Yesterday, we reported that Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged former madam of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, had been ordered to clean up her dirty and smelly prison cell.

Now, Maxwell is firing back to claim that her cell is only an unsanitary mess because of a broken sewage system in her prison, not because she’s not flushing her toilet, as prosecutors have claimed.

“The government’s letter provides the opportunity to flush out the persistent unsanitary conditions at the MDC, which long predate Ms. Maxwell’s detention,” Maxwell’s lawyer Bobbi Sternheim wrote in a letter to prosecutors on Wednesday night, according to The New York Post. She went on to talk about the alleged sewage problems at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where the 59 year-old disgraced British socialite is being held.

“This past weekend there was a pervasive stench of sewage in Ms. Maxwell’s unit necessitating guards to flush pipes by pouring water down open drains in an effort to trap and disperse gaseous emissions,” Sternheim wrote. “At times the stench in Ms. Maxwell’s isolation cell has been overwhelming due to overflowing of toilets in the cellblock above.”

Sternheim went on to say that Maxwell tries not to use the bathroom in her cell, “due to lack of privacy,” but added that she flushes her toilet frequently as the guards ask her to.

This came a day after prosecutors sent a letter to federal Judge Alison Nathan claiming that guards at the facility have forced Maxwell to clean the cell after she let it become “very dirty.”

“MDC staff directed the defendant to clean her cell because it had become very dirty. Among other things, MDC staff noted that the defendant frequently did not flush her toilet after using it, which caused the cell to smell,” they wrote.

Sternheim, however, claimed in her letter that prosecutors have painted an inaccurately rosy picture of what life in prison is like for Maxwell.

“The government’s review of the MDC may be Yelp-worthy, but it does not justify Ms. Maxwell’s inappropriate detention,” Sternheim wrote.

Maxwell was arrested last July on various sex charges related to her grooming young girls for sex with Epstein, and sometimes participating in the abuse herself. She has since been denied bail three times by Judge Nathan, who has deemed Maxwell to pose a significant flight risk given her immense wealth and international connections. Maxwell has been remanded to federal custody until her trial, which is scheduled to begin this coming July.