As more details leak about the lawsuit facing Lady Gaga, the woman suing the pop star for almost $400,000 in unpaid overtime - which allegedly included her being forced to sleep with the singer - was not only her former personal assistant, but also former best friend, the singer revealed recently.
According to a report in The Sun, when Gaga showed up for the deposition in the lawsuit last August, the former assistant, Jennifer O'Neill, told the court she was forced to sleep with her in bed as she didn't like sleeping 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. I had no privacy," she claimed.
Court records obtained by the New York Post, show that the 26-year-old singer, real name Stefani Germanotta, arrived at the deposition with her claws out, unleashing a deluge of pointed insults at the woman she claimed was her former best friend since she 'was 19-years-old. O'Neill is "f--king hood rat" for "suing me for money she didn't earn," Said Gaga.
O'Neill is currently suing Gaga for failing to compensate her for $393,000 in overtime from 2009 to 2011, plus damages.
"She's just-she thinks she's just like the queen of the universe," Lady Gaga fumed about O'Neill. "And you know what, she didn't want to be a slave to one, because in my work and what I do, I'm the queen of the universe every day."
Gaga wasn't about to sit there quietly and take the lawsuit on the chin. She complained bitterly about being dragged into the legal fight, letting her former friend know what she was in for.
"Are you going to stare at me like a witch this whole time-honestly?" she told O'Neill. "Because this is going to be a long f--king day that you brought me here."
"If you're going to ask me questions for the next five hours, I am going to tell you exactly what f--king happened, so that the judge can read on this transcript exactly what's going on," Gaga told one of O'Neill's lawyers.Â
Gaga was especially enraged with the lawsuit, as she claimed that O'Neill had agreed to an annual salary of $75,000 that didn't include overtime, but did include a taste of the entertainer's regal lifestyle. O'Neill alleges that Gaga failed to pay her for 7,168 hours of overtime above her standard eight-hour work day.
"This whole case is bulls--t and you know it," Gaga said. Adding that her former assistant, "knew exactly what she was getting into, and she knew there was no overtime."
Under cross-examination, the "Bad Romance" singer admitted she didn't know anything about New York Labor codes, and explained her reason for not paying overtime was "based on a bubbly, good heart."
"I'm quite wonderful to everybody that works for me, and I am completely aghast to what a disgusting human being that you have become to sue me like this," Gaga told O'Neill, before detailing the laundry list of perks that came with the exclusive job.