Cameron suggests to House that instead they propose an across- the-board salary cut that will save exactly the same amount of money. When House proposes this, Vogler rejects the suggestion outright, and Cuddy soon realizes that Vogler isn't trying to save money, he's trying to get House in line. House tries to mollify Vogler by offering up Robert Chase, but unbeknownst to anyone, Chase is Vogler's only "rat" in House's department as Cameron and Foreman turn him down flat. It's mentioned in many parts of the show that she wants a child. Although not in a relationship at the time, she attempts IVF with three unsuccessful implantations, one ending in miscarriage.
Actress
She was the Dean of Medicine and Chief Hospital Administrator of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital from Season 1 to Season 7. She's a specialist in endocrinology, but when she was in charge at PPTH, her administrative duties took precedence over her role as a medical practitioner. Lucas Douglas, who likes Cuddy himself, certainly thinks House is romantically interested in Cuddy, as he saw no other reason for House's attempt to get Cuddy to reveal something about herself to Lucas.
Characterization
House's official explanation was that he was looking for leverage in negotiations, but Lucas rejected that explanation. In Wilson, Cuddy decides to move in with Lucas, and is seeking House's approval through Wilson. She tells Wilson that she found a nice loft for her and Lucas to live in, although she didn't realize House was listening. Later on, she tells Wilson that she was unable to buy the loft.
Lisa Cuddy
We also know that Cuddy continued to defend House even though Foreman pointed out that if every doctor acted like House, the mortality rate among patients would skyrocket. Cuddy appears to have both the necessary tolerance for House's methods (which do, after all, save lives) and the willingness to stand up for House when everyone attacks him. We can surmise that Cuddy hired House in much the same circumstances that she re-hired Foreman, and perhaps for the same reason - to teach them both a little humility and get an excellent doctor in exchange.
Then she smiles, and he kisses her again, before the camera shows their hands intertwined. Cuddy decided to hire House despite the fact that she acknowledged that he had already been fired from four other hospitals. The exact reason why she decided to hire House has always been kept ambiguous.
Lisa Edelstein
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However, House has managed to stay at PPTH for some eight years, with Cuddy being his boss throughout. During this time, House has become responsible for half the hospital's legal budget, has continued not only to alienate supervisors, subordinates, staff and patients, but also important donors. He also regularly subjects Cuddy to sexual harassment, commenting constantly on the size of her butt and the display of her breasts. Obviously, no matter how low his salary, it isn't worth the nine figure sum he has cost PPTH. However, when push (literally) comes to shove, Cuddy has always backed House. Edelstein has often spoken fondly of her experiences on the show and fellow cast and crew, especially her friendship and strong working relationship with Laurie.
At the end of Help Me, she's in House's bathroom while he's on the floor with Vicodin in his hand after the patient he was working on with Cuddy dies from a fat embolism after he amputated her leg after much debate with Cuddy throughout. Before he takes the Vicodin, Cuddy enters his home, they have a short yet emotional conversation, where Cuddy reveals that she ended it with Lucas and that she loves him, and that she can't move forward in her life because all she thinks of is House. This surprises House, leaving him speechless, until Cuddy helps him up, and they share a tender kiss. He questions whether he's hallucinating again, like last year, and she asks him if he took the Vicodin; he says no, ignoring the fact that he hallucinated not taking any during his psychotic episode a year before.
In Humpty Dumpty, House offered his theory that Cuddy hired him since she believes the world can be made perfect, and that he can be a better person than he is. While treating a dying young woman, Cuddy realizes that the patient has eclampsia and must have recently given birth. The patient finally admits it, and Cuddy goes to retrieve the abandoned body. Instead, she finds that the infant has survived and has been kept alive by a homeless couple. She convinces them to give her the baby so she can take her to the hospital to care for her.
At the age of 29, she lied about her age (saying she was 31) in order to get a Vice-President position at PPTH. Cuddy was married for six days in 1987 in New Jersey, as revealed in the Season 7 episode Small Sacrifices and the marriage ended in divorce. No further information about her brief marriage or about the identity of her husband was given. In the Season 5 episode The Social Contract, she claimed to be 38. However, House had been working for Cuddy for eight years prior to the beginning of Season 1, and House owed her 6 years of clinic duty in the show's pilot.
With everything on the line, Cuddy forges a prescription record and perjures herself to make it appear that House stole nothing but a placebo. Shortly after becoming Dean of Medicine, Cuddy was approached by House once again. He had recently been fired from yet another job - the fourth time. Her official explanation is that House "came cheap" (i.e. she didn't have to pay him much). However, there has been a great deal of speculation as to why she did hire him. She has also carefully avoided questions about why she hasn't fired him, except to constantly describe House as "the best doctor we've got".
However, House finds out she lied to him when she didn't accept free tickets he offered him. It was revealed it the episode Lucky Thirteen, Cuddy will soon be adopting a baby. When the baby's mother subsequently chooses to keep the child, House and Cuddy kiss after House consoles Cuddy in Joy. When House goes through an extremely painful withdrawal from Vicodin in Under My Skin Cuddy is there to assist him throughout the process. The two both admit their feelings for one another, and the episode ends with House and Cuddy passionately kissing.
However, House manages to save her by firing her himself and then rehiring her. Lisa Cuddy went to the University of Michigan where she was in the pre-med program and, in addition, audited classes in their medical school. During this time, she met Gregory House, who was working at the university bookstore during the time he was appealing his expulsion from Johns Hopkins Medical School. In the Season 7 episode Small Sacrifices her age is established as forty-two, with her forty-third birthday approaching. She tells House that she lied to Human Resources about her age when she first applied for a vice president of administration job at age twenty-nine, because she thought she would be taken more seriously if she were in her early thirties. In addition to this professional tension, Cuddy is also seen as the object of House's sexual and romantic fantasies.
Throughout Season 6, Cuddy is busy with her adopted daughter and is in a relationship with a private investigator, Lucas, who was hired by House to spy on Wilson at the start of Season 5. She cared for House after he goes through rehab for Vicodin. After sensing romantic feelings from House, Cuddy tells House that she would like to be friends; but he refuses, quoting that is the "last thing he wants".
House's feelings were hurt by Cuddy's deception, although he doesn't show it. Afterwards, House breaks into Lucas' home in a "drunk" stupor, and confesses his feelings for Cuddy. She shows up at his place the next day and tells him that she and Lucas broke up.
Cuddy once again offers him a good job if he comes back, but Foreman turns her down flat. However, when Foreman finds out he's unemployable, he agrees to Cuddy's conditions, but she withdraws her offer and instead insists Foreman return at his old salary and stay on House's team to keep an eye on him. Behind House's back, Cuddy hired Cameron to be the senior attending physician in the emergency room. She also learns that Chase wants to be close to Cameron, despite the fact he has other options available.
She confronted House about his Vicodin use and broke up with him. Once again, Cuddy risks her career by playing chicken with the hospital's largest insurance company Atlantic Net. When they offer her a 4 percent across-the-board increase for procedures, she demands 12 percent and threatens to cut off their contract. They come back with 8 percent, but she still holds out and, when the deadline passes, she announces the contract is over. With no response, she is willing to admit defeat and go to the board to resign when the insurance company rep comes back with a new contract agreeing to the full increase.
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