13-Year-Old Dance Student Files Lawsuit Against 'Dance Moms' star coach Abby Lee Miller
"Dance Moms" star coach Abby Lee Miller has terrorized her small dance students. They are in deep panic attacks and complete anxiety, according to a new lawsuit that has been filed by 13-year-old Paige Hyland.
The teenager is a participant in "Lifetime's" Dance Moms. Paige was already part of one lawsuit against Miller, and today she has blasted the reality show dance diva again, according to Deadline.
The complaint claims that Miller was "cruel." She would pinch the children to the point that some of them started to bleed. Paige would always see Miller hitting the other children and would fear that she would be tortured likewise. Miller's aim seemed to be to hurt and jeer at them for being emotionally weak and insult their appearance. It was a drama queen's tactic, according to TMZ. Paige's lawyer, Michael Shapiro, exclaimed that he was not trying to pan the case for money. Whatever Miller had done was "intolerable" and should be stopped. "It's the most repugnant case I've been involved in after 49 years of practice," he added.
The complaint specified that Miller's conduct made Paige Hyland to "reasonably believe that she was about to be touched or harmed in an offensive manner." Miller even threw a chair on her when her mother, Kelly Hyland, was not present, which made Paige run out, terrified that she was going to be assaulted by Miller. Moreover, Miller used to make her dance trainee to work "like a horse" in Central Park. The children were required to put in 60 hours every week or 12 hours everyday with weekends free.
Paige's mother hates Miller. Both the women have accused the other of violence and Kelly has also sued Miller for emotionally abusing Paige. Miller feels that she is justified in her "tough love" behaviour because her aim is to make the children work hard and excel, according to her.
Today's complaint has been filed even as the LA Superior Court Judge, Ruth Kwan, is still going through the earlier defamation complaints, as well as "emotional distress and breach-of-contract claims" that Kelly, mother of Paige and her sister Brooke have filed in court. Last February, the Hylands had filed a $5 million complaint against Miller and producers Collins Street Entertainment.
That suit was filed to complain against an attack on November 22 last year, when Miller and Kelly Hyland had quarreled over the "bullying and insulting" way that Miller had treated Kelly's daughters. Even as the two girls had been near, the two women had yelled at each other, as Miller jumped at her and Hyland slapped her.
Collins Avenue has also been referenced, though in an indirect way. "Miller is paid to be abusive and bullying to her students and provoke arguments with the mothers in front of the children," adds the document.