After former “Real Housewives of New York City” star Leah McSweeney filed a lawsuit against Bravo and its figurehead Andy Cohen, claiming that they had cynically attempted to exploit her alcohol problem in an attempt to draw huge ratings, a string of so-called “Bravolebrities” rushed to speak out in support of Cohen.
Many said he was “professional” and claimed they’d never felt pressured to drink, others responded to the claim in McSweeney’s lawsuit that Cohen had used cocaine with cast members by saying he had never offered them drugs.
One, Margaret Josephs of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” went so far as to say: “Those allegations are nothing but to assassinate his character and that is disgusting.” She added: “I am appalled that someone would just go so low to assassinate and target someone’s character in that way.”
(A rep for Cohen has said that McSweeney’s claims against him are “completely false” and his attorney has said that McSweeney’s cocaine claims are an attempt to embarrass Cohen in an attempt to win a settlement.)
Now McSweeney’s publicist has addressed those responses, saying that McSweeney’s suit was only ever intended to address her own very specific set of circumstances: that, as the suit claimed, “RHONY” producers had previously had ratings success when their cast had seemed emotionally unstable on camera and that they’d tried to push her into the same state in hopes of replicating their earlier viewership triumphs.
“Leah has never claimed to speak for anyone else,” a rep for the designer-turned-reality-star told , “She… filed this lawsuit based on her own lived experiences. The claims in Leah’s lawsuit are about Leah’s experiences at Bravo and Leah’s experiences only. She’s not attempting to tell anyone else’s truth, but she won’t let anyone deny her truth either.”
The rep added: “Imagine a female employee making…
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