I just watched episode one "Girlfriend Demands Payback" and someone needs to pinch me.   They picked a crazy case to get the viewers attention - a woman (Christina Parra) is suing her ex-boyfriend (Lorenzo Jordan), who she met at a restaurant where he was part of a "micro wrestling show".    Parra is a full grown woman and the ex is a little person with dyed blond dread braids and several unhealed wounds on his face, who did side jobs in this wrestling show.    

She has three children but she paid to have his teeth fixed -- she tells that he only had one tooth because they got messed up while he was in prison(!).  Now that they're broken up, she wants to be repaid for this $13K worth of dental work.  More details come out about this toxic relationship:   Her kids watched their mother drunkenly fight with the defendant; during their fight she hit him with a speaker and he went to the ER in an ambulance.  Per the police report, the kids were removed for their safety after this fight and sent to their father.  Plaintiff went to court to get them back and lost because it was alleged she threw lit fireworks while the cops were taking the defendant away and the kids were still present.   Parra states another time she gave him money - she paid for him to travel to "reconnect" with his child that was living in another state.  Texts reveal that he was going into a sober house for his drinking problem... what a prince she picked.   There may have been some talk about bail, but my mind was reeling by this time.

After all that, Jordan countersuing for $5K for the hospital bills from when Parra hit him, but he presented his hospital discharge paper as evidence instead of the bill, so that goes out the window.  This is so crazy it almost seems scripted for maximum lunacy.  JJ makes him pay for the teeth only, as some texts from him show that he acknowledged the debt.   The foolish plaintiff cries in the hallterview, saying she only tried to help him and she lost her children behind that.   

The show is basically the same except the 2 people (court reporter and assistant) sitting on either side of the bench with JJ.   The audience is back and the addition of her granddaughter is a waste - they spent about 3 minutes talking about the case, but it was random chitchat. 

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