reporter: tom ralston's feelings about joanna lee can only be described as complex. a picture on april 15th, 2013 captures her by ralston's side after the second boston marathon bomb erupted. rupturing his eardrums and shooting him with shrapnel. >> the woman stayed with me the entire time until emts arrived. reporter: a stark contrast from the figure who appeared in suffolk county court. on friday the woman pleaded guilty taking nearly $40,000 in benefits including 8 grand from the one fund after falsely claiming she received a brain attack. sentence three years of probation and ordered her to pay back all the money. >> it's like a crazy cry. it's like stupid. reporter: leigh rushed out of court with nothing to say no apology for the more than $9,000 she received from a gofundme page or the roughly 1800 from a middle school fundraiser. >> i think an apology is important. i think she realizes what she did was wrong. she's just have to live with that. she owes me nothing. . reporter: leigh's attorney says she will pay that money immediately using her mother's retireme