'RHONY' Star Leah McSweeney Sues Andy Cohen and Bravo | T53EL0D | 2024-02-28 13:08:01
Leah McSweeney has filed a civil lawsuit towards Bravo and Andy Cohen after her expertise filming Real Housewives of New York City and Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip.
Based on courtroom paperwork obtained by Page Six on Tuesday, February 27, the truth star and her attorneys allege Cohen, 55, and the community deliberately preyed on McSweeney's wrestle with alcoholism in an attempt to score huge scores.
"This isn't a narrative I ever thought I might be telling; actually, I used to be petrified to talk on it and was warned not to," McSweeney, 41, stated by way of an Instagram submit hours after the go well with was filed. "Your favourite Bravo exhibits are run by individuals who create a harmful work setting, encourage substance abuse to artificially create drama and cynically prey on the vulnerabilities of their staff."
While McSweeney stated a number of the tales detailed in the lawsuit have been proven in edited type on TV, viewers might study rather more as the case performs out in New York.
"There might be far more that comes out once the individuals concerned are questioned beneath oath. In the present day I am taking back my reality," she stated. "The reckless and diabolical method through which the individuals on the prime drool over the mishaps and misfortunes of the ladies including myself are disturbing. It's a office tradition where toxicity, alcoholism and pain usually are not solely anticipated but encouraged and facilitated. That's something I most undoubtedly did not sign up for nor would I ever endorse."
McSweeney appeared in two seasons of Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis between 2020 and 2021 and one season of the spinoff Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip in 2023.
In the go well with, McSweeney stated she advised producers earlier than her first season that she'd been sober for 30 days and dealing to maintain her sobriety.
As an alternative of providing sufficient care and help throughout her filming expertise, McSweeney and her legal workforce alleged in the lawsuit that producers pressured her to drink in all three seasons.
"There's nothing more necessary than my sobriety, with out it I danger dropping the whole lot," McSweeney stated by way of Instagram. "I have been very transparent about my habit and restoration, nevertheless there are private things within the lawsuit that I never needed to reveal for worry of being judged and shamed, but I am at some extent now in my life the place I feel robust sufficient to face up to no matter might come my method."
While McSweeney stated she has "love and respect for many" of the Bravo expertise she has met and labored with through the years, she hopes her lawsuit "helps actuality TV to align with its true objective: to authentically depict the complexities of life whereas providing genuine help to those who share their stories."
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"I've been making an attempt to deal with this internally for years now however have been dismissed, stone-walled, and gaslit (however truly) at each flip since," she stated. "Bravo can attempt to manipulate my reality and others' all they need, but the chilly arduous information of this case are as actual because it gets. Thanks to my close family and friends and naturally @adelmanmatz who've supported me in each troublesome however mandatory step of this journey. I will see you in courtroom."
Us Weekly has reached out to Bravo, Cohen's rep and McSweeney's attorneys for comment.
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