“I can’t even stand near her” – Phillies ‘Karen’ finally unmasked after viral home run ball snatch left a father and son humiliated before a roaring crowd, as co-workers now step forward exposing disturbing behavior that had colleagues keeping their distance long before the stadium scandal

What began as a baseball fairytale collapsed into one of the most humiliating viral moments of the year. A father’s clean catch, his son’s glowing smile, and then – the snatch that turned joy into shame. The woman in white, branded the Phillies ‘Karen,’ became a national villain as millions replayed the clip of her demanding what wasn’t hers. But now, with her identity revealed, the backlash has taken a darker turn. Co-workers have begun speaking out, painting a picture of someone whose unsettling behavior wasn’t confined to the ballpark. From office outbursts to a reputation that left colleagues avoiding her, the story is spiraling far beyond sports.

What does this mean for her now that her private life has collided so brutally with her public shame? The full expose is waiting – read the details of her downfall and the stunning revelations that followed.

The woman, Feltwell and his son. (Phillies Tailgate/X)

A father who was berated by a woman in a Philadelphia Phillies jersey into giving up a home run ball he had grabbed for his son is speaking out about the incident as online sleuths continue to search in vain for the identity of “Phillies Karen.”

“I pretty much just wanted her to go away,” Drew Feltwell told NBC Philadelphia on Saturday, a day after his altercation with the woman went viral. “Still in disbelief that she walked down there like that.”

Feltwell, a Phillies fan from New Jersey who now lives in West Palm Beach, Fla., was attending Friday night’s game between the Phillies and Miami Marlins in Miami with his wife and two children.

The Feltwell family was in the left field stands in the top of the fourth inning when Phillies center fielder Harrison Bader hit a home run that landed near them.

What happened next?

Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Harrison Bader celebrates with his teammates after hitting a home run against the Miami Marlins on Friday in Miami. (Sam Navarro/Imagn Images)

Several fans, including Feltwell, scrambled to find the ball. He grabbed it, turned, walked back to his family, gave his son Lincoln the ball and hugged him.

“I was already ecstatic, like I got Bader’s home run ball, and I get to put it in my son’s glove,” Feltwell recalled. “Then here she comes.”

Video posted to social media shows a woman approach Feltwell as he was embracing his son and angrily demand that he give her the ball.

“She just screamed in my ear, ‘That’s my ball,’ like, super loud,” Feltwell said. “I jumped out of my skin and I was like, you know, like ‘Why are you here?’ You know, ‘Go away.’”

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After a brief exchange, Feltwell took the ball from his son’s mitt and gave it to her, and she walked away.

Feltwell said he decided to diffuse the situation before it could escalate.

“I had a fork in the road: either do something I was probably going to regret or be dad and show him how to deescalate the situation,” Feltwell said. “So that’s where I went.”

“I wasn’t very happy that we had to give it to her,” added Lincoln, who will soon turn 10. “But we can’t win.”

A representative for the Marlins gave Lincoln a goodie bag.

After the game, Bader met with the family and gave Lincoln a signed bat.

The altercation over the home run ball came just days after a similar scene unfolded at the U.S. Open. In that incident, a man was caught on video taking a hat from a tennis player who was trying to give it to a young fan.

The man later apologized, saying he believed the player had intended to give the cap to him for his sons, who had earlier asked for autographs.

“That mistaken belief made me reach out instinctively,” Piotr Szczerek wrote in a post on Facebook. “Today I know I did something that looked like deliberately taking a souvenir from a child. That was not my intention, but it does not change the fact that I hurt the boy and disappointed the fans.”

The search for ‘Phillies Karen’

The woman in the Phillies jersey who berated Feltwell was later booed. (Phillies Tailgate/X)

Meanwhile, the woman in the Phillies jersey was also seen on video confronting another man seated in the left field stands who had apparently heckled her for her behavior.

She was booed when she returned to her seat and promptly flipped off the entire section.

As the video of her initial confrontation with Feltwell spread across social media over the weekend, online sleuths searching for the real “Phillies Karen” apparently misidentified her.

“OK everyone, I’m NOT the crazy Philly Mom (but I sure would love to be as thin as she is and move as fast),” Cheryl Richardson-Wagner posted on Facebook Saturday. “And I’m a Red Sox fan!”

Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader reacts after striking out in his next at-bat. (Marta Lavandier/AP)

A New Jersey school district also issued a statement saying that the woman in question does not work for the school system.

“The woman identified on social media as ‘Phillies Karen’ is not, and has never been an employee of the Hammonton Public Schools located in Hammonton, New Jersey,” the district said in a Facebook post. “Anyone who works for our school district, attended as a student or lives in our community would obviously have caught the ball bare-handed in the first place, avoiding this entire situation!”

Even if she is eventually identified, Feltwell said he does not expect an apology or for her to return the ball.

“That would still be hard for her to do,” Feltwell said.

The incident got so much attention across social media that it was even parodied by the Savannah Bananas, the Georgia exhibition baseball team, who likened the woman to the Grinch in a skit at a game over the weekend.