“Wife Swap” Star Alicia Guastaferro Suing ABC For $100 Million
A former teen beauty queen who appeared on the ABC reality comedy Wife Swap more than two years ago has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the network, which she accuses of ruining her life by inaccurately portraying her as a spoiled brat.
Guastaferro, 18, says she regularly suffers panic attacks and has suicidal tendencies because of her appearance on the show, which temporarily dispatches mothers to surrogate families.
The suit –filed in Manhattan on Monday — claims producers ordered Guastaferro to “act a little more spoiled” and accuses ABC and parent company Walt Disney of staging scenes to “maximize [Guastaferro's] public embarrassment.”
The former Little Miss Buffalo said she was instructed to pretend to get a “Christmas present” and to repeat such lines like “I am the most popular girl in school” and “I do feel sorry for people that are not gorgeous people”during her appearance on the show.
According to Alicia, her poor behavior on the show made her the object of ridicule among her peers, forcing the one-time spitfire to transfer schools to escape the abuse. Guastaferro claims she has gotten death threats, been assaulted, and went from the honor roll to special ed after the show aired.
“For their own profit, defendants purposefully, intentionally and knowingly caused severe emotional and psychological harm to a fragile 15-year-old,” the suit reads.
Written by Castina on March 23rd, 2010 | Tagged as: Popular Culture
On March 23rd 2010, Compare Satellite TV wrote:
ABC really did that? oh c'mon
On August 2nd 2010, Tracey wrote:
WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!
Alicia you should be issuing a law suit against your parents!
You couldn’t spell AMERICA!
And you LIVE there.
OMG girl.
Get some bloody counselling and divorce your parents.
Beauty id skin deep and you are as shallow as a frog pond.
On August 3rd 2010, Mark wrote:
KAREN GUSTEFERRO IS THE MOTHER FROM HELL.
For someone who dressed in crappy old tracksuit pants and tops and then swore like a trooper.
These two parents should be held accountable for what they are doing to their daughter!
Is it true they do her homework for her?
Alicia couldn’t even spell AMERICA!
AND SHE LIVES THERE, OMG.
Wake up girl, this is the real world, get an education, YOURSELF, not by cheating.
Get a real job and get a life.
PEOPLE who take and take are ugly.
PEOPLE who are uneducated and stupid and THINK they are beautiful, are UGLY.
This family might think beauty is the Be ALL and END ALL of there lives. But they are all UGLY on the inside.