She has thousands of fans now on Instagram and has been telling her story widely since the song inspired even more remixes.

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“I’m just overwhelmed, and I’m such a humble person [that] to see that, it’s just amazing to me. I’m just glad that it’s something so positive. Other people keep telling me I helped them so much, but they don’t understand — nobody understands — how much this video going viral like this is helping me, because it’s giving me the breakthrough I so badly needed for so long,” Charles told BuzzFeed News.

She told the outlet that she was previously doing sex work and was not able to care for her young son, who stayed with her parents. But when the video went viral, Charles' family tried to find her to tell her that she was internet famous. Charles is now staying with her family again and slowly putting things back together.

“The only reason that the GoFundMe and those platforms were created were people were begging to donate to her. Once I made her Instagram, people were flooding in, saying, ‘How can I bless her? She just blessed my day so much. She just made my day.’ So the only reason it was created was so people could bless her life,” her sister Andrea told BuzzFeed.

Charles went on to explain that it was the support and well wishes that surprised her, especially the messages she has received from people who said the song was inspiring and was getting them through this difficult time.

But she is most happy to be reunited with her family, Charles said.

“It’s a lot of tears from everybody. They just want to be reassured. Because it’s been ongoing with me battling this addiction — this has been, like, six years — and they just want to be reassured that this is no more, that they don’t have to stress about where I may be. They never want me to be in the streets ever again and live that lifestyle,” Charles explained.

When asked by HuffPost why she thought the video went viral, she said the underlying message was important to so many people, especially now. She said Locklear had detained her unfairly, and she wanted him to know that.

“Know your rights. Understand your rights. Don’t take the route I took every time, but I knew my rights. In that moment I was pissed but I just wanted him to understand that he really couldn’t detain me. And also, everyone should just loosen up a bit more. Do a little dance. Everything doesn’t have to be so serious,” she said.

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