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A woman is suing because her Clippers obsession made doctors think she was crazy
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A woman is suing because her Clippers obsession made doctors think she was crazy

Published Sep. 8, 2015 12:31 p.m. ET

Go back and read that headline again. It'll still say the same thing:

A woman is suing because her love for the Clippers made Bellevue doctors think she was crazy.

Yep, things are getting weird. It must be that time of the offseason. From the New York Daily News:

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Dare Matthews says her burning desire to read the latest on the downfall of the NBA team’s racist former owner Donald Sterling on her cellphone was used by doctors to justify her being held six days for paranoid thoughts and a behavioral disorder.

“Doctors decided she thought the Clippers were somehow controlling her thoughts and that her Twitter was part of it," said Matthews’ attorney Rose Weber.

“They took every innocent thing and made it into a crazy symptom.”

Matthews, 24, who was attending Fashion Institute of Technology at the time of the incident, seeks $10 million in damages.

It all started Apr. 30, according to the News, when a couple of employees in the New York City building Matthews lives in called 911 on her.

Her suit attributes the call to a simmering feud with staff, but an attorney for the Olivia said otherwise.

“She was acting bizarre,” said Deborah del Sordo, who represents the building, which is also named as a defendant in the suit.

EMTs and police arrived, deemed Matthews an emotionally disturbed person and took her to Bellevue.

At the hospital, her fandom was used against her as she pleaded with doctors in the psychiatric ward to let her check her phone for alerts on the Sterling saga, she charges in an amended complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court last week.

Matthews’ Twitter had recently been hacked — a coincidence that doctors didn’t believe, her suit alleges.

This is all kinds of strange. There's one thing we know for sure, though: Being afraid of and obsessed with Donald Sterling doesn't make you nutty. It just makes you V. Stiviano.

(h/t Daily News)

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