(CNN) — Strangers rallied behind Akira Montague when she took on a woman in court whom she had believed was one of her closest friends.

Montague, a 27-year-old mother of two, this month against the TikTok influencer Brenay Kennard, after accusing Kennard of having an affair with Montague’s now-former husband, Tim Montague. A North Carolina jury found Kennard liable for alienation of affection and criminal conversation — that is, for breaking up the marriage and having adulterous sex — in one of the six remaining states where a spouse can still sue a third party for violating a marriage.

Akira Montague’s supporters celebrated the verdict in the courtroom, with some of them in tears as the plaintiff embraced the influencer Regina Terry, who posts as BlackGoddess82 on TikTok.

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