Has Sacha Baron Cohen finally gone too far??? The funnyman is being sued by Richelle Olson, Executive Director of Desert Valley Charities, who claims he left her crippled after an incident at a Bingo hall in 2007.
According to Olson, she was told Bruno was a celebrity and would be making an appearance at a charity bingo game she held for the elderly in Palmdale, CA.
However, she wasn’t too pleased when she saw Bruno, describing him as an “extreme, outrageous, offensive caricature of a gay man dressed in sexually revealing clothing with an Austrian accent…” who used “vulgar and offensive language.”
That’s when she tried to take the mic away from him and a “physical struggle ensued” in which Sacha caused her to fall to the floor after he “offensively touched, pushed and battered” her. Then she said three cameramen and others rushed the stage and the “defendants attacked [her] for a period of one to five minutes to intentionally create a dramatic emotional response … while [they] recorded her humiliation and embarrassment.”
WTF?!?! Somehow that sounds highly exaggerated.
Also, the Bruno movie wasn’t being filmed in 2007, lady!
Olson was then taken into another room where she started “sobbing uncontrollably” and then became unconscious “falling forward onto the thinly covered concrete slab, passing out and causing her to hit her head.”
She had to be rushed to the hospital and received a “diagnosis of two brain bleeds”, which she claims has confined her to a wheelchair and walker ever since.
Olson and her hubby are now $uing for unspecified damages. Oh, and they’re also suing for loss of marital relations. You know, cuz not being able to walk stops you from having sex?
We smell someone seeking a lot of money. And it stinks!
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