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Nothing is known of Cuddy's family and heritage aside from the fact that she is Jewish. The episode "Three Stories" reveals that she treated House when he suffered the infarction in his leg. Cuddy is presumably Jewish (as is Dr. James Wilson); a menorah can be seen on her desk as well as on the bookshelf in her living room, also House has wisecracked about her using JDate. Much of what is known about Cuddy was revealed in the episode "Humpty Dumpty." She attended the University of Michigan around the same time as House. Cuddy was an undergraduate there and she described House as "already a legend." During a conversation with Stacy Warner in the same episode, she mentioned wanting to be a doctor since she was twelve, graduating medical school at age twenty-five and being second in her class, and becoming the first woman and second youngest chief of medicine ever at age thirty-two. During House's court hearing in the episode "Words and Deeds," Cuddy commits perjury by falsifying documents and lying to the court, claiming to have thwarted House's attempt at stealing oxycodone by replacing it with placebos at the hospital pharmacy. After the trial while House is being held in contempt, she tells him the only good thing is now she owns him. Cuddy then implies that in subsequent episodes, viewers will see more House in the clinic, giving seminars, doing paperwork, etc. House does indeed resume his duties in the clinic, and begin giving speeches, although he is less than cooperative with Cuddy's desires that he do so, for example, flying to Singapore on Cuddy's orders only to give a three minute speech. After Cuddy helps to remove the problem created by Tritter, House begins stepping up his playful torture of Cuddy; he begins showing up and interrupting her dates, constantly making comments about her "assets" and displaying an inordinate amount of knowledge (even for House) regarding who she's been with and what she is doing. He also monitors her periods as shown in "Forever" and when she asks him if he can tell because she gets bitchy, House answers: "Once a month, when you leave the kids cancer ward, your eyes glisten. About three days later, you break your ban on sugar and chow down a bucket of frozen yoghurt in the cafeteria, sprinkles included." House also seems genuinely surprised and shocked when Dr. Wilson claims to have slept with Cuddy (although Wilson was in fact joking in order to get House on edge). This series of events seems to culminate when House invites Cuddy to a play, after earlier stating that men only ask women to plays when they want to see the woman naked. (wikipedia.org)