Flight attendant Louann Giambattista filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against Jay Leno and NBC after the Tonight Show host accused her of hiding rats in her underwear.

Giambattista is suing Leno for portraying her in a malicious light on an episode of his show that aired in July. As part of his game segment Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, Leno invited three guest comedians on stage -- Alec Mapa, Kira Soltanovich and Jim Norton. One of the questions posed to them had to with Giambattista's recent case.

The New York based American Airlines flight attendant filed a lawsuit after co-workers accused her of sneaking rats on the plane by hiding them in her pantyhose and her underwear. The three comedians went on to make fun of the whole affair, as is the game's intention.

Giambattista is now suing Leno and NBC for emotional and financial distress that was caused by "crude and defamatory" remarks made by Leno and his guests, according to She Knows.

"In a wholly uncalled for and unsubstantial attack on plaintiff's character, the second panelist [Kira Soltanovich] accused Ms. Giambattista of using rats for her own sexual gratification and portrayed Ms. Giambattista as a woman engaged in sexual misconduct of the most depraved sort, bestiality," the lawsuit reads.

"Leno indulged [his] panelists' outlandish comments and laughed as his guests attacked Ms. Giambattista's character."

Giambattista also said that she had become a "pariah" in her community and that her husband now suffered "from severe sexual dysfunction."

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