Ms. Pat Settles It 2x12

1. - Hey, y'all, I'm Ms. Pat.

2. - All rise.

3. - And I know the inside of a courtroom.

4. Because I'm a convicted felon with a GED.

5. Now I'm sitting on this side of the bench.

6. Y'all are killing me.

7. These are real cases with real money on the line.

8. And I'm bringing my own friends to court as my jury.

9. - What is this, "Looney Tunes"?

10. - Y'all may have started this mess, but I'm gonna settle it.

11. - I love this courtroom!

12. - All rise, 'cause court is back in session.

13. - All rise for the realest judge on TV.

14. Just don't look at her hair, lashes, and nails.

15. The beautiful Ms. Pat!

16. - Thank y'all. Please have a seat.

17. - Hey, Ms. Pat.

18. I swear tell the truth, the whole truth,

19. and nothing but the truth.

20. - You're not a plaintiff. You're a juror.

21. - Oh.

22. - This is when Black people don't

23. realize they ain't in trouble.

24. All right, Bailiff. Start bailiffing.

25. - This is the case of Demory versus Demory.

26. You may now enter.

27. - Plaintiff Christamy Demory is suing her mom, Tammy,

28. for $560.63 for setting up a utility bill

29. in Christamy's name when she was just five,

30. ruining her credit.

31. Defendant Tammy Demory says forget the financial credit.

32. Her daughter should give her credit for the sacrifices

33. she made as a single mother.

34. This mom-daughter relationship has gone to collections.

35. - You swear to tell the whole truth

36. and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

37. - Yes. - I do.

38. - So before we get started, I just want to let you know

39. that this is a jury of my peers.

40. I get to use them however I want to, OK?

41. And they are the boot and I'm the heel.

42. And we're gonna flatten this shit out today.

43. OK, Christamy, tell me why you're here today.

44. - I'm here today because I'm suing my mother for $560.63

45. for putting a gas and electric bill in my name

46. when I was five years old.

47. - Mm, mm, mm.

48. - So how did you find out your mother

49. put this bill in your name?

50. - I found out because I went to get my first apartment.

51. And when I went to put my deposit, it was super high.

52. So that's when I found out that she had put

53. gas and electric in my name.

54. - So what did you say to her?

55. - I want my money.

56. - Ooh.

57. - OK, Tammy, tell me about this electric bill

58. you put in your daughter's name.

59. - At the time, I was a divorced single mother,

60. and I was struggling.

61. Her father wasn't helping.

62. And my kids needed some heat, food, and everything,

63. so I had to do that.

64. - I got all my bills in my kids' name too, Tammy.

65. them kids.

66. - How many kids you got?

67. - I have three, Your Honor.

68. - How many daddies?

69. - Three, Your Honor. - Damn.

70. - You're keeping 'em up.

71. - Keep trying, man.

72. Keep trying.

73. - Oh, yeah, she got other kids.

74. She could have put it in my older sister name.

75. - Miss Tammy, do you have bills in your other kids name also?

76. - No, I don't.

77. It was just that bill.

78. - She had the best credit?

79. - She—

80. - This was over 25 years ago.

81. - Right.

82. - So why didn't you never pay it off or at least

83. told your daughter, hey, girl, let me tell you

84. about this bill I had to accumulate for you

85. when you was five years old?

86. - I truthfully forgot all about that bill.

87. So many years had passed, that when she did get her apartment

88. after living with me forever and decide to get it

89. in her name, that's when it came out.

90. And I was like, oh, my God, you're right.

91. And I apologized to her.

92. I said, you're right. I'm sorry.

93. - It's my credit.

94. It's not about the sorry.

95. - So you want to talk about credit?

96. She owe me so much money, it's sad.

97. - How much she owe you?

98. - Well, for starters, I had to file bankruptcy.

99. - Why? - Because everything was hers—

100. a Jaguar and an Expedition.

101. - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

102. You paid for two cars? - Mm.

103. - After all these years, you got the audacity

104. to sue your mom for $563?

105. - The nerve.

106. - $560 ain't that much money.

107. I mean, that's way cheaper than your mama Jheri curl.

108. - You know what?

109. I told you about that Jheri curl before you came here?

110. - Oh, wow.

111. - One thing I never did— and I was a hoodrat—

112. I never put bills in my kid's name

113. because I wanted my kids to mess up their own credit.

114. I never stooped that low.

115. Now, I did put crack in my kids' drawers.

116. - OK.

117. - But I never, in my life, put a bill in their name.

118. All right, I'm gonna go to my jury.

119. Come on, Carmen.

120. - Girl, your momma went easy on you.

121. By the time my kids were 30,

122. they had warrants in three states.

123. - You know, you only get one mother.

124. - That's right. - You know what I'm saying?

125. And she was there for you when nobody else was.

126. So you don't come up here and court, especially on TV,

127. and embarrass your mother and talk about the times

128. when she was down and out over $500.

129. - I knew by that blonde wig you wasn't shit.

130. - Karlous!

131. - I didn't mean to say that out loud.

132. - What have this done to your relationship, Christamy?

133. - She all right, but I just want

134. this lady to give me my money.

135. - Uh-uh. That's your mama.

136. - This lady?

137. - I just want my mother to give me my money,

138. and then we can be cool again.

139. - Tammy, what you got to say?

140. - This lady not giving her a damn dime.

141. - It's something about daughters

142. that you have to go through hell to get along with.

143. And I think it's because that person is so much like you.

144. I had my first child at 14, and I'm telling you,

145. she still hold grudges.

146. So I've come to my final decision.

147. I'm ruling in favor of...

148. The plaintiff, Christamy.

149. Tammy, you're ordered to pay Christamy $560.63.

150. And the reason why is because you did

151. put that bill in her name.

152. It messed up her credit as a baby.

153. It set you behind in life.

154. So you give her her little funky ass $560—

155. - Funky ass dollars.

156. Little cheap ass.

157. - So she can no longer throw this up in your face.

158. So when she needs you, you know what to say.

159. - Hell no.

160. - And I hope this make you happy.

161. - Thank you. - I really do.

162. - I'm delighted.

163. - She gonna forever tell you to go to hell,

164. even when she in hell.

165. I just settled it.

166. Get your ass out of my courtroom.

167. Thank you. Thank you.

168. - You are dismissed.

169. - Ms. Pat, you got it wrong.

170. - What?

171. - A regular deposit about $200,

172. but you gave her the whole $560.

173. Everybody got to pay a deposit.

174. - Well, let me say this to you.

175. Her blonde has grew out. She need a retouch.

176. So let her have that.

177. - Yeah, that's gonna be $200 right there.

178. - Yeah. - And you didn't see her nails.

179. She need a fill in too.

180. - Nobody believes you're rich

181. when you drive a 2012 Honda Civic.

182. - How you know she drive a 2012 Honda Civic?

183. - She do got Civic written all over her face.

184. - What kind of car do you drive?

185. - A Honda Civic. - I knew it.

186. - Oh, my God.

187. - Hey, jury.

188. I like how y'all are looking today.

189. - Thank you.

190. - You look good, too.

191. - And I know when you looking that good, you up to no good.

192. - Which one of us?

193. - All of you.

194. - OK.

195. - Bailiff, start bailiffing.

196. - This is the case of Francis versus Williams.

197. You may now enter.

198. - Plaintiff Leon Francis is suing his niece, Tabatha,

199. for $1,600, the amount he loaned her to rent a yacht

200. on her birthday weekend.

201. But defendant Tabatha Williams says Leon is blowing hot air.

202. 'Cause she covered plenty of tabs that weekend,

203. and he didn't pay her back once.

204. In her opinion, Unc is trippin'

205. and he isn't getting a dime.

206. - You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,

207. and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

208. - I do. - Yes.

209. - All right, Leon, tell us why we're here today.

210. - Well, I'm here today to sue my niece Tabatha for $1,600

211. for a three-hour yacht excursion we took down to Miami

212. for her birthday celebration.

213. She wanted to do it big for the 'Gram, take pictures.

214. We get to the boat, and she don't have her wallet.

215. - OK.

216. - She don't got a food stamp card.

217. She don't got a credit card.

218. She don't got nothing to pay for it.

219. She told me, I'm gonna rent a yacht.

220. And she never told me that I was going to be

221. responsible for the yacht.

222. So not to embarrass her in front of her friends

223. on her birthday, I just went ahead and swiped my card.

224. And I told her, you know, make sure you pay me back.

225. She said, I got you.

226. I'm gonna CashApp you back.

227. Well, Your Honor, it's been eight months.

228. I haven't got my money back, so that's why we're here.

229. - So y'all are uncle and niece? - Yeah.

230. - Y'all look the same age.

231. - I have an older brother, and he had her at a young age.

232. So me and her basically grew up more than just niece and uncle.

233. We're like best friends.

234. - And, Tabatha, tell me about this yacht

235. you had your uncle rent

236. that you want to put all on the 'Gram.

237. - Your Honor, the whole time in Miami, I paid for his meals

238. several times, four or five times.

239. And whenever the bill hit the table, he like,

240. I'm gonna CashApp you later.

241. I'm gonna CashApp you later, and he never does.

242. - So, Tabatha, you don't feel like

243. you owe your uncle anything when you planned this trip?

244. - No, I don't owe him nothing and I'm not paying him back.

245. - So how much do you think he owe you

246. from not CashApping you?

247. - Whatever he paid for that boat,

248. it don't even add up to the amount of times,

249. like, that he done said, I'm gonna CashApp you back, so—

250. - How many times do you remember paying for stuff

251. and he not paying it back?

252. - Probably about four or five times.

253. - Do you have proof of any of this?

254. - Yeah, I have proof.

255. - OK, well, let me see it then.

256. OK.

257. - Oh, wow.

258. - So a bottle, $250.

259. Sections, $400.

260. - For Instagram?

261. - What are y'all doing out here?

262. - Oh, my God.

263. - What?

264. Tomahawk steak, $299.

265. Lemon drops, $32.

266. Were you here for this receipt? - Yes, ma'am. I do.

267. - OK, you was here, so you ate some of this—

268. - I just feel like— - Whoa.

269. - Yes, ma'am.

270. - You ate some of this— this Tomahawk steak.

271. - Y'all paying $350 at the club for a bottle?

272. - Yeah, we do. - Child, you got big titties.

273. You could have slid that in, honey.

274. - She ain't using 'em right.

275. - Right.

276. - So, Leon, tell me about this story—

277. how you got to the yacht, and how you were surprised

278. that you had to pay for everything.

279. - So we on the boat, we having a good time,

280. got bottles, drinking, you know, turning up.

281. She's standing up in front of everybody and say,

282. well, the spirits told me, my mind,

283. that I don't got to pay you back.

284. I'm like, hold on, stop the boat.

285. What you mean? It's $1,600.

286. I can't afford this.

287. - Spirits in your head?

288. - They tell me to do the right thing with what I feel is best.

289. - This some voodoo shit.

290. - It's amazing these spirits tell her

291. what she wants to hear.

292. - I guess Miss Cleo is in her head.

293. Can you please ask the spirit, why in the hell

294. did she invite this man on this trip and make him use his card?

295. - 'Cause she wanted him to pay.

296. - I wanted him to pay.

297. I had to get him back. I had to get him back.

298. - Can I see pictures from this trip?

299. - Absolutely.

300. - Oh, you look good with your shirt off.

301. - Damn. - OK.

302. OK.

303. Baby, you weren't playing with 'em.

304. Got that little shirt off.

305. - I was trying to stunt, you know.

306. - I mean, I don't pose like that with my uncle,

307. but anyway—

308. - I got that same outfit, girl.

309. I be bent over just like that.

310. Ha! You turned up.

311. - Look at you, acting like you got some money.

312. - That was a front. I ain't got it like that.

313. I got three kids, Ms. Pat, so I can't even flex.

314. So that's why I need my $1,600 back.

315. - Why did you go on this yacht trip

316. if you knew you didn't have no money?

317. - The thing is, she pressured me.

318. She called me nonstop—

319. you got to come, you got to come.

320. She just felt that if I wasn't there,

321. it wasn't gonna go smooth.

322. - OK, jury, what you got for me?

323. - Tab need to pay the tab.

324. - Same.

325. - God said, quit playing with them spirits

326. or you gonna be over the next yacht

327. on the other side, honey.

328. - Nobody believes you're rich when

329. you drive a 2012 Honda Civic.

330. - How do you know she drive a 2012 Honda Civic?

331. - She do got Civic written all over her face.

332. - What kind of car do you drive?

333. - A Honda Civic. - I knew it.

334. - Oh, my God.

335. - The spirits are in the building today!

336. - I love my jury.

337. Anything that you want to say before I make this decision?

338. - I just want to say that before I could even

339. pay her back, this took place.

340. So how can I pay you back when I never even got my money back?

341. - Do you think y'all even?

342. We definitely not even.

343. - Any final words, sweetheart?

344. - He's my uncle.

345. I love him, but I had to teach him a lesson

346. about running off on bills.

347. And I hope he learned from it.

348. - So the spirit told me to tell y'all

349. I've come to my final decision and I'm ready to settle it.

350. I'm ruling in favor of...

351. neither one of y'all.

352. Don't nobody get shit.

353. Because you always making her CashApp you

354. and never pay her back, and you done tricked your uncle.

355. So you guys are even in my book.

356. And with that said, I just settled it.

357. - And always remember, the spirit can't save you.

358. - 'Cause it can't swim. Now, get out.

359. - You are dismissed.

360. - Thank you.

361. - I don't know why people always got to flex.

362. People in this world got to stop trying

363. to be like everybody else.

364. That's why I don't post.

365. - Pat, you don't even post your D-wagon.

366. - Oh, shut the up.

367. - The spirit led you in the wrong direction just then.

368. - Hey, Carmen, that was good snitching.

369. - Good snitching.

370. - You kicked me out the house before Christmas.

371. - What? - I had to prove a point.

372. - I would've grabbed you by your ear

373. and flew you like a kite.

374. - Oh!

375. - All right, y'all. I can't lie.

376. I'm gonna be honest with you 'cause I'm an honest person.

377. Chris, anybody ever told you you shaped like a Lemonhead?

378. - I'm very top heavy.

379. - Let's get this party started, Bailiff.

380. - This is the case of Burgess versus Johnson.

381. You may now enter.

382. - Plaintiff Collin Johnson is suing his girlfriend

383. for $3,400 in back rent that she was supposed to cover

384. when she finished beauty school.

385. She made the grade, but he never got paid.

386. Defendant Shavonna Burgess says Collin

387. gave her the boot before she could

388. make money in her new career.

389. She needs time with new skills to pay the bills.

390. - You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,

391. and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

392. - Mm-hmm.

393. - Collin, tell me why you're here.

394. - I'm here to sue my girl, Shavonna,

395. for $3,402 for back rent.

396. - Who your girl?

397. - Ooh. - Mm.

398. - You my girl. You know that.

399. - Do you know?

400. - I'm here to sue her for $3,400

401. for back rent for five months.

402. Now, when she went to school,

403. I told her I would take care of the bills.

404. And when she got out of school, she had

405. told me that she was going to go half with me on rent.

406. She ain't stick to her word.

407. I'm behind on rent, so I'm here for my bread.

408. - Mm.

409. - Shavonna, tell me your side of the story.

410. - Collin is clearly delusional, as you can see.

411. This was all his idea.

412. He said that he was going to pay for the bills

413. while I went to cosmetology school.

414. But as soon as I got out of school,

415. now you want your money.

416. And that didn't even give me a chance to get a job,

417. to work, to get clients, to do nothing,

418. and now he want to sue me.

419. I'm not giving him shit. I'm don't owe him nothing.

420. - And how long was y'all together?

421. - Four years. - Four years?

422. - We're still together. - No, we're not.

423. - She just live in a different house now.

424. - You're out your mind.

425. - I can relate to that somehow. - Yeah.

426. - When you kicked me out the house before Christmas—

427. - What? Christmas?

428. - That's when we broke up.

429. - I was being petty when I did that.

430. But you know what I'm saying— I had to prove a point.

431. - Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

432. - I had a point to prove. - Wait a minute, Collin.

433. Baby, had you put me out at Christmas time,

434. I'd have flew you like a kite.

435. Let me ask you this.

436. After she graduated from cosmetology school,

437. did you give her time to pay the rent?

438. Was it 30 days? 90 days?

439. 120 days? - It was about a month.

440. - Let me ask you something.

441. How much was the rent, Collin?

442. - So, now, when we moved into the apartment,

443. the rent was $875.

444. - You wanted her to split $875?

445. - See, see, y'all not listening.

446. I did not—yo, I didn't—

447. I didn't want her to split—

448. I did not want her to split the $875.

449. She decided, she was like, I don't want to just

450. be sitting here, not doing nothing.

451. - Did you have any customers?

452. - Within a week, I got a job. - Sure enough.

453. - But I had a little bit of clients.

454. I had, like, two—

455. I got my pay stub of what I was getting.

456. Could you show her this, please?

457. - Her check was $147.

458. - $147. - But let me tell you—

459. - I had, like, two clients.

460. - That ain't nothing but Chick-fil-A money.

461. You say y'all still together.

462. - We is still together.

463. - No, you're not, Collin.

464. - I was her man last night.

465. Ooh!

466. - Now we are talking.

467. - Oh, lord.

468. - Collin Johnson is suing his girlfriend, Shavonna Burgess,

469. for $3,400 for the rent he says she's promised

470. to pay him back when she was done with beauty school.

471. Shavonna says he kicked her out of the apartment

472. before she could even make enough money to pay him back.

473. It's time for Ms. Pat to settle it.

474. - I was her man last night.

475. Ooh!

476. - Now we are talking.

477. - Oh, lord.

478. - I do see your hair smashed on the side, and I—

479. - No, it is not! Girl, why would you say that?

480. - I don't blame you, Shavonna. He here.

481. Why not use him? - Right.

482. - OK. Let me ask you this.

483. How did y'all even start dating?

484. - All right, so me and her used to date in high school.

485. You know what I'm saying?

486. That was my high school sweetheart.

487. We was together for about almost a year, you know?

488. So 2020, I seen her on the block one day,

489. going to the bus stop, I got her number.

490. - And didn't offer me no ride.

491. - Man.

492. - Other than that, we got together.

493. We started kicking it.

494. Two months later, I moved her into the crib

495. and that was that.

496. And we've been together ever since.

497. This is the thing. I'm a godly man.

498. You know what I'm saying?

499. So what I did was I said, you know—

500. - Collin, stop. - It's like this—

501. - Because you— - OK, stop.

502. I heard enough of this.

503. All y'all do is—be quiet.

504. - I'm sorry. - All y'all do is argue.

505. - It's not like that all the time.

506. - You know, and I hate— that's what—

507. you're the reason why I don't date little men.

508. You have literally been—

509. shut up.

510. You have literally been talking since you walked in here.

511. I've heard enough of this.

512. TS Madison, tell me what you think, baby.

513. - Stop having sex with him.

514. There's no matter how good it is,

515. 'cause sometimes them short men know how to get in those—

516. those right places, those crevices.

517. - Them creases.

518. - If you really are not gonna, you know,

519. go half on the rent with him—

520. - I'm not giving him nothing.

521. - But that means coochie too.

522. - Any last words you want to say about your case?

523. - I mean, I love her.

524. And if she decide to pay me and we go back of half on the rent,

525. she could move back in.

526. - Shavonna, any final remarks?

527. - Yeah. I mean, I don't owe you nothing.

528. You said you was gonna do that.

529. If you feel like a simp, oh, well.

530. I don't know what to tell you. - But do you love me?

531. - No.

532. - She told me she loved me, man.

533. She told me she— and I love her too.

534. - I barely told you I loved you while we was together.

535. - I loved her too. And a man messed up.

536. - Look here, Tom and Jerry.

537. I'm going to make a decision.

538. I done had enough of this rat shit.

539. I'm ruling in favor...

540. of the defendant.

541. You owe Collin zero.

542. Nothing.

543. - All right.

544. Fair is fair.

545. - Collin, you threw her out,

546. and that's not how you do in a relationship.

547. A relationship is built more on just paying half the rent.

548. 'Cause I can tell y'all love each other.

549. Don't you love him?

550. - No.

551. - You can't even stop smiling,

552. you love this little man so much.

553. All right, I settled it.

554. Y'all get the hell out of my courtroom.

555. Good lord, Tom and Jerry.

556. - Bye. - Bye.

557. What was that shoe you wear, 2 and 1/2?

558. - A 9 and 1/2. - Yeah, right.

559. - 9 and 1/2 with the tissue in.

560. - Next time on "Ms. Pat Settles It"...

561. - I seen posts on social media

562. of her with all my new clothes on.

563. - It's abandoned property. - What happened was—

564. - When Black people say, "What happened was,"

565. you about to tell a lie.

566. - She didn't return the wig back to me in the same fashion

567. that I gave it to her. - Wait a minute.

568. Wait a whole damn minute. - Wait a minute.

569. - I'm telling you, this is what you get hit by a car in.

570. Do you still have the car?

571. - I sold the car. - Oh!

572. - How you sell something that ain't yours?

573. - For how much? - $2,500.

574. - Boy, what is wrong with you?