Drama is ongoing off-cameras. Andy Cohen simply responded to Leah McSweeney’s lawsuit towards him. The Actual Housewives of New York alum filed a lawsuit towards Cohen, Bravo, NBCUniversal, manufacturing firm Shed Media and varied producers, on February 27, 2024. The lawsuit claims that they breached her rights underneath employment regulation by failing to permit her to get correct take care of her alcohol dependancy, regardless that executives had been conscious of the issue.
In 2004, Andy Cohen grew to become the Vice President of Unique Programming of Bravo. He later grew to become the Govt Vice President of Improvement and Expertise at Bravo, which he continued to work as till 2013 when he stepped right down to focus his efforts on Bravo’s Actual Housewives franchise. In 2009, Cohen additionally premiered his late-night discuss present, Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen.
Within the bombshell lawsuit, McSweeney claims that “Cohen tends to offer the Housewives with whom he makes use of cocaine with extra favorable therapy and [makes them appear more agreeably in] edits [of their shows].” Although the lawsuit doesn’t title the Housewives in query, the lawsuit futher claims that “Cohen deliberately makes use of cocaine together with his staff to additional promote a office tradition that thrives off drug and alcohol use, which results in a failure to accommodate staff who’re disabled and making an attempt to remain substance free.”
McSweeney has been open about her struggles with alcohol dependancy and alleged that Cohen and producers had been coercing the solid to take alcohol. The lawsuit states that the“defendants with the data that Ms. McSweeney struggled with alcohol use dysfunction, colluded together with her colleagues to stress Ms. McSweeney to drink, retaliated towards her when she needed to remain sober, and deliberately failed to offer affordable lodging that may help her efforts to remain sober and capable of carry out.”
On the night time that the lawsuit, Andy Cohen lastly responded. A consultant for Cohen instructed Deadline, “the claims towards Andy are utterly false!”
Leah McSweeney took to Instagram to touch upon the state of affairs. “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,” she wrote. “I could also be a pariah to them after this, however I do hope my lawsuit helps actuality TV to align with its true goal: to authentically depict the complexities of life whereas providing real help to those that share their tales.
