Olivia Wilde and her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis, scored a major win in their former nanny’s wrongful termination lawsuit against them.
On Wednesday, Ron Zambrano, who is representing the plaintiff, former nanny Ericka Genaro, confirmed to DailyMail.com that a judge has ruled for the case to be moved to arbitration.
‘We don’t agree with the decision, but it is what it is and now we’ll litigate it in arbitration and the case goes on. This does not terminate the lawsuit. It merely changes the venue,’ Zambrano explained.
The Los Angeles attorney continued: ‘As to the underlying facts, we’ve got text messages and testimony that she was driven to quit, then was summarily fired anyway. We feel extremely confident in the case so instead of taking this to trial, we’ll handle it in arbitration and we’re ready to move forward.’
This comes six months after Genaro alleged in legal documents that she was fired by the couple when she requested medical leave.
In her suit, filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, she stated that her doctor had prescribed her a three-day medical leave in 2021 to deal with the stress of the couple’s public split.
After informing Sudeikis, she claimed in the suit that he ‘fired her on the spot.’
The couple have vehemently denied the allegations.
Genaro has been seeking back-pay, punitive damages and the costs of attorneys fees.
Pushing forward: Olivia Wilde and her ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis won a scored a major win in their lawsuit against their former nanny, who is suing them for ‘wrongful termination’ (seen in 2019)
Genaro has previously told DailyMail.com how the Horrible Bosses star would text her about his concerns as Olivia Wilde started to see Harry Styles more often, before bringing Genaro on a trip to London.
But the former celebrity couple quickly hit back at Genaro’s claims, calling them ‘false and scurrilous.’
They repeated that assertion in a statement to DailyMail.com about Genaro’s lawsuit, saying: ‘As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly.
‘Her now 18-month long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues, has reached its unfortunate apex. We will continue to focus on raising and protecting our children with the sincere hope that she will now choose to leave our family alone.’
Genaro’s lawsuit detailed how she allegedly got put in the middle of the celebrity couple’s divorce after ‘Wilde abruptly left the home where she lived with Sudeikis, her two kids and Plaintiff as [a] live-in nanny’ in November 2020.
‘Wilde’s sudden absence from the home had an adverse consequence on its emotional state, including Sudeikis leaning on the presence of Plaintiff for support,’ the suit claims.
‘Although this shared trauma created a bond between Plaintiff and Sudeikis, Plaintiff became increasingly anxious and stressed with Sudeikis’ tendency to seemingly require Plaintiff to stay up at night after the kids were put to bed to talk, whereas that dynamic did not occur before Wilde’s absence.
‘The subject matter of these late night conversations with Sudeikis naturally evolved into speaking about Wilde, which Plaintiff felt compelled to engage in despite creating extreme anxiety to her as she ostensibly felt she had to “pick sides” between the parents of the children she was ostensibly the primary caretaker [of.]’
Latest update: On Wednesday, Ron Zambrano, who is representing the plaintiff, former nanny Ericka Genaro, confirmed to DailyMail.com that a judge has ruled for the case to be moved to arbitration; seen in 2018
Eventually, the suit says, Genaro reached out to Wilde to talk about the situation, which she said she thought went well.
‘Plaintiff felt a genuine sense of relief and comradery with Wilde, who reacted sympathetically from Plaintiff’s point of view — Plaintiff thought she got enough off her chest to be able to function without anxiety as the live-in nanny for Wilde’s and Sudeikis’ children, with Wilde as a reliable ear,’ it says.
But when she, Sudeikis and the children were traveling to the airport in December 2020 to catch a flight to London, Genaro alleges, Sudeikis informed her that Wilde told him about their entire conversation.
‘Plaintiff was stunned at the abrupt announcement, and her heart sank because of its significance —there was no peace when confiding in Wilde,’ the suit says.
It continues to allege that Sudeikis then asked her ‘”Do you trust me?” as part “gotcha,” part threat and part confirmation Plaintiff was on Sudeikis’ side.’
