DETROIT, MI -- You may

remember ex-Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers

, the wife of senior Congressman John Conyers, from the time she called Councilman Ken Cockrel "Shrek," got a black eye in a bar fight or got busted accepting bribes.

She's largely stayed out of the public eye since completing her 37-month federal sentence in 2013, but she's back.

Detroit News first reported on the lawsuit Thursday.

Monica Conyers, while waiting at Detroit Metropolitan Airport to catch a flight to see her husband, John Conyers, D-Detroit, be sworn into office in Washington, D.C., cut her hand while pulling out her chair at a McDonald's restaurant, the Detroit News reports.

After the injury, Monica Conyers received help from police and paramedics, who offered her gauze and pads for the bloody injury, the Detroit News reports. Following the flight, she sought medical attention, claiming she'd been seriously injured.

The lawsuit is filed in Wayne County's Third Circuit Court and requests compensation of over $25,000.

JamJomar Inc., the owner of the McDonald's franchise location, is listed as the defendant.