in the matter of Gant vs. Gant,
step forward.
>> Announcer: Sadae Gant
is suing her father, Bobby Gant,
for breaking her TV when
he smashed it with a bottle.
>> Judge Judy: Ms. Gant,
this is your father, and he came
to your house to visit.
According to you,
he was drinking too much.
>> That's correct.
>> Judge Judy: You asked him to
stop drinking, got into an
altercation, and he broke
your television set.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: He said you were
being bossy and that you grabbed
the bottle out of his hand, and
it slipped, and you broke the
TV.
>> No, that's not correct.
Sorry.
>> Judge Judy: Does your father
come to visit you often?
>> No, he don't.
>> Judge Judy: On what date
did he come to visit?
>> It was November 19, 2017.
>> Judge Judy: Had you invited
him over?
>> He was coming over to pick up
some mail from my house.
>> Judge Judy: Why does his mail
come to your house?
>> It was, like, some important
paperwork that he wanted to come
to my house because I guess
something was going on with his
mailbox, so he wanted the mail
to come to my house so nothing
would happen to the mail,
because it was, like, some
important pieces of paper that
he needed.
>> Judge Judy: Do you usually
receive his mail,
or was it just this one time?
>> No, it was just this one
time.
>> Judge Judy: Did you
invite him for dinner,
or was he coming over
to spend some time with you?
>> Yes.
Well, he come over, actually,
to just pick up his mail,
but he just said that he'll
just stay and chill with the
grandbabies and stuff, so I was
like, "Okay, that's fine."
You know, I didn't have
a problem with him doing that.
So, we ended up -- decided to go
to Foodco to get some food so I
can cook something for everyone.
>> Judge Judy: So he went
shopping?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: By himself?
>> No, with me and my daughter
and my son.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So you all went shopping
to have food for dinner.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Had he been
drinking prior to that?
>> No, he wasn't drinking
at the moment.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, and then
you came home with food.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And tell me what
happened.
What time did you get home?
>> We got home about, like --
about 2:00 or 3:00.
It was, like, in the afternoon,
around that time.
And then I cooked some food.
We had wine.
He bought a bottle, E&J bottle,
when we was at the store.
We were drinking wine.
He was drinking his E&J.
>> Judge Judy: Keep your voice
up, please.
>> I'm sorry.
So, when we came back to the
house, he's drinking his E&J,
and I'm drinking wine, and I'm
cooking at the same time.
So, he started drinking a little
bit too much of the alcohol.
So, when he started drinking a
little bit too much of the
alcohol and I seen what he was
doing, I told him to kind of
slow down, you know, because I
know how he can get when he
start drinking alcohol.
So, then, after that,
he was like, "Okay.
I'm not gonna be drinking
that much.
I'm gonna slow down."
But he was still drinking.
So, he finished the bottle,
and when he got done
with the bottle, he was just
sitting there, just acting cool.
Next thing you know it --
>> Judge Judy: Are you still
in the kitchen?
>> Yes, I'm still in the kitchen
cooking.
>> Judge Judy: And he's still in
the kitchen?
>> Yes, he's at the table.
So, then, after that,
he's still drinking alcohol,
so when he's continuing --
>> Judge Judy: Where did he get
more alcohol if he finished the
bottle?
>> I'm sorry.
So, after he finished the bottle
with the alcohol, my mom --
I called my mom to let her know.
That's my mom right there.
I called her to let her know,
you know, I'm cooking Sunday
dinner for her to come over
so she can have a part of the
Sunday dinner.
She said okay, she was on her
way.
>> Judge Judy: They're not
together?
>> No, they're not.
So, she came over.
When she came over,
he was asking me before --
while I was cooking, sorry --
to take him to the store, so I
told him I couldn't take him to
the store because I was cooking.
So my mom said she'll do it,
so that's when she took him
to the store, back to Foodco,
and he bought another bottle
of E&J, but this time --
>> Judge Judy: What is this
that he bought?
>> E&J -- Erk and jerk
or something like that.
I don't know.
It's a brown liquor.
>> Judge Judy: What size bottle
is it in?
>> It was the big bottle,
like this.
>> No, it wasn't.
It was a small bottle.
>> Judge Judy: How big?
>> It was, like, the smallest
one -- like a -- the very
smallest one they have.
>> Judge Judy: Well, the
smallest one they have is the
one that they serve you in an
airplane.
>> Well, next to the smallest
one.
Next to the smallest one, like
that, so --
I can't drink a big bottle,
two big bottles to myself.
That's crazy.
So, then, your mother took him
to the store to get him
another bottle of alcohol.
>> Yes, correct.
>> Judge Judy: And he got
another bottle of alcohol.
Then what?
>> Before he got --
When he got back to my house
with the bottle of alcohol,
he was already messed up.
>> Judge Judy: Well, you're
messed up after the first
bottle.
Go ahead.
>> Yes, so then I told him --
I said, "If you open
that bottle of alcohol,
you cannot spend the night,
you know, just because I don't
need you to act crazy.
I know how you get
when you drink alcohol."
He said, "I'm not gonna
act crazy."
I said, "Well, don't open it."
I said, "Well, if you open it,
you can't stay."
He said, "Well, I can't stay?"
I say, "You can't stay
if you open it."
He said, "You know what?
I'm gonna leave.
I don't have to be
at your house.
[Bleep] your house and
[bleep] this.
I'm leaving."
I said, "Okay. That's fine."
So, he got his medication
and his stuff out my cabin,
and when he done that, he left.
At this moment, I'm getting my
hair braided by my sister
Mashonda.
So, she's doing my hair.
My head is down while
she's on my hair.
I thought he left.
Next thing you know,
he comes back to my house.
When he come back to my house,
he had the big bottle of E&J --
the bottle that I told him
not to open -- and a black bag
that he had in it, this big,
and he swung it at me.
When he swung it at me,
I got back, like, "Hold on."
You know, "What is you doing?"
So, I was like, "You know, you
trying to hit me with a bottle?"
I told him to leave my house,
"And if you don't,
I'm about to call the police."
He said, "You gonna call
the police?"
And then he start talking mess
in my house.
When he started talking mess
in my house, I was, like,
you know, walking right behind
him to lock the gate behind him
because I don't want him
coming back in my house again
after he swung the bottle at me,
so when he did that on the way
out, I have a big-screen TV,
55-inch, posted right here,
like, in the middle of how
we are.
He had the bottle in his hand
with the bag, because the bottle
was in the bag, and swung the
TV -- the bag -- the bottle
with the bag, and hit the TV.
My little son is only
3 years old.
He was sitting right there on
the floor, and glass shattered
everywhere.