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UPDATE: Remember the “Karen Goes Crazy” video 2 yrs ago where a woman lunged at a Nigerian woman at a mall and then began to break down? Remember how the internet made fun of this woman and called her a "Karen" endlessly? It turns out that Abigail Elphick is disabled. She was the woman who broke down crying after trying to lunge at Ijeoma Ekenta. She lives at a complex with residents who are intellectually and developmentally impaired. At the time the internet blamed the incident on the color of the other woman's skin, and pushed to have Abigail Elphick fired from her internship. Following the incident, Ijeoma Ekenta raised $104,000 in a GoFundMe, to "sue the Karen," blaming the incident on the color of her skin. In July that lawsuit began and this week new documents show that Elphick actually is disabled with a history of mental problems. “I was horrified,” Tom Toronto, president of Bergen County’s United Way, which runs the residential complex where Elphick lives, said. "It was a total loss of perspective and proportion. She has a disorder. She has anxiety. She had a meltdown. Then the world we live in took over and it became something entirely different than what it actually was.” he continued. Seeing a 1-minute-long video doesn't always tell the full story. Stop labelling people without knowing their history.