
A woman on TikTok has been keeping a public record of her debt repayments after she ended up having to pay over £20,000 in legal fees. The worst part was that the company which took her to court didn’t even exist.
TikToker Gemma Martin explains that she was sued for defamation by a company based in the United Arab Emirates in 2025. She believes that the lawsuit was part of a targeted effort to suppress a BBC article of which she was a big part. However, despite the allegations made by the company against her, it turned out that they didn’t technically exist, well, in a legal sense at least.