“Of course I didn’t mean her to fall and, I know it’s an awful thing to say, but the first thing I thought was, ‘Thank God she’s out.'”

and then …

Ms Kushner denied touching the manager. She said Ms Fischer repeatedly told her in a high- pitched voice to go away.

“She was on her hands and knees and looking up to the sky, and saying, ‘I beg you’,” she said.

“I wasn’t angry, I was incredulous. It was bizarre.”

During the hearing, both women performed dramatic and shrill impersonations of each other at the witness stand.

Who knows where the truth is, but what a strange story.