--- title: Diane Stretton, World's Worst Nanny, Agrees to Leave Family's Home description: The nanny from hell finally gave in, but only after being deprived of cable TV and access to the family's refrigerator canonical: https://time.com/2941176/nightmare-nanny-leaving/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-30T20:49:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:16.181Z og:title: The World's Worst Nanny Finally Agreed to Leave This Family's Home, Three Weeks After Being Fired og:description: The nanny from hell finally gave in after being deprived of cable TV and access to the family's refrigerator. og:url: https://time.com/2941176/nightmare-nanny-leaving/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6abd93d61bec054d/698699fb361760d27590cdda/172667925.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 172667925 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The World's Worst Nanny Finally Agreed to Leave This Family's Home, Three Weeks After Being Fired twitter:description: The nanny from hell finally gave in after being deprived of cable TV and access to the family's refrigerator. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6abd93d61bec054d/698699fb361760d27590cdda/172667925.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # World's Worst Nanny Finally Agrees to Leave Family's Home by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 30, 2014 8:49 PM UTC  Walking in a Park Walking in a ParkGetty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 30, 2014 8:49 PM UTC When a California family fired their live-in nanny three weeks ago for spending all day locked in her room (instead of, for example, watching the kids), the family of five presumably thought they had seen the last of their 64-year-old “nightmare nanny.” Unfortunately, the Bracamontes’ nightmare had only just begun. Rather than packing up her things and finding work elsewhere, as just about any other nanny would, Diane Stretton adamantly refused to leave the family’s home. [According to _People_ magazine](http://www.people.com/article/nightmare-nanny-diane-stretton-moving-out-bracamonte-home), Marcella Bracamonte initially appreciated the extra care for her children, ages 11, 4 and 16 months. However, as the weeks went on, she found that Stretton “didn’t want to help out.” Eventually Stretton became so uncooperative that Marcella and her husband Ralph decided to fire the woman, not realizing that Stretton would be legally permitted to remain in their San Bernardino County home because of the terms of her employment. In fact, a law requires the family to accommodate Stretton until she either decides to leave or is legally evicted, and if the Bracamontes try to force her out in the meantime, they could be stuck with a $1,000 fine for disturbing their “tenant.” Luckily for the family, Stretton has relented and informed them that she will leave by July 4 (Independence Day indeed). But the Bracamontes remain understandably skeptical, fearing that their former nanny might lock them out of their own home while they are away for the national holiday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2941176/nightmare-nanny-leaving/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2941176/nightmare-nanny-leaving/"},"headline":"World's Worst Nanny Finally Agrees to Leave Family's Home","datePublished":"2014-06-30T20:49:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:16.181Z","description":"The nanny from hell finally gave in, but only after being deprived of cable TV and access to the family's refrigerator","url":"https://time.com/2941176/nightmare-nanny-leaving/","keywords":["Newsfeed","California","Bizarre","childcare"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6abd93d61bec054d/698699fb361760d27590cdda/172667925.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6abd93d61bec054d/698699fb361760d27590cdda/172667925.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"172667925","caption":"172667925","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2941176/nightmare-nanny-leaving/","name":"World's Worst Nanny Finally Agrees to Leave Family's Home"}}]}] ```