Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon gave $2 million to an eco-friendly home she built in Vermont, imagining that this is where she’ll live when she retires. However, she discovered that her dream home had dozens of problems and has now sued the construction company, The Guardian reports.

The Thelma & Louise star, 76, planned a “fully self-contained” retirement home but claims the construction company did a poor job.

According to the complaint filed against DeGrenier Contracting and Property Management in federal court in Springfield, Mass., bent siding, lack of insulation, mold and an unfinished master bedroom ceiling are among 47 problems discovered by Sarandon’s engineers, contractors and staff.

Sarandon wanted an eco-friendly home built on 18 acres of woods and meadows in Stamford, Vermont, near the Massachusetts border. She purchased the plot in 2018 through The Right to Bear Farms, the company through which she filed the lawsuit.

Sarandon says she had a “clear vision” for a home that was “fully self-sustaining,” meaning solar, well and geothermal, “given the increasing volatility of the global environment.”

The company inflated the bills

In the lawsuit, Sarandon alleges that the construction firm misrepresented its qualifications, inflated invoices, billed for construction work it never performed and did virtually nothing to justify being paid nearly $140,000 for to act as property manager under the agreement entered into after the house. built.

The plaintiff seeks unspecified damages based on allegations of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and fraud.

The actress is a well-known left-leaning political activist who has become a controversial figure, especially during the 2016 US election when she refused to support Hillary Clinton to become the first woman president of the United States.

Sarandon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1995’s The Walking Dead.

She is currently playing the lead villain in the recently released superhero movie Blue Beetle. (news.ro)