The tennis ump, who was arrested but later cleared in connection to the death of her husband, said she hears whispers behind her back and isn’t scoring plum gigs she once got.
“It’s different, it’s different,” Lois “Lolo” Goodman, 71, told NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday.
“They say things behind my back. I’m not getting jobs that I used to get.”
When Goodman landed in New York last year to work as a line judge at the US Open, when she was pinched by members of the LAPD for the alleged slaying of her ailing husband Alan Goodman, 80, several months earlier.
LA prosecutors eventually dropped the case and just last month Goodman filed a law suit against the LAPD for their handling of the case.
“I think the detective had an agenda,” Goodman told “Today.” “I think he saw an opportunity to get into the news and I think that’s one of the reasons [behind the arrest].”
Despite Goodman’s claims of decreased work, she did get a call back from the US Open — a gig she was very grateful to get.
“I love my job and I was so thrilled to be invited back to work,” Goodman said. “It meant everything to me.”
Alan Goodman died on April 17 last year, from a blunt-force trauma, officials said. He had been hit in the head with a coffee mug, according to LA coroner investigators.
Lois Goodman called her hubby’s death a “terrible accident.”
A rep for the LA City Attorney’s Office, which represents cops in civil lawsuits, declined the discuss Goodman’s accusations: “As a policy, we do not comment on pending litigation.”
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