Akira Montague, right, embraces her attorney Robonetta Jones following the announcement of the jury's verdict during a civil trial on November 10 in a Durham County courtroom. Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service/Getty Images

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, won a $1.75 million judgment 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 wh

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