A WOMAN has been arrested after setting her roommate on fire – after he threw out her spaghetti.

Florida woman Melissa Dawn Sellers (33) became enraged after roommate Carlos Ortiz threw out her spaghetti and meatballs.

She allegedly doused Ortiz in nail polish remover before setting him on fire.

“She was setting little objects on fire, then that turned into pouring nail polish remover all over him, and then all of a sudden, the lighter sparked and he lit on fire,” the victim's friend Ines Causevic told local station Bay News 9.

Ortiz took Sellers in after she lost her job in Wal-Mart and could no longer afford her rent.

He was rushed to hospital where he currently remains in a critical condition, with burns to his face and body.

“When he got up, his face was like melting off,” Causevic said. “His lips were burning.”

Sellers has been charged with aggravated battery – she has already been convicted for battery in 2008.

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