Andy Cohen snorts cocaine with coterie of favorite ‘Housewives,’ bombshell Leah McSweeney lawsuit claims

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By Oli Coleman

A bombshell new lawsuit paints a damning image of the behind-the-scene tradition at actuality TV big Bravo as a dysfunctional membership that “thrives off” exhausting medication, encourages alcohol abuse and turns a blind eye to sexually predatory habits.

Courtroom paperwork filed on Tuesday by considered one of its former stars, Leah McSweeney, even declare that it’s an open secret that the community’s figurehead, Andy Cohen, snorts cocaine with a coterie of his favourite “Actual Housewives” stars, and doles out particular skilled favors to his employees-cum-personal-party-pals.

In the meantime, the papers declare that the community is conscious {that a} completely different senior producer “routinely sends unsolicited photos of [their] genitalia to lower-level… manufacturing staff,” however the papers declare that higher-ups have carried out nothing to cease it.

The shock claims are a part of a lawsuit by which McSweeney, 41, claims that the network preyed on her alcohol problem, both by deliberately exacerbating it or by stopping her from in search of assist with it, in a cynical try to show her struggling into rankings.

The style designer, who appeared on two seasons of flagship present, “The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis,” and one season of spin-off “Actual Housewives: Final Women Journey,” claims that the community breached her rights below employment regulation by failing to permit her to get correct look after her alcohol habit, regardless that executives had been conscious of the issue.

Certainly, she claims producers “pressured her” to drink, regardless that they knew she was making an attempt to cease.

She’s in search of unspecified damages. A rep for Cohen instructed Web page Six: “The claims in opposition to Andy are fully false.”

The information comes days after fellow “Actual Housewives” star Brandi Glanville claimed in a legal letter that an “clearly inebriated” Cohen sexually harassed her by telling her that he wished to “sleep with one other Bravo star” whereas “pondering” of Glanville and invited her to observe over FaceTime.

(Cohen has claimed that the comment was meant “in jest” however conceded that it was “inappropriate.”)

Whereas making a case that the community thrives on a tradition that “thrives off drug and alcohol use,” McSweeney’s lawsuit claims that Cohen, 55 — who’s an govt producer of “RHONY” and “RHUGT” and hosts Bravo’s late night time present, “Watch What Occurs Dwell” — “engages in cocaine use with Housewives that he employs” and that “Cohen’s proclivity for cocaine utilization along with his staff is well-known all through the Actual Housewives franchise.”

“In actual fact,” declare the papers filed within the Southern District of New York, “Cohen tends to offer the Housewives with whom he makes use of cocaine with extra favorable remedy and [makes them appear more agreeably in] edits [of their shows].”

It doesn’t identify the “Housewives” forged members in query.

McSweeney’s powerhouse attorneys allege within the paperwork that, “Cohen deliberately makes use of cocaine along with his staff to additional promote a office tradition that thrives off drug and alcohol use, which ends up in a failure to accommodate staff who’re disabled and making an attempt to remain substance free.”

In the meantime, the papers declare {that a} producer employed by Shed Media, which makes “RHONY” and “RHUGT” in addition to numerous different “Actual Housewives” reveals, “routinely sends unsolicited photos of [their] genitalia to lower-level…manufacturing staff.”

It additionally alleges that regardless that Bravo and Shed “know or ought to find out about [the producer’s] sexual harassment, [they] proceed to raise [the producer] to positions of elevated energy.”

These claims are a part of McSweeney’s go well with as a result of her attorneys declare within the courtroom paperwork that “by failing to take acceptable remedial motion [Bravo and Shed] tacitly ship the message to [the producer] and all different staff that they will interact in illegal employment practices with impunity.”

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McSweeney, who appeared on “RHONY” from 2020 till 2021 after which “RHUGT” in 2023, is suing Cohen, Bravo, Shed Media — a manufacturing firm that makes each reveals — and Warner Media, which owns Shed.

In 2017, Cohen’s former pal and CNN New 12 months’s Eve co-host Kathy Griffin claimed that Cohen supplied her cocaine earlier than she appeared on “What’s What Occurs Dwell” on two separate events. Cohen stated on the time: “I’m fully surprised by this story. It’s 100% false and completely made up.”

Bravo, Warner Bros. Discovery and Shed didn’t instantly get again to us.