Woman who received death threats after being accused of stealing phone charger on plane hits back

A woman accused of stealing a man’s Apple charger onboard a delayed flight has snapped back after he ‘lost his mind’ over the situation.

The TikTok algorithm is tricky to pin down - sometimes the weirdest videos can go viral while others that you pour your blood, sweat and tears into die a death on the platform.

One clip doing the rounds at the minute is from Eddie Orellano, known by his username @rcrelated1.

His video containing a confrontation with an alleged thief has clocked up 16.4 million views and has divided users regarding who is in the right.

The one minute, 17 second clip saw Eddie complaining a woman had stolen his Apple charger on a delayed flight to Miami.

“Excuse me, did you take my charger?” he asked the blonde passenger, who replied: "Yeah, I have it.”

A back-and-forth argument ensued, with Eddie claiming he would make the lady ‘famous on TikTok’.

Days on from the viral video, the woman has been named as Vanessa Clover and has taken to her own account to tell her side of the story.

Vanessa, known by her username @vanessa.clover, opened her video by jokingly referring to herself as the so-called ‘Charger Thief’.

She then revealed she hadn’t actually planned on making a video response to Eddie’s accusations but had been ‘bombarded with harassment’ and ‘flooded with death threats’ after it was posted.

The flyer claimed she’d found the root of all this drama - the infamous Apple charger - on the floor of an emptying aircraft.

Vanessa alleged she’d picked the discarded wire up and tried to give it to a nearby air attendant.

When the stewardess reportedly told the woman she wasn’t allowed to be liable for a passenger’s lost possession, Vanessa shoved it in her bag to deal with later.

Several hours after the incident, she came face-to-face with the viral content creator Eddie.

When confronted about the charger, Vanessa acknowledged that she had it somewhere, but was instead focused on the flight delay and her sick cat.

“It was honestly the last thing on my mind, I didn’t even know where this charger was,” she reported to her 10,700 followers during the confessional video.

“What I was worried about was my 20lb cat that had just thrown up at the gate.”

Vanessa alleged she wanted to find a seat to set her ill pet and luggage down before giving the charger back to Eddie.

“And also get a little bit of distance from this very aggressive, erratic man.

“I could’ve acted more gracefully,” she continued, referring to her ‘chill the f**k out’ response she issued after being asked why she took the charger in the first place.

“You're ridiculous. You stole something without asking [...] That is stealing, absolutely, you're giving it back because I caught you,” Eddie replied in the viral video.

Vanessa went on: “Like this man, I totally acted imperfectly as most of us do under duress.”

Vanessa refutes claims that Eddie decided not to ‘press charges’ against her for the theft.

“That never happened,” she said.

“What the video neglects to show is him losing his mind well after I’d given back the charger… he continues yelling at everyone and the crew.

“His reaction was outsized from the start and I’m sure he’ll make another video clinging on to his five minutes of fame refusing and denying everything that I’ve said here."

Vanessa concluded the four-minute clip by announcing she doesn’t ‘condone stealing’ and that she should have acted with more ‘patience and compassion’ regarding the item.

“I don't wish any ill upon this man and I hope that we can all kind of move on with our lives here,” she added.

Eddie has yet to issue a response to Vanessa’s video which was posted to social media over a day ago.

LADbible Group has previously contacted Eddie and Vanessa for a comment.