Woman in Viral Walmart Child Meltdown Says Girl Needed Help and Isn’t a Spoiled Brat

The woman who tried to calm the little girl down by throwing food at a Walmart in a viral video says the child was scared because she was separated from her family.

Amber Gregory is the woman in the black outfit who appears on the scene and tries to calm the little girl down as she throws and stomps on packages of food in the store.

Many people thought she was the child’s mother, but Amber says she was just trying to help the little girl… because she reminded her of her own child.

Amber says the girl in the video isn’t a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum…instead, she says the girl is a non-verbal, neurodivergent child who was afraid of being alone in the store.

She says the girl couldn’t talk, say her name or communicate what was going on… and clearly needed help, but most of the adults in the store just pulled out their phones to record the incident instead of trying to help.

Amber says she has a neurodivergent child, so she has experience and training with this kind of thing… and she says people who say the girl needs a spanking as punishment have no idea what they’re talking about.

She says the people at the store were more interested in highlighting the girl’s behavior than doing anything positive to help… and she says no one was there to try to help the child’s family find.

Amber says the situation lasted about 45 minutes to an hour… and the video doesn’t show the girl trying to hurt herself with the broken glass from the bottles she smashed. She also says the child’s parent eventually showed up and they had to run away from all the people who had their phones recording.

She says the police were called, but it is unclear whether a report was filed.