Caroline Manzo is taking authorized motion towards Bravo over an alleged incident involving her and Brandi Glanville throughout manufacturing on season 4 of The Actual Housewives Final Women Journey.
Manzo, 62, filed a lawsuit towards the community and its manufacturing corporations on Friday, January 26. Within the lawsuit, obtained by Us Weekly, Manzo claims Bravo would usually push the present’s stars to drink alcohol to “cause them to become severely intoxicated, and then direct, encourage and/or allow them to sexually harass other cast members because that is for good ratings.”
It was reported in January 2023 that Manzo and Glanville, 51, left Final Women Journey filming in Morocco early after Glanville allegedly kissed Manzo a number of occasions with out her consent.
The lawsuit supplies extra particulars of the alleged encounter, with Manzo claiming that Glanville didn’t attend a sexual harassment class required of all RHUGT solid members earlier than filming and that Bravo didn’t reprimand Glanville for allegedly skipping the category. Manzo states that the alleged incident started after she made a “conscious effort to be kind to Glanville” after an argument throughout filming.
Through the night, Glanville allegedly “spread Manzo’s legs and leaned into Manzo,” after which Manzo moved away from her. “Glanville proceeded to kiss Manzo with a closed mouth. Glanville then kissed Manzo again. Manzo was very uncomfortable,” the docs state. “Glanville then proceeded to mount Manzo on the couch holding Manzo down with her body, forcibly squeezed Manzo’s cheeks together and thrust her tongue in Manzo’s mouth, while humping her.”
The docs state that the alleged assault introduced up “dormant and horrific memories” for Manzo of a sexual assault she skilled at age 7, inflicting her to enter “a state of shock.”
Glanville allegedly pursued Manzo once more within the rest room by urgent “her breasts and vagina against Manzo” till Manzo was capable of break away. “Defendants were more focused on the continuation of the show rather than the health and well-being of Manzo after she was sexually abused,” the docs state.
Glanville just isn’t listed as a defendant within the lawsuit and beforehand declared her innocence in a collection of December 2023 tweets.
“The producers ask you to do something. And then you get in trouble for it. The producers need to follow the rules,” Glanvilleshe wrote by way of X on the time. “Producers may not shove the alcohol down our throats, but they sure do encourage it even in Morocco during the day where it’s illegal to drink!” Screenshots of the tweets have been featured within the lawsuit docs.
Us Weekly has reached out to Bravo concerning the lawsuit. The community had no remark.
Glanville’s authorized workforce responded to Manzo’s lawsuit in an announcement to Us, writing, “Sadly, Brandi had to wake up to yet another lawsuit that includes defamatory, false accusations about her. While filming, Brandi followed what the producers asked of her, and there was no sexual assault. She is innocent of these absurd accusations that have weighed on her mental and physical health for far too long without a word of support from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.”
The assertion continued: “This painful storytelling seems endless and needs to stop. She is looking to move on and upward and get her life back.”
In April 2023, Manzo declared that she would “never” return to the Actual Housewives franchise following the alleged incident. “It was something that I was done with and happy to be done with it. I walked away for a reason,” she stated throughout an interview on the “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast. “I always said for me to go back, it would have to be a number that was financially irresponsible to walk away from.”
Glanville, in the meantime, was hospitalized after collapsing in her house in October 2023. Earlier this month, she claimed her well being points have been brought on by the stress she skilled from filming RHUGT season 4 and her drama with Manzo.
Bravo has but to formally pull the plug on season 4 of RHUGT, which additionally featured Vicki Gunvalson, Eva Marcille, Phaedra Parks, Camille Meyer, Alex McCord and Gretchen Rossi. Season 5, which was dubbed RHONY: Legacy, nevertheless, did begin streaming on Peacock after season 3 concluded. At BravoCon in November 2023, Andy Cohen denied that season 4 had been canceled.
“There’s all this speculation about [RHUGT season 4]; Bravo jumped Legacy to the front of the line,” he instructed The Wrap on the time. “It’s there, it’s done and I hope everyone sees it soon.”
In the event you or somebody you understand has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).