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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Attorneys for Lil Wayne have dropped their request for a hearing on their bid to have an independent psychological examination ordered for his former part-time chef, who alleges she still has ongoing emotional distress after she was wrongfully fired in 2022 for leaving the rapper and his staff while she cared for her son after getting an emergency call.
Plaintiff Morghan Medlock's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit states that she lost her job after she flew from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on Memorial Day weekend in 2022 to tend to her boy, who was then 10 years old. In court papers filed in November with Judge Kristin S. Escalante, the rapper's attorneys maintained that Medlock's mental state is "squarely in controversy in this action" and the plaintiff has refused to voluntarily undergo the psychological assessment.
However, on Tuesday the rapper's lawyers stated in new court papers that, without explanation, they were withdrawing their request for a hearing on the issue.
The 41-year-old performer's real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. In her lawsuit filed in December 2022, Medlock says that while with the singer in Las Vegas she received a call from Los Angeles that her son suffered a severe head injury and a concussion during a basketball game that required emergency hospitalization.
"Though she was well aware of her job tasks and schedule and anticipated return date to Los Angeles, Ms. Medlock made her best efforts to coordinate her return to Los Angeles in conjunction with her job tasks and (the singer's) scheduled return to Los Angeles, which would have allowed her to then go directly to care for her son," the suit states.
Medlock was notified of her firing by a call from the entertainer's assistant, who relayed a message from the rapper stating, "Tell chef Morghan this isn't going to work," the suit states.
A post-mediation status conference is scheduled March 11.