Laravel stripe and Webhooks

I'm completely stumped and google searching isn't helping at all. I have recently started with stripe webhooks and I have followed the Laravel documentation but still having troubles. First I added the stripe url to exempt it from csrf protection

use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Exceptions;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;

return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withRouting(
        web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php',
        commands: __DIR__.'/../routes/console.php',
        health: '/up',
    )
    ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {

        $middleware->validateCsrfTokens(except:['stripe_event_webhook','stripe/*']);
    })
    ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions) {
        //
    })->create();

Then I created an event listener to listen to stripe event with the payload

<?php

namespace App\Listeners;

use Laravel\Cashier\Events\WebhookReceived;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;


class StripeEventListener
{
    /**
     * Create the event listener.
     */
//    public function __construct()
//    {
//        //
//    }

    /**
     * Handle the event.
     */
    public function handle(WebhookReceived $event): void
    {
        if ($event->payload['type'] === "checkout.session.completed")
        {
            $website = auth()->user()->websites->where('payment_completed',False)->last();
            $website->payment_completed = True;
            $website->save();
//            Mail::to(auth()->user())->send( new \App\Mail\PaymentConfirmation());
//            Mail::to('[email protected]')->send( new \App\Mail\PurchaseMade());
        }

    }
}

In stripe cli it hits the endpoint payment_intent.created gives 200 OK, payment_intent.succeeded 200OK, charge.succeeded 200 OK. checkout.session.completed 500 server error I don't know what else to do tried so many times even on a live production server it hits the correct endpoint but ntn even in my routes file I tried

Route::post('/stripe_event_webhook', [StripeEventHandlerController::class, 'event']);

Then I tried creating a controller

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail;
use Laravel\Cashier\Events\WebhookReceived;

class StripeEventHandlerController extends Controller
{
    public function event  (Request $request)
    {
            WebhookReceived::dispatch($request);
	}
}

But it still doesn't work as you can see in the event listener I want to update some records in the database but the record stays the same which tell me the event isn't being dispatched or the listener not working can someone help really hit a hard roadblock?