Conan O’Brien gets some of his best material from his studio audience. (Really, no one is safe — just see his three parents and web secrets bits for proof.) During one show, in an off-the-cuff remark, the host calls out a woman holding a sign that reads, “You were my 3rd crush.”

“What the hell?” Conan asks. “Why so specific? Now the whole night, I will be thinking, ‘Who were the other two?'”

The woman reveals who took the top spots in her young, pining heart: “David Bowie in Labyrinth” and George Michael. Then, while sitting next to her husband, she holds up another sign that reads, “I’ll Leave My Husband For You… (and it’s our anniversary).”

Conan responds, “That’s got to be the shittiest thing I’ve ever seen.”

It’s a funny exchange—one that you can view here:

And that would have been that. Of course, it’s the internet, where these moments live on.

After the show aired, viewers questioned her fidelity and called her terrible names, while others thought the incident was fake.

Recently, “the audience lady with a crush on Conan” shared what really happened that day. In Reddit’s Funny community, redditor glossanddirt, whose real name is Shannon Ray, told her story.

On her beauty blog Gloss and Dirt, Ray writes about what it’s like to be an online spectacle. She says it feels “car crash-y.”

“The comments keep getting worse,” she writes. “Because, of course, I can’t stop reading them.”

She posts her “favorite” hateful comments about her on YouTube. Here are a couple:

In response, Ray simply writes, “Haters gonna hate.”

Still, despite the backlash, she shares that being in the audience was a great experience and Conan even hugged her and her husband after the show.

Redditors offered words of support.

And her husband will forever have these words from Conan: