Ms. Pat Settles It 2x14

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

2. - All rise.

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

4. So 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?

10. "Looney Tunes?"

11. - Y'all may have started this mess,

12. but I'm going to settle it.

13. - I love this courtroom!

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

15. - She's never cracked open a law book,

16. but she will literally throw a book at you.

17. All rise for the honorable Ms. Pat.

18. - Y'all can have a seat.

19. You know what they say?

20. If you ain't got nothing good to say,

21. you shouldn't say shit at all.

22. - Well, I'm gonna shut up.

23. - Me too.

24. - Bailiff, start bailiffing.

25. - This is the case of Carter versus Jessup.

26. You may now enter.

27. - Plaintiff Quinn Carter is suing her ex, Charlotte,

28. for $1,953.80, claiming she keyed the crap out of her whip

29. and left it looking awful AF.

30. Defendant Charlotte Jessup says she

31. absolutely wrecked the ride.

32. But she ain't paying unless Quinn reconciles

33. their rocky relationship.

34. —whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you God?

35. - Yes.

36. - Before we get started, I just want to let y'all know

37. that this is a jury of my peers.

38. I'm gonna use them however I want to use them.

39. I'm not sure how they passed a lie detector test to get here,

40. but they're here.

41. All right, Miss Carter, can you tell us why we're here today?

42. - Your Honor, I'm here to sue my crazy ex girlfriend

43. for $1,953.80

44. for taking a knife and scratching up my car.

45. - What?

46. - Yeah, the whole thing, the hood, everything.

47. - So she pretty much stabbed your car to death?

48. - Correct.

49. And so, it's not any car.

50. I've had this car for a very long time.

51. It's a 330i BMW, sports package, pristine condition.

52. That was my baby.

53. - OK, Charlotte, can you tell me your side of the story?

54. - Your Honor, I did knife her car.

55. - What?

56. - But I felt like she disrespected me.

57. We have been together since COVID.

58. And all of a sudden, she wanted to start going out on her own,

59. doing her own thing, like I didn't matter anymore.

60. So I needed to show her that if she don't want to love me,

61. then she ain't going to have to love her car either.

62. - What? - What?

63. - Your Honor, can I say something?

64. - Yeah.

65. - I had that car sitting at my mama's house,

66. right, for, like, two years during COVID

67. because I wasn't using it.

68. I was using her car.

69. And I had just started driving my car again.

70. I spent, like, $6,000 getting that car up and running again.

71. She really didn't like the fact that

72. I was driving my own car again.

73. - No, I didn't.

74. For over four years, we have been together all the time.

75. And all of a sudden, now that she got her own car,

76. she's going over here, she's going over there,

77. she's going to her friends, she's staying out all night.

78. She didn't need to be doing all that.

79. - Wait, wait.

80. She was going places in her car?

81. - Yeah, going places in the car.

82. Can you believe that?

83. Going places in the car, without me in her car.

84. - What in the Tyler Perry is going on?

85. - Are you trying to say I'm crazy?

86. - Well, are you trying to say you're not?

87. - How long have you been with this fool?

88. I mean, how long you been—

89. - At that time, it was about four years.

90. - Was you ever happy in the relationship with her?

91. - Absolutely, Your Honor.

92. Yeah, we had some great times.

93. - It was COVID.

94. That COVID coochie hit different.

95. - Can I please see the car?

96. - Yes, ma'am.

97. - Do you have a picture of it?

98. - Yes, ma'am.

99. Your Honor, I had just gotten it fixed like four days

100. before she took a knife to it.

101. - Oh—oh, my God.

102. - Ironically, she drew a penis.

103. - How much did it cost to fix the car?

104. - I got an estimate of $1,953.80.

105. - She also did damages to me.

106. Like, she trashed my whole apartment.

107. - Do you have proof?

108. - Well, I have pictures.

109. - Because right now, she got you looking real, real crazy.

110. Oh, my God.

111. You did that?

112. - What? - Now, Quinn.

113. - You done stand up here acting all innocent.

114. You had us feeling bad for you.

115. - Quinn, did you do this?

116. - I did, but it's my stuff. I cleaned it up.

117. - No, she didn't. I had to clean the shit up.

118. - Don't be cussin' in my Christian courtroom.

119. - I'm sorry, Ms. Pat.

120. - And this happened when, Quinn?

121. - After she keyed my car.

122. - Now, hold on.

123. Charlotte, she cleaned it up.

124. So why don't you think you owe her anything?

125. - I don't owe her anything because

126. we're going to figure it out once we're back together.

127. - Bananas.

128. - Why are you dealing with her?

129. - I broke up with her, Your Honor.

130. I got all my stuff out the house.

131. I left.

132. I didn't leave anything.

133. I took the vegetables.

134. I took everything.

135. - Oh, she's going to come back.

136. - I'm not going to lie.

137. This is white man behavior.

138. That's concerning.

139. - When was the last time y'all together, sexual?

140. - A couple of months ago.

141. - So you keep feeding the beast.

142. - I need my money, Your Honor.

143. - All right, I'm going to go to my jury.

144. - I think both of y'all toxic.

145. I just think that one got tired of being toxic first.

146. - Well, listen, I just want to know this.

147. Pat, how are you gonna judge them?

148. Didn't you drive a car through your baby daddy house?

149. - I'm the judge. And shut the hell up.

150. Any final remarks?

151. - I know you're upset with me.

152. And I know you're saying right now that you

153. don't want to be with me.

154. And that is fine.

155. I'll give you a couple of years to think

156. about it, you know, do what you need to do,

157. get it all out your system.

158. And then we'll work on it.

159. - No!

160. - If you hear this, run.

161. Ree, ree, ree, ree.

162. - OK, I've come to my final decision.

163. And I'm going to settle this once and for all.

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

165. The plaintiff, Quinn Carter.

166. - Thank you, Ms. Pat.

167. - Charlotte, you're ordered to pay Quinn $1,953.80

168. and stay the hell away from her.

169. You can't force nobody to be with you.

170. And you just had sex with her two months ago.

171. You can't lick the beast—

172. —and then try to get rid of the beast, OK?

173. - You're right. You're right. You're right.

174. - I just settled it.

175. Now get out of my courtroom.

176. - You are dismissed.

177. - Y'all ever had something toxic like this happen

178. in your relationship before? - What?

179. That's why I ain't say nothing,

180. because I just slashed somebody's tires.

181. - I'm suing my sister Dominique Greer

182. for not paying me rent for five months.

183. - Everybody know family don't pay.

184. When I sold crack, I didn't even sell to my sister

185. because she never had $10.

186. She had $9.

187. - How you doing, TS?

188. - Hey, Ms. Pat.

189. - I heard you over there singing

190. the gospel this morning.

191. - Oh, yes, anytime the check clear,

192. you got to give God some praise.

193. - Hey.

194. - Bailiff, start bailiffing.

195. - This is the case of Holliday versus Greer.

196. You may now enter.

197. - Plaintiff Lashon Holliday is suing her sister, Dominique,

198. for $5,000 in rent that she says Dominique owes after

199. living in her rental without paying for five months.

200. Defendant Dominique Greer says the whole place was busted

201. to begin with and there's no way

202. she's going to pay for her sister's broke down house.

203. —the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

204. so help you God? - I do.

205. - All right, Lashon, tell us why we're here today.

206. - I'm suing my sister, Dominique Greer,

207. for $5,000 for not paying me rent for five months.

208. And it's a family house that I bought.

209. And then I offered my sister a place to stay because,

210. you know, she has my niece.

211. And I'm like, you can stay there.

212. - So you don't give no family discount or nothing?

213. - Oh, that is a discount.

214. It's a five-bedroom house. - Oh.

215. - Ooh. - Hello.

216. - OK. - Nice.

217. - OK, Dominique, what's your story?

218. - Well, Slumlord Holliday over here, that's the story.

219. Basically, she wanted me to pay rent.

220. And the house wasn't to par.

221. The appliances stopped working after a little bit.

222. The basement would flood every time there was a rainstorm.

223. There's always a leak in the ceiling.

224. I stopped paying her rent.

225. At this point, I don't owe her a rusty nickel.

226. - Oh.

227. - What deal did you and your sister make?

228. - So the deal we made was that she agreed

229. to pay the $1,000 a month.

230. And I left all the appliances there.

231. And she knew that once the appliances stopped

232. working, that she will be responsible for either

233. buying another appliance or getting them repaired.

234. - OK, do you have a lease agreement with her?

235. - I do. - Bailiff.

236. - Yes, Judge.

237. So the thing was, had I rented the house to anyone else,

238. the appliances wouldn't have been included.

239. So they would have been able to bring their own appliances.

240. - Mm-hmm, and how long was this lease for?

241. - It was for a year.

242. - So it says here that you agreed to fix any appliances.

243. - I didn't really look at the lease like that.

244. - Right.

245. - I didn't look at it like a real lease.

246. That's my sister.

247. - Was you taking advantage because, you know,

248. you was renting the house to your sister?

249. - I think she—no, I think she took my kindness for weakness.

250. - Uh-uh.

251. - I'm just shocked that you would

252. leave behind bad appliances.

253. - They weren't bad appliances.

254. The appliance had been there for maybe five years.

255. It was still good.

256. Had she bought new appliances when she moved,

257. she could have took those to her new house.

258. - So let me ask you this, Dominique.

259. Why did you stop paying rent?

260. - So I stopped paying rent because, in the beginning,

261. there was issues.

262. And she kept saying, well, I'm going to fix it.

263. I'm going to fix it. She never showed up.

264. Then she started coming to Chicago often.

265. And when she come, guess where she stayed?

266. - Where? - With me.

267. - Ooh.

268. - Did you offer her to stay? - No, no, no.

269. - Or did she just come because she the homeowner?

270. - Because she the homeowner.

271. - You wasn't paying rent no way.

272. So why not?

273. - Why would I go anywhere else

274. but a five-bedroom house that I own?

275. - Well, ma'am, let's be honest now.

276. If I were renting that damn house,

277. you wouldn't come stay with me. - Say it again.

278. - Yeah. - But see, that's the problem.

279. You stopped acting like a landlord.

280. And she stopped acting like a tenant.

281. Y'all started acting like family.

282. And that's where the whole thing got fuzzy at.

283. And everybody know family don't pay.

284. - Right. - When I sold crack,

285. I didn't even sell to my sister because she never had $10.

286. She had $9.

287. You just don't do business with your family.

288. - I agree.

289. - If you ain't paying, you got to go.

290. - I'd have put her right out.

291. You should have been on the streets of Chiraq, baby.

292. - Ooh.

293. - OK, jury, what y'all think about this?

294. - I don't like when siblings get into it,

295. you know what I'm saying?

296. - Would Brandy rent you her house?

297. - Rent it to me?

298. Nah, she would let me stay in it, though.

299. - Would you tear it up?

300. - I would.

301. - Anything you want to say, Lashon,

302. before I make my decision?

303. - I just want her to pay me my $5,000.

304. - And Dominique?

305. - I don't owe her a rusty nickel.

306. - I like how that nickel been rusty all day.

307. Dominique, the house wasn't in good shape.

308. You knew it wasn't in good shape when you got there.

309. But you moved in anyway.

310. That's your sister.

311. And I hate to say this, but I bet you if you would have

312. rented that house from somebody white,

313. you would have never owed them $5,000.

314. - Facts.

315. - You'd have paid it on time every time.

316. You'd have bought your own refrigerator

317. and stove when you got there.

318. But I'm not just going to drag her.

319. I'm going to drag you, too.

320. I wouldn't rent my house to my mammy

321. because once they get in there, the first thing

322. they going to say is, blood is thicker than water.

323. Not according to Bank of America, bitch.

324. I've come to my final decision.

325. And I'm going to settle this once and for all.

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

327. The plaintiff, Lashon.

328. Dominique, you need to pay her $5,000

329. for not paying your rent on time.

330. You got a sister who went out of her way for you,

331. and she love you.

332. Now, y'all get your ass out of here.

333. It's been settled.

334. - You are dismissed.

335. - Family's only for Thanksgivings.

336. - Not even then, sometimes.

337. - Family is only for funerals.

338. - How many stars were this hotel?

339. - Three out of 10.

340. - Three out of 10?

341. You ain't never been nowhere, little girl.

342. It's only five stars. - Oh.

343. - Three of 10.

344. - She was rating a album.

345. - I know some of y'all jurors had to call out from work.

346. But I don't know how you call out from work when you famous.

347. - I just told everybody I'll be back later.

348. - I was talking to Ts.

349. - Thank you.

350. - Come on, Bailiff, start bailiffing.

351. - This is the case of Futrell versus Green.

352. You may now enter.

353. - Plaintiff Jada Futrell is suing her friend Aleysha

354. for $275, the amount she still owes after hiring

355. Jada to work for her on the road.

356. - You better work.

357. - Defendant Aleysha Green says they never agreed

358. to that kind of payment.

359. So if it ain't in writing, they shouldn't be fighting.

360. - All right, Jada, tell me why we're here today.

361. - I'm suing my former friend/manager, Aleysha Green,

362. for the $275 extra that she promised me

363. for our out-of-town work trip.

364. The only reason why I went is because she promised me

365. an extra $200 on top of my pay and $75 for gas reimbursement.

366. And she didn't reimburse me or pay the extra $200.

367. - And do you have any written proof that she promised

368. to give you the extra $275?

369. - No written proof.

370. - Oh. - OK.

371. - So Aleysha, tell me why you're here.

372. - I'm here because I invited a so-called friend

373. on an out-of-town work trip.

374. I did not promise her everything

375. that she talkin' about.

376. I said I would slide a little extra,

377. you know, on top, you know, for her coming,

378. because it was last minute.

379. I told Jada that she would get $22.50 an hour

380. and I would tack on extra three hours.

381. I wasn't going to give it to her just straight-out cash.

382. It's been a feud in the house ever since.

383. And I'm ready, Ms. Pat, for you to settle it.

384. - So y'all live together? - We don't.

385. But she calls my aunt "Auntie." So—

386. - 'Cause she my auntie, too.

387. - Ooh.

388. - OK, Jada, what type of work y'all do?

389. - We're brand ambassadors.

390. - What is that?

391. - It's basically like marketing.

392. If you have a brand that you need represented,

393. we come and interact with people

394. so that it stays on your mind so you spend money on it.

395. - So basically, you like Vanna White.

396. - Right.

397. - Aleysha, so what do you usually

398. provide for your out-of-town employees?

399. - I provide hotel, I provide food, and I provide gas.

400. - OK.

401. - Did you get all of that?

402. - No, ma'am.

403. - Oh.

404. - Ms. Pat, I couldn't even believe this.

405. After slaving away all day, when we walked into the hotel,

406. she points to the couch.

407. I'm like, why you pointing to the couch for?

408. I'm finna sleep in this bed.

409. She only had one bed, Your Honor.

410. - You need a bed for your hair alone.

411. - Was it a pullout couch?

412. - It was a pullout bed, mm-hmm.

413. - Do you have any proof of what this room looked like?

414. - Yes.

415. - Oh.

416. That's just a pullout couch?

417. - Ridiculous.

418. And that's her bed. - Oh.

419. - Oh. - Nice and comfortable.

420. - I mean—

421. - When my auntie went on the trip,

422. my auntie said that Aleysha paid

423. for her own queen-size bed.

424. She had a robe.

425. Breakfast was paid for.

426. She said she was living in luxury.

427. I get there, I said,

428. Auntie, look where she got me sleeping at.

429. Auntie said, Aleysha should be ashamed of herself.

430. She would have never did me like that.

431. I said, mm, I know.

432. - How many stars were this hotel?

433. - Three out of 10. - Three out of 10?

434. You ain't never been nowhere, little girl.

435. It's only five stars. - Oh.

436. - Three out of 10.

437. - She was rating a album.

438. - We was waiting on that one, baby.

439. - She ain't been nowhere talking about some 10 star.

440. OK, who is the aunt in the middle of this situation?

441. - My auntie is here.

442. I would like to bring my auntie as a witness.

443. - Come on, Auntie. - Come on, Auntie.

444. - Ain't no way in hell them two slept in no bed together.

445. - That's what I'm trying to tell you, Ms. Pat.

446. - Speak on it, Auntie. Yes.

447. - Jada Futrell is suing her friend Aleysha for $275,

448. the amount she says Aleysha promised as a bonus

449. for a last-minute work trip.

450. Aleysha says she paid her auntie-stealing friend

451. everything she's owed.

452. Ms. Pat is about to settle it.

453. - Auntie, please state your name.

454. - Adrian Ballard.

455. - And what's your relationship to both of these people?

456. - I am Aleysha's real aunt.

457. And that's my adopted niece, Jada.

458. - So, Auntie, you go on these trips with Aleysha, right?

459. - Yes.

460. - And on these trips with Aleysha,

461. does she ever give you extra money?

462. - Yes, she'll give me $100 for just traveling.

463. And then she'll give me an extra $150 if I help her.

464. - If you help her, OK.

465. Did you tell Jada that she will probably

466. make more than $200 more?

467. - I did.

468. I encouraged Jada to go ahead on and go with her.

469. - OK, do you and her usually sleep in the bed together?

470. - Most of the time, she get two beds in my room when I go.

471. - Ooh.

472. - Speak on it.

473. - You tellin' on your niece, Auntie.

474. - That's my niece, and I love her.

475. But I ain't going to stand up here and lie in your face.

476. I'm going to tell you the truth.

477. - Speak on it, Auntie!

478. - Right, Auntie.

479. - I like Auntie, baby. - I like her too.

480. - So, Aleysha, Auntie up here telling on you.

481. Are you going to fire her?

482. - I can't even do that to Auntie.

483. She going to cuss me out if I do that.

484. - Oh, my God, I love you, Auntie!

485. - Thank you, Auntie. - You are so welcome.

486. - Yes, she hit me with the Patti LaBelle.

487. - All right, what you think, Chris?

488. - Ms. Pat and I travel a lot for live podcasts.

489. I share a room a lot of times.

490. I roll with it because we're at different positions.

491. Sometimes you have to sleep in the pullout couch

492. because that's your situation.

493. - All right, so any last words before I make this decision?

494. - I feel like I have paid Jada everything she's owed.

495. I feel like because her and my auntie

496. had talked about how she travels,

497. she expected the same thing.

498. - And let me hear your last word.

499. - Aleysha owes me $275.

500. She could do it cash, debit, credit,

501. Cash App, Zelle, PayPal.

502. She owe me my money. And I wants my money.

503. - OK, all right.

504. Jada, you worked hard.

505. - Yes, Ms. Pat.

506. - You slept on a sofa.

507. Nothing was wrong with that. You're not fat.

508. You're 20 years old. Auntie need a bed.

509. She done went through menopause.

510. Her bones is losing densi—

511. - Density. - Yeah, what he just said.

512. She gotta rock before she get up, so she not couch material.

513. All right, I've come to my final decision.

514. And I'm going to settle this once and for all.

515. And I'm ruling in the favor of...

516. The defendant, Aleysha Green.

517. - Oh, my goodness. - Oh, wow.

518. - Therefore, Jada, you get zero.

519. And you get zero because you did not have a contract.

520. You're going to have to eat this $275

521. and sleep on a let-out bed for a little bit longer.

522. - Oh.

523. - All right, I settled it. Y'all dismissed. Bye-bye.

524. - You are dismissed.

525. - I love Auntie, though. - I don't know.

526. I heard you was working with something dangerous, boy.

527. - Not Auntie seen the tape!

528. - Auntie ain't took that much vitamin D.

529. - Oh, my God! Baby.

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

531. Is there anything else that demon child damaged?

532. - I found decapitated dolls.

533. - If you don't keep DJ in line,

534. he's going to be like Ray J in 15 years.

535. You sold a vintage Chanel bag?

536. How much you get for it? - $1,000 for it.

537. - What? - That's like a $8,000 bag.

538. - Oh. - Not, oh.

539. She talkin' about "oh."

540. - He wrecked my car and got the insurance money.

541. - I can't help it if I'm blessed

542. and highly favored by the Lord.

543. - What type of drugs you on?

544. - I'm not on no drugs.

545. - Sir, even the white lady don't believe you.