After a customer with cancer was deliberately caught coughing at a Pier 1 store, Debra Hunter is now known as the “Pier 1 Cough”. However, it has been called much worse. And now she pays for her actions.

Hunter has been charged with assault and faces up to 60 days in prison. When she heard her next sentence in a week, she tried tirelessly to explain exactly what had happened at that moment.

While she deeply regrets what she did, she wants to know that there were moments leading up to the event that weren’t necessarily caught on film and she was just trying to protect her kids from a stranger she filmed.

In a letter to the judge, she said: “Admittedly, I was immediately outraged and demanded that this client stop photographing my children.” “In the middle of that moment, I overreacted in an overprotective way, which eventually led to my revenge on this stranger, the victim. The very unfortunate split-second reaction cost my family a lot of money.”

In her letter, Hunter provided 23 pages of insults and threats she received as a result of the accident — everything from being called “disgusting” to being told to “take her own life,” among many other things.

Hunter says life is very different now than it used to be. But it’s not just her life being turned upside down, and neither is her child — and she says they don’t deserve it. “My kids shouldn’t have to pay the price for my mistake,” she said. “Each of my three kids has almost every friend they’ve lost.”

“She went from ‘that mother’ to ‘that woman,'” she said, adding that she realizes that “this can all sound like a bad script.

To wrap it up, she left the judge (and the general public) with this thought: “I often wonder what it would be like if the worst moments of each of us were reduced as flawed human beings to a short music video for worldwide.” to see and judge.”

Stay tuned for what’s happening at the upcoming hearing, but to find out what happened on Pier 1 that day, check out the video below.

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