Luca Bruno, AP
Yesterday, (Feb. 1), it was revealed that Lady Gaga is in a legal battle with her former personal assistant, Jennifer O'Neill, who is suing Gaga for unpaid overtime hours.
During Gaga's six-hour deposition on the case, Gaga had called O'Neill "a f--king hood rat who is suing me for money that she did not earn."
O'Neill is asking for $380,000 for 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime during the singer's 2010 Monster Ball tour.
But Gaga says that O'Neill failed to help with her most basic requests, including leaving Gaga to carry her own luggage.
"[O'Neill] would only open a couple of bags, and it was very stressful for me because then again on my off days I couldn't really have a day off because, you know, I weigh 115 pounds, and I was trying to move these huge, big luggage all by myself in the room, and I did it all the time -- by the way, she was asleep until 12:00 most of the time, so I was very often waking up and moving my own luggage and doing s--t by myself, and it was -- it was a problem that I had," Gaga shares.
Now, new details are emerging from O'Neill's side of the story. During her own deposition via The New York Post, O'Neill claims she was never given her own hotel room while on tour and Gaga forced her to share the same bed as her.
"I was by her side virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week," O'Neill says. "That includes sleeping in the same bed with her. Because she did not sleep alone. Unlike anybody else on that tour, I did not have my own hotel room. I was not asked if I wanted my own hotel room."
O'Neill continues, "I had no privacy, no chance to talk to any family, no chance to talk to any friends, no chance to have sex if I wanted to have sex. There was no chance to do anything."
Gaga expected O'Neill to be on call at all times, according to O'Neill, and she recalls many instances when Gaga's requests were extreme.
One time, O'Neill says she was having dinner with a friend in the hotel while Gaga was upstairs editing the "Born This Way" video in a hotel room with director, Nick Knight.
"But she [Gaga] called me and she said that she needed her food to be heated up in the hotel," O'Neill alleges. "So she needed me to come and personally heat up her food while she was looking at the video."
Other jobs included switching the DVDs Gaga was watching throughout the night, O'Neill claims.
During Gaga's deposition, the singer seemed to completely disagree with O'Neill's complaints.
"She deserves every dollar of her $75,000 that we agreed to," she said. "But she does not deserve a penny more."
In a tweet just posted this morning, Feb. 2, Gaga addressed the situation on her Twitter page.
"Everyone's headlines need an updating. "former assistant" is actually "my best friend from NY since I was 19." Painful stuff." she wrote.
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