A bombshell new lawsuit paints a damning picture of the behind-the-scene culture at reality TV giant Bravo as a dysfunctional club that “thrives off” hard drugs, encourages alcohol abuse and turns a blind eye to sexually predatory behavior.
Court documents filed on Tuesday by one of its former stars, Leah McSweeney, even claim that it’s an open secret that the network’s figurehead, Andy Cohen, snorts cocaine with a coterie of his favorite “Real Housewives” stars, and doles out special professional favors to his employees-cum-personal-party-pals.
Meanwhile, the papers claim that the network is aware that a different senior producer “routinely sends unsolicited pictures of [their] genitalia to lower-level… production employees,” but the papers claim that higher-ups have done nothing to stop it.
The shock claims are part of a lawsuit in which McSweeney, 41, claims that the network preyed on her alcohol problem, either by intentionally exacerbating it or by preventing her from seeking help with it, in a cynical attempt to turn her suffering into ratings.
The fashion designer, who appeared on two seasons of flagship show, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” and one season of spin-off “Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip,” claims that the network breached her rights under employment law by failing to allow her to get proper care for her alcohol addiction, even though executives were aware of the problem.
Indeed, she claims producers “pressured her” to drink, even though they knew she was trying to stop.
She’s seeking unspecified damages. A rep for Cohen told : “The claims against Andy are completely false.”
The news comes days after fellow “Real Housewives” star Brandi Glanville claimed in a legal letter that an “obviously inebriated” Cohen sexually harassed her by telling her that he wanted to “sleep with another Bravo star” while “thinking” of Glanville…
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