Grieving mother of Samantha Miller – who was killed by ‘drunk driver’ on her wedding night – claims she’s being ‘BULLIED’ as she posts emotional videos, after suing her son-in-law and challenging validity of their marriage

The mother of a bride who was killed by a 'drunk driver' on her wedding day has revealed she is being 'bullied' in one of the many emotional videos shared on social media.

Samantha Miller, 34, was fatally shot on April 28 while celebrating her wedding at Folly Beach in South Carolina.

Jamie Lee Komoroski, 26, was three times over the legal limit when she crashed her car into Miller's golf cart, which was carrying the bride and her new husband, Aric Hutchinson, 36. He was seriously injured.

The bride's mother, Lisa Miller, is now taking legal action against her son-in-law, accusing him of it fraud and “dishonoring my daughter” amid a row over insurance claims and cash settlements.

Amid the legal wrangling, Miller posted a video of herself tearfully talking about dealing with the loss of her daughter on Facebook, along with a video meme on TikTok in which she claimed she was being “bullied.”

“I never thought that if I ever lost my child, I would be bullied on top of the grief I'm suffering,” Miller said in the caption of the TikTok video posted Tuesday.

Her words accompanied an image of a man walking alone through a scenic mountainous area, accompanied by an excerpt from The Pretenders' I'll Stand By You.

She added a quote at the top: “Dear Sam, in the end people will judge you. Don't live your life trying to impress others. Live your life and impress yourself.”

In an earlier post, Miller filmed herself crying in her car outside a Dollar Store as she described to her followers how a trip to the dentist's office had triggered her grief out of nowhere.

“I thought some of you might want to better understand that sometimes grief is not something you can control,” Miller said as she cried.

'Sometimes nothing has to happen and it just happens to you. I was just having lunch with my daughter Mandi and we were laughing and having a great time and joking with the staff.

“And it was so weird, I forget how it came up. I just thought, “Did I show you what happened at the dentist yesterday and they made me fill out a bunch of paperwork to catch up…”

“It ended up on the emergency contact, Sam and Sam's number, and it didn't have the greatest effect on me at the time.

“But I had to erase the name, and I was just telling Mandi about it… and I had a hard time explaining it to Mandi because it was almost like it was taking her back.”

Miller added that she doesn't have to “feel ashamed for crying or sharing her grief” because “one little thing can just send you into the depths'.

“The positive thing and the reason why I come here and make myself vulnerable is that crying is therapeutic, crying is letting go… it's okay to feel your emotions, especially in a situation like this, but really all the time,” she said.

Miller is taking Hutchinson to court after initially praising him after her daughter's death and describing him as a son to her.

She has asked the court to remove him as executor of his late wife's estate, even claiming that their marriage was not legitimate. At stake is a potentially large legal settlement.

In October, two South Carolina beach bars settled a wrongful death lawsuit alleging Komoroski became “visibly intoxicated” before crashing. The Crab Shack and The Drop In Bar & Deli were among several companies that agreed to settle with Miller's estate, as was Progressive Northern Insurance Co.

The settlement amounts have not been made public and a judge has yet to approve the death certificate request.

Lisa Miller challenged the settlements in court by filing, then withdrawing, then refiling a motion to intervene in the case.

She told The Post and Courier she felt Hutchinson sidelined her from the payout, which is not what her daughter would have wanted.

“Aric and I had agreed several times that Sam would want us to do everything together since we are the two most important people in her life,” she said.

'I never wanted to question the validity of the marriage. I never wanted to shame Sam.

“But I feel like Aric is dishonoring my daughter by going against her wishes.”

Miller's attorney, Jerry Meehan, accused Hutchinson of trying to orchestrate a “cash grab,” which was carried out in secret.

He said Lisa Miller's main reason for intervening is to protect Samantha Miller's estate and all her rightful heirs.

He added: “There is no reason to rush the process and shroud it in secrecy. This was a money theft from minute one.'

Meehan has taken advantage of the fact that the marriage was not registered until May 1 – three days after the wedding – and that the license was signed by Hutchinson's aunt and uncle while he remained in hospital.

His aunt said she had known the man and woman for 36 years: Hutchinson was 36, but Miller was only 34 when she died.

The uncle and aunt also falsely said that the couple lived together after their marriage.

Hutchinson said he was saddened by the turn of events and had offered his mother-in-law half the money.

His attorneys called the marriage certificate questions “a distraction” and called Lisa Miller's motion to intervene “morally questionable” and “legally without merit.”

He insisted she was not cut out.

“Aric has been more than generous to Lisa Miller – offering her half the money – and she has repaid him by threatening to frivolously question the validity of his marriage to Sam,” Hutchinson's lawyer said. , Patrick Wooten.

“One would hope that Mrs. Miller would have too much respect for her own daughter for that.”

He has offered his mother-in-law half of the damages in the wrongful death lawsuit on the condition that she stops fighting legal disputes over their marriage.

“Aric made this settlement offer not because Lisa Miller had a valid legal claim – she does not – but rather because he is a generous person and would naturally prefer to avoid painful, public lawsuits over the validity of his marriage to Sam. .'