>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And you're going
to college here?
>> No, I go to college
in UC Berkeley.
>> Judge Judy: And you were
looking for a place to live.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: You have to
answer, yes or no.
>> Oh, yes.
>> Judge Judy: And you found a
room that was being rented
by the defendant.
>> On June 29th on Cal Central,
which is a student website
for UC Berkeley students.
>> Judge Judy: I didn't
understand you.
>> I found the listing
on June 29th.
>> Judge Judy: That's better.
Do you hear
how I'm talking to you?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: That's how
I want you to talk to me.
So I can hear you.
Because if you're really smart,
doesn't mean anything
unless you can communicate
how smart you are.
You understand?
>> Yes, I understand.
>> Judge Judy: All right.
I'm not so smart.
I just talk loud.
You needed a place to live
because you were going to
school.
Mr. Parella,
have you been renting rooms
in your home for a while?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: You rent to
college students?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: What kind of
property do you have?
>> It's a big house.
>> Judge Judy: How many rooms do
you rent?
>> Five.
>> Judge Judy: Now, your mother,
where had she been living
before you moved in?
Where was she living?
>> She lives in South Pasadena.
>> Judge Judy: With whom?
>> With my father.
>> Judge Judy: Did she leave
your father?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Well, she moved
in with you.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: When did she move
in with you?
>> On August 20th.
>> Judge Judy: Did you have one
bed in your room, two beds in
your room?
How did that work?
Well, I have one bed
and another mattress
that she brought with her.
>> Judge Judy: Something
happened
that your mother left Pasadena
and came to Berkeley.
What?
>> Dominic and my mom hit it off
on an investment for real estate
and antique business, so...
>> Judge Judy: Let me explain
something to you.
That's what was written in here.
I don't believe it.
I didn't believe
it when I read it.
I don't believe it now.
If your mother is living
with your father,
she doesn't come in and move in
with you because they hit it off
when she came
for a visit on August 20th,
and they went into an investment
property together.
Doesn't make sense.
Do you understand?
Doesn't make sense to me.
Things that don't make sense
usually aren't true.
August 20th, your son is living
with the defendant.
You come to visit him, and...
>> I came to visit him,
and, before, he told me,
this house of his, the owner,
he wants to sell the house.
He invite me to his business.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
You want to tell me what this is
about, please?
I'm not following.
>> Anyway, I rented him a room.
>> Judge Judy: Right.
>> Shortly after, she just moved
in and
started taking over the house.
She had a desk at the front
of the house,
which I called her Gestapo desk,
so she could watch people come
and go, and she was disruptive
in the house.
All night long,
they would argue.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Explain this to me.
What do you mean, she just came?
>> Her and the husband
showed up.
>> Judge Judy: Both.
>> He went to the...
Yeah, both of them.
He went to the airport
the following day.
She came back.
>> Judge Judy: Is this when he
moved in?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
When did his lease start?
>> His lease started in August.
>> Judge Judy: Do you have
a copy of that lease?
>> No.
He doesn't have a lease,
Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, so he was
a month-to-month tenant.
>> It was a month-to-month.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So he showed up with his mother
and father in August.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And then what
happened?
>> She stayed on after
the father went to the airport
and went to Shanghai.
The father is not even
in the country right now,
and they have an apartment.
>> Judge Judy: Did your father
leave the country in August?
>> No. No.
My father is in
the United States right now.
>> Judge Judy: I didn't ask you
right now.
I said, "Did he leave
the country in August?"
>> No, he did not.
>> Judge Judy: Go ahead.
>> Yeah, he left the country.
I took him to the airport.
And then they destroyed
my house, basically.
They destroyed my kitchen,
as well as the bedrooms.
I have pictures
of all the damage they did.
>> Judge Judy: Just tell me.
So she stayed on
with him in August.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, and you
took the father to the airport.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: What prompted you
to take him to the airport?
>> He asked for a ride
to the airport,
and she was supposed
to leave a few days after,
going back to South Pasadena.
>> Judge Judy: Did it surprise
you that the mother stayed?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Was it discussed
that she
would be in the room, as well?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: You hesitated
for a moment.
>> She was going to stay there,
and I offered her a room
downstairs that was empty,
and she said she didn't want it.
She wanted to stay in the room
with her son.
>> Judge Judy: Well, that sounds
sort of odd.
You would offer her another room
downstairs, and she would pay
an additional rent,
or she just stayed for nothing?
>> No, she would just stay there
for a few days for nothing.
>> Judge Judy: So she wasn't
planning on staying.
This was a temporary thing.
>> Yes, until the other student
came in who had rented that
room.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, got it.
And then what happened?
>> She never left.
>> Judge Judy: And she stayed
with the son?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Now,
they are suing you, Mr. Parella,
because I'm not getting veracity
from this end.
I'm not seeing that you want
to go into business with her,
which is why she stayed,
in a real estate business.
Unless you have some proof
of that, I'm not buying it.
Do you understand?
I'm also not buying the fact
that your husband
did not go back
to Shanghai during the summer.
Maybe he came back,
but I absolutely believe him.
You don't make up that story of,
"I drove him to the airport."
Do you understand me?
>> Yes.
>> I understand you.
>> Judge Judy: Good. What?
>> My father did not go
to Shanghai.
He works, like, home, right now.
>> Judge Judy: I didn't say
he's not home right now.
>> I know.
>> Judge Judy: I said, in
August...
I don't believe that he didn't
leave by air some place, right?
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: O