She was sacked shortly after the end of their 2014 tour.
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Among the footage she claims she was subjected to while drumming for White were “videos sexualizing human fecal matter” and she also alleges she was forced to watch a couple having sex on the corpse of a bear they had just killed. She claims she’s owed $42,000 Dollars in back payments. Zawaideh claims that White sent her sexual photos. Lena claims she was forced to watch this, and at one point, Shaun allegedly stuck his hands down his trousers and then “stuck his hands in her face trying to make her smell them”.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Lena Zawaideh claims White sent her a number of disturbing text messages that show the “darker, misogynistic personality” of the two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Sticking his hands down his trousers, approached Zawaideh, and the sticking his hands in her face trying to make her smell them. WHITE also ordered her to refrain from wearing red lipstick – her own personal signature.
He also allegedly demanded that she cut her hair and tried to kiss her at a Halloween party in 2010, despite her rejections. On Friday, her lawyers filed a new complaint in San Diego court with added details about how drummer Lena Zawaideh says White pressured her to join the band, then began harassing her-trying to control her appearance, showing her porn, and sending her sexually explicit text messages, including pictures of other men’s penises.
“I am pursuing this case because women should not have to tolerate harassment at work”, Zawaideh said in a statement released on Tuesday.
Zawaideh is suing for non-payment of her contract, plus other damages for the alleged sexual harassment. White turns 30 later this year, and the world’s most famous snowboarder is celebrating by stamping his name all over the business side of the world he’s helped create. “There is absolutely no coincidence to the timing of her claims, and we will defend them vigorously in court”.
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‘Although I am embarrassed to have been treated this way, I can not sit by and watch him do this to other women’.
