(CNN) Thanks to a total stranger, a now-jobless Los Angeles waitress will be able to pay her rent.

Shujana Anthony loved being a waitress, she told CNN. But restaurants across the nation have been hard hit by the shutdowns mandated because of the coronavirus pandemic, and Anthony was among the vast numbers who are now without a paycheck.

In a CNN interview that aired Wednesday, Anthony said she didn't know how she was going to pay the $1,100 rent for her apartment.

"I don't know," she said. "When you're scared, you don't see nothing but fear."

Enter Tami Vaughn, a viewer in Illinois, who reached out to CNN to offer to pay Anthony's rent.

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