Teddi Mellencamp is being sued by a former employee for alleged racial discrimination and totally different claims.
Internet web page Six can affirm that the girl, El Salvador immigrant Julia Umana, filed her lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday — the day after Mellencamp underwent emergency thoughts surgical process to have tumors eradicated.
Umana outlined in her submitting, which was obtained by TMZ, that she beforehand labored as a live-in nanny and housekeeper for the “Precise Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, who allegedly dealt with her additional poorly than one other celebrity boss.
Umana claimed Mellencamp abused her power, created a hostile work setting and engaged in racial discrimination and harassment together with working her to the bone and shorting her paychecks.
Umana extra alleged Mellencamp dealt with her worse than totally different household staffers who had been white and that she spoke to her in a nasty tone that Umana in no way seen Mellencamp use with the white staff.
In actuality, Umana claimed Mellencamp even accused her of stealing and committing theft — regardless that there have been cameras within the dwelling — nonetheless in no way did the equivalent to a white, blond employee.
Umana went on to allege that the earlier Bravolebrity moreover mocked her for speaking Spanish. (Mellencamp’s estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave, was born in Colombia.)
Umana claimed she lastly had ample and instructed Mellencamp she was going to resign, which allegedly prompted the latter to pressure the earlier to work three, 12-hour shifts for which she was allegedly paid $325.
When Umana complained regarding the amount, she was allegedly fired.
In response to Umana, she was wrongfully terminated and is owed unpaid wages.
She is trying to find higher than $2 million in damages.
Reps for Mellencamp didn’t immediately reply to Internet web page Six’s request for comment.
The accountability coach — who shares daughter Slate, 12, son Cruz, 10, daughter Dove, 4, and stepdaughter Isabella, 16, with Arroyave — is coping with an uphill effectively being battle.
“For the ultimate quite a few weeks I’ve been dealing with excessive and debilitating issues,” she instructed her Instagram followers Wednesday.
“Yesterday the ache was unbearable and required hospitalization. After a CT scan and MRI, medical docs found quite a few tumors on my thoughts, which they contemplate have been rising for a minimum of 6 months.”
Mellencamp, 43, continued, “Two of the tumors shall be surgically eradicated proper now – The remaining smaller tumors shall be dealt with by the use of radiation at a later date.”
After the operation, Arroyave, 47, instructed his private Instagram followers, “So many people asking for updates. All I’ll say correct now’s surgical process went properly.”
“That acknowledged,” he made sure to note, “I’ve in no way seen @teddimellencamp in loads ache. She’s lastly getting some needed leisure.”
Mellencamp was acknowledged with stage 2 melanoma in October 2022, and he or she’s undergone spherical 20 surgical procedures since then.
She filed for divorce from Arroyave in November 2024 after 13 years of marriage; shortly after, Internet web page Six confirmed that Mellencamp’s months-long affair collectively together with her married horse coach led to the break up.
