>> Judge Judy: So you said to
her, "I'm not doing this,"
and she said,
"Fine. You can leave."
Is that what you're telling me?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: When did she say
that to you?
>> That day.
>> Judge Judy: On March 2nd?
>> Yes, when all this took
place.
>> Judge Judy: Now I'm
listening.
Did you ask her to rinse out
someone's color?
>> That is incorrect.
>> Judge Judy: So the answer is
no.
You did not.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: You want to tell
me the circumstances surrounding
her leaving?
She paid you for 2 months' rent
that she was there.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: So now I want you
to try to plainly
and in a linear way
tell me the circumstances
surrounding her leaving.
>> It was on that
particular day,
I told her if she would like
to get an assistant to help her
because she would have clients
waiting in the lobby,
and it's other people
who work there,
so you need to have, you know,
leave space for other people
and their clients to wait.
So I told her that it would be
best if she gets
an assistant or a shampoo girl.
I never asked her to wash out
chemicals out of any of my
clients because --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
No. I want you to tell me
exactly what you said.
So you said to her,
"You have to get an assistant"?
>> No.
I didn't tell her she had to.
I just suggested that she gets
an assistant because
of her overflow of clients.
That's what I suggested.
I didn't tell her
that she'd have to.
I was just giving a suggestion.
>> Judge Judy: Sounds more than
that to me.
>> Well, I am a professional
businesswoman.
I'm only trying to encourage any
of my employees or rentees --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
She's not an employee of yours.
>> Well, I do understand that,
but I, you know, with her
under my roof, you know,
she's renting one of my space,
so overall,
I know that she does have her
own business in there,
but at the same time,
I'm just going to always
encourage to give great business
skills to anyone who is in my
circle or under my salon roof.
>> Judge Judy: She was tired
of you giving her
your business advice.
>> Well, she never said that.
I always gave her
good mentor advice, so it --
>> Judge Judy: Well, just a
second.
>> ...just surprised me --
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Then I'm going to ask you
a question that I wouldn't
ordinarily ask somebody.
If she paid you rent for the
two months that she was there,
substantial rent,
$1,200, and if what you want me
to believe
is that her business was so good
that she had overflow --
That's what you're telling me --
She had overflow people
outside waiting
so that you were offering her
advice to get a shampoo person
or an assistant to take care
of her overflow people
because your other tenants
needed the space, right,
why do you think she left?
Just think about it
before you answer. Judge Judy: t
business, according to you.
She had too many clients
that were causing clutter
in the waiting room,
so you told her
to get an assistant.
She was clearly, then,
making money.
She had been paying her rent.
Why do you think she gave up
her good business?
>> Judge, that still doesn't
have anything to do
with her breaching her contract.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Just a second.
It does to me.
It does to me because
if you breached your arrangement
with her as a landlord
and asked her to do something
and made the
conditions of her employment --
>> I didn't ask her to do
something.
>> Judge Judy: ...unpleasant --
>> I suggested something.
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
I just asked you a question.
The question I asked you was,
she's busy.
She has a boatload of clients.
She's paying her rent.
Why do you think
she decided to leave?
And your answer to me was,
"That has nothing to do
with why she breached her lease.
I'm a businesswoman."
That's your answer to me.
>> That was for her own personal
reasons.
>> Judge Judy: Your case is
dismissed, and the reason your
case is dismissed is I find her
response to my questions
credible, that she stopped
paying her rent,
and she stopped working for you
because you were treating her
as an employee rather than a --
>> Judge --
>> Judge Judy: Shh, I'm
speaking.
...Rather than a tenant
by asking her to do work
when she's not your employee.
>> I never asked her to do work.
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
I get in the last word.
I asked you a question.
I gave you --
>> Well, I'm sorry that I
answered you wrong.
>> Judge Judy: I gave you a
reasonable time to respond
twice, and your response to me
was, "That has nothing to do
with the breach of her lease,"
so I'm telling you --
>> Judge, she just told you the
reason why she left was
because she wanted to --
>> Judge Judy: We're done.
Put her out.
>> Oh, wow. Oh.
>> Byrd: Parties are excused.
>> I don't want this to mess up
the relationship me and
her had at one point in time,
but right now, it's so bad
that we can't even
speak to one another.
I mean, I hope
that we don't clash.
I hope that we can speak one day
in a lifetime where we just
don't hold this beef
because it's very petty.