Gossip: Lady Gaga

In a face-to-face showdown in court last week, Lady Gaga went into full diva mode as she angrily denounced a former assistant who wants thousands of hours in back overtime pay. Jennifer O’Neill claims she is owed over $390,000, after working “virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week” for the pop superstar. She alleges she was even forced to share a bed with Gaga, to keep her company and be available if the singer needed anything, from tampons to tea. But in a fiery deposition last week, Gaga called O’Neill a “f---ing hood rat…suing me for money that she didn’t earn.” The singer said her former assistant, whom she paid an annual salary of $75,000, “didn’t want to be a slave, because in my work and what I do, I’m the queen of the universe every day.”

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