So I'm going to ask you a lot of questions about your personal relationship with the plaintiff.
We were just co-workers.
Yeah, but he revealed a lot of information to you about how he was under psychiatric care and suicidal before we terminated him.
You can prove his performance was awful, why do you have to drag him through the mud too?
Do I tell her it's to establish that his personal problems affected his work, that it sends a message to other employees to think twice before suing us, or that it's just plain fun?