Faye Greene (44) was handed a neighborhood service order final week after earlier pleading responsible to legal injury and assault.
Antrim Magistrates Court docket, sitting in Ballymena, was instructed she punched the lady within the face after smashing her means inside.
When a reporter known as to her house, Greene stated she had seen purple and was sorry for what she had executed.
She added: “I discovered the day earlier than Christmas Eve that my husband was having an affair with a girl who had been my good friend for over 10 years.
“I had met her two days earlier than for Christmas drinks, simply the 2 of us.
“Little did I do know (she was having an affair).
“I simply noticed purple. I knew she was a bit promiscuous, however you don’t count on a good friend to do this to you.”
Greene was ordered to finish 120 hours of neighborhood service and should pay out £495 for the patio doorways she smashed.
“I simply need this throughout and executed with. I’ve by no means been in hassle in my life,” she stated.
“I’m elevating two youngsters by myself with no assist in anyway, working full time, and now I’ve to try to discover the time for this neighborhood service.
“In fact I remorse what occurred and I’m remorseful. I believed she was a good friend. It’s completely disgusting.
“She would’ve been spherical right here on a regular basis for events, get-togethers… she would’ve stayed over as nicely.
“I used to be made out to be a lunatic in court docket, however that’s not precisely the way it occurred.”
Greene, from Dicksons Hill in Ballymena, was driving in her automotive when she noticed her husband’s car on the property on the afternoon on December 24.
Prosecutors stated she smashed the home windows of the patio doorways with a golf membership earlier than she “got here into the home and punched the sufferer to the face”.
However defence solicitor Emma McCann instructed the court docket: “The golf membership was mendacity on the trail when she approached the property, moderately than coming armed with it.
“She was extraordinarily upset for her and her kids. She noticed her husband’s automotive there and, in a second of impulsivity, bought out and went to the property — one thing she totally regrets.”
Greene, who the court docket was instructed receives no baby upkeep, stated she simply needed to maneuver on.
She added: “My husband and I have been collectively for 13 years and married for 10.
“This was devastating for me — my life has been turned the wrong way up. It’s executed now anyway. I simply wish to transfer on. The children have been by way of sufficient.”
Antrim Magistrates Court docket was instructed a probation officer had assessed Greene as posing a low danger of reoffending and really helpful the case be handled by means of a neighborhood service order.
A choose imposed a two-year restraining order on prime of the neighborhood service.