The woman behind Hollywood's most famous visor has spoken. Again
This time V. Stiviano spoke to Dr. Phil, who confronted her about her relationship with embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling
and a number of other issues during an hour-long interview on his
syndicated talk show Wednesday. But the 31-year-old "visor-wearing
personal assistant" was no shrinking violet.
Here are the top 11 things Stiviano told Dr. Phil McGraw.
She recorded her conversations with Sterling often - in a life coach kind of way.
"Mr. Sterling is very
demanding. He’s a very strong man. Ocasionally, he wants me to write
everything down. Sometimes I would do a voice memo and forget that it
was still recording. Sometimes I’d go back and listen to some of the
conversations and I’d be surprised. He was surprised. He has what I call
'bipolar moments.' He would just lash out...say things that were absurd
or mean...The purpose of the recordings was for him to learn things
about himself...a validation to make him bigger and better and greater
as a person."
She did not release the tapes that brought Sterling down.
"I think we have the
name of the person who did. I cannot disclose that for legal purposes. I
shared the information...a copy of the recording to a couple of my
friends. I didn’t for once think this was going to happen. I never would
have released it. I didn’t think they were going to sell it. I didn’t
put that audio out there for the world to know my private conversation."
She does enjoy the limelight, no matter how she met her infamy.
“Are you kidding me? I
get to experience first-hand what it is to be a celebrity in LA ... I
have to think about what I’m going to wear, how I’m going to do my
hair.”
She understands Shelly Sterling's lawsuit against her might be rooted in jealousy.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if his own children were jealous of me too."
Rollerskating in front of the paparazzi wearing a "welder's helmet" is not about wanting attention.
“Nobody can really see
what I felt and that’s why I wore the visor. We all have different ways
of coping. You live in Hollywood. You deal with Hollywood. So you tell
me, how should I have acted ? I was making light of the situation. You
tell me what would have been better for me to deal with … should I have
been crying? Should I have stayed at home? Should I have been drinking?
Should I have used drugs? You tell me. What would have been better? I
used the mask. I used the mask. I used the visor, as you call it, the
welding mask.”
She is not
Sterling's mistress. But she understands why he said in a recently
released audio recording that she has a "fabulous body."
"I've never had any sexual relationship with Mr. Sterling."
"I mean, look at my body, I personally think I have a fabulous body."
Being Sterling's personal assistant meant many things.
"I didn’t have a set
title. My days were so different. One day it was a real estate business
meeting, the next day it was a board meeting with the NBA, the next day
it was a dinner meeting with a potential sponsor, the next day Mr.
Sterling wanted to go shopping."
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Sterling's gifts of luxury
cars and a $1.8 million were not part of her salary. But it had nothing
to do with how fast she types.
"I can’t discuss the
details of my financial payments. Just to clear the rumor, I don't type
very fast...He's a billionaire. He can afford to give someone a gift of
that magnitude...Why can't someone who has such wealth give someone like
myself, or other people, whatever they want to?"
The fact that Sterling was married is a non-issue when it came to his generosity.
"Why would it be
improper to accept gifts from a married man? I was accepting gifts from
someone who was my boss, who was very generous...I was his caretaker. I
was his mother. I was his secretary. I was his driver. I did everything
for this man for the last three years."
In the now infamous recording,
Stiviano told Sterling that he's in love with her. But she didn't mean
what you think she meant. And calling him "honey" on the tape is nothing
special.
"He is in love with me as a person, as a human being..I call everyone honey and love and sweetie."
She thinks her situation could still have a happy ending.
"I don't know. You think I'm gonna get a movie deal?"
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