Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's former live-in nanny Simonette DaCosta carries a lot of grief towards her former employees, enough to file a lawsuit against them at a Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday, New York Daily News reported.
DaCosta filed a lawsuit against the couple, claiming that Carey had her on call and working 100 hours a week without pay.
Apparently, she was hired in October 2013 by Carey and her now estranged husband Canon as a nanny for their twins Monroe and Moroccan. However, she ended up working endless hours for Carey without getting paid for all the overtime work, and not all of them were even for the twins.
The suit stated that DaCosta "attended to their needs not only at home, but also during Ms. Carey's travels for her global concerts and appearances." It also revealed that while the former nanny was paid $6,000 to $7,200 a month for taking care of the twins, she did not receive any compensation for all that extra work.
The lawsuit went on to describe that DaCosta was often unable to eat, sleep or take a break, and her lawyer Eli Freedberg also stated, "She was on call 24 hours a day. She was always at their beck and call."
DaCosta was eventually fired in January of last year, and apparently the reason was because she showed the children "too much affection," according to The Wrap.
The lawsuit detailed that DaCosta was often called by Carey even when it was the middle of the night to "attend to her every demand, spontaneous or otherwise." Sometimes she was called in to take care of the twins or that she update Carey on the status of her children.
That eventually changed as the lawsuit reveals, "Ms. Carey terminated Plaintiff after berating her for exhibiting too much affection towards her children."
While some claimed it seemed too much for DaCosta to be fired over that, Carey herself did admit that she was quick to fire her nannies, according to Daily Mail.
During an interview held February last year on Power 105.6 with The Breakfast Club, Carey stated, "Unfortunately, I have to have nannies, but I'm very hands on. I fire nannies like this," and then snapped her fingers.
"And I hate doing it," she added, "but I have to if they try to make themselves more important in the baby's mind than me."
Cannon had a similar opinion. During a separate interview a few months later, he said, "The minute the child chooses to go to the nanny before they go to the mom. I would have an issue with that too."
DaCosta is said to be owed about $100,000 in damages and she also claimed that there were other caretakers that had issues with the couple as well.
When asked for a comment, Carey's camp told NYDailyNews, "We don't comment on frivolous lawsuits."
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