Warning: This text accommodates particulars of an allegation of sexual harassment. Reader discretion is suggested.
Brandi Glanville, star of The Actual Housewives franchise, has begun authorized motion in opposition to Andy Cohen – the manager producer of the franchise and host of Watch What Occurs Reside — accusing the Bravo community head of sexual harassment.
Glanville — who’s dealing with her personal accusations of sexual misconduct with Bravo on the set of Actual Housewives: Final Ladies’ Journey — despatched a letter from her authorized workforce to NBCUniversal (the father or mother firm for Bravo), Shed Media, and Shed’s father or mother firm Warner Bros., which has been obtained by Selection.
Within the letter, Glanville contends that an “clearly inebriated” Andy Cohen despatched her a video message, through which he made clear “his intention to sleep with one other Bravo star that evening whereas pondering of her and invited her to observe through Facetime.”
Based on the doc, Glanville was left “trapped” and “disgusted,” resulting from Cohen’s place of authority on the Bravo community. On Twitter, Cohen publicly addressed the accusations detailed within the letter, whereas revealing that the second Bravo star talked about within the doc was his buddy and Under Deck star, Kate Chastain.
“The video exhibits Kate Chastain and I very clearly joking to Brandi. It was completely meant in jest,” Cohen wrote on Twitter. Within the publish, Cohen claimed that on the time it was clear that it was in jest, and Glanville supposedly took it as one. “Brandi’s response clearly communicated she was in on the joke,” the host continued.
Nonetheless, the 55-year-old ended the publish with an apology to Glanville. “That mentioned, it was completely inappropriate and I apologize.”
Brandi Glanville’s letter will not be the primary time the WWHL presenter, who’s overtly homosexual, has been accused of inappropriate conduct in the direction of ladies. In 2014, Cohen acquired backlash from viewers when he requested for a selfie with visitor Nicki Minaj’s buttocks, which Minaj promptly rejected.
As for Glanville’s personal accusations of sexual harassment, Glanville’s Ladies’ Journey co-star and fellow housewife Caroline Manzo’s lawsuit in opposition to the Bravo Community is seemingly nonetheless ongoing. Based on the authorized paperwork, Manzo alleges Glanville “proceeded to mount Manzo on the sofa holding Manzo down together with her physique, forcibly squeezed Manzo’s cheeks collectively and thrust her tongue in Manzo’s mouth, whereas humping her,” and “compelled her vagina” in opposition to Manzo’s again.
Glanville has claimed that the accusations have saved her out of labor for six months, forcing her to hitch OnlyFans looking for a gradual revenue. The Ladies’ Journey sequence is claimed to have been completely scrapped, and can by no means make it to air.
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