Celebrity Justice
Montel Staffer Sues -- I Can Handle the Pressure!

A former producer for the "Montel Williams" show says she was fired from her $110,000 a year job after suffering a brain aneurysm ... and she's suing mad!
Read the lawsuit against Montel Williams
Erin Primmer began working for Williams in August 2005. On March 29, 2007 she collapsed on the set after suffering the aneurysm and was rushed to a hospital. The following month, she was cleared by her doctor to go back to work with no restrictions. That's when she alleges the executive producer told her the show was not going to renew her contract, telling her, "CBS needed someone capable of handling the pressure, and that the coming year was going to be worse." Primmer says that is "a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, New York State and New York City law" and has filed suit.

A call to CBS was not immediately returned.



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1. Thank God this show is coming to an end, because Montel just plain sucks!!

Posted at 10:30AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Lenn K.

2. Whatever!

Posted at 10:33AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Non Replaceable

3. the show sucks anyway

Posted at 10:35AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Dr. Uga Booby Bongo

4. This won't make it to court....he'll settle.
Doesn't matter anyway, he "retired" his show. Sounds like they gave him an option to go out nicely instead of getting canned. Everytime I tuned in he was crying about something. Does smoking pot on a daily basis turn you into a cry baby?!?

Posted at 10:36AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Whatever

5. Intolerence to disabilities on the Montel show? Is that not a tad ironic considering Montel has MS?

Posted at 10:37AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Blairbear

6. 5. Intolerence to disabilities on the Montel show? Is that not a tad ironic considering Montel has MS?

Posted at 10:37AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Blairbear
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Is it not though ?=)

Posted at 10:45AM on Feb 14th 2008 by ♥Team ...ahhh whatever ...♥

7. The more I hear about this bastard, the more I dislike him. Feck wad.

Posted at 10:45AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Ain't Jemima

8. She is absoutely correct. Even if she had been cleared to go to work with minor restrictions they would have no grounds to terminate her employment as the ADA clearly states that as long as "reasonable accomodations" can be made they're not allowed to fire her for a medical condition.

Posted at 10:59AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Kitty

9. This man is a flaming pig. I've heard WAY too many stories about his sexism and discriminative tendencies. He's a phony pig, plain and simple.

Posted at 11:21AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Tara

10. LES MOONVES IS GOING TO BE TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS. GOOD!!

Posted at 10:59AM on Feb 14th 2008 by John

11. Why am I not surprised. Montel acts holier than thou in pubic and it makes me sick. I have MS, my Grandpa and my Aunt have MS, it does suck like no other but none of us act like victims, it isn't that bad. You learn to suck it up and take it one day at a time. He needs to shut it.

Posted at 11:07AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Jennifer D

12. Great! Montel has MS, an the disabled cant win their civil rights struggle if they continue cannibalizing on each other! What a SNAFU

Posted at 11:12AM on Feb 14th 2008 by jbird

13. #11, MS isn't a "disablity" by definition. I have it, I know. Some days, some muscles work, some days they don't, but through all of this I have started my own company and collected myself some great clients. I have achieved more as a result of the disease I think. Thats just it, it's a disease, not a disability. I consider disabilities to be blindness, permanently paralyzed, etc. (Excuse my spelling, part of MS is poor eye sight and I'm too damn lazy to go get my glasses. lol) Seriously though, living with it isn't that bad. We don't know any other life... after a year of symptoms, every day is like the last... you muck through the crap and find the good in everything, don't look or ask for pity and using it as a forum to get himself ahead makes me sick, I hope he gets cancelled.

Posted at 11:17AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Jennifer D

14. WOW, of all people, someone that has lived and worked with the disability of MS firing someone that sounds like she is absolutely fine. I have never been a Montel fan and this sure isn't helping.. it is absolutely despicable that, at the LEAST, they didn't find/offer another similar position if there were any reasons she should not go back to her former position, Karma is gonna get him.....

Posted at 11:22AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Ms_Tell_It_Like_It_Is

15. Really liked Montel Show EXCEPT for Sylvia Brown.

Posted at 11:24AM on Feb 14th 2008 by Susan

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