Caroline Manzo has filed a lawsuit towards Bravo over an alleged “traumatic” incident with Brandi Glanville whereas on The Actual Housewives Final Ladies Journey in Morocco in early 2023.
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by ET, the Actual Housewives of New Jersey alum claims the incident that crossed the road occurred someday on Jan. 24, 2023 as they have been filming the Housewives spinoff. Manzo additionally claims in court docket paperwork {that a} “clearly intoxicated” Glanville walked over to her that evening on the sofa, “spread Manzo’s legs and leaned into Manzo. She then laid her head on Manzo’s inner thigh.”
Manzo says she pulled away and moved to the top of the sofa. After establishing she’s a mere 5 toes tall and Glanville is nearly a foot taller than her, Manzo claims Glanville sat subsequent to her on the sofa and “proceeded to kiss Manzo with a closed mouth.”
“Glanville then kissed Manzo again. Manzo was very uncomfortable,” the court docket paperwork declare. “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.”
Manzo claims she tried to push Glanville off, however alleges that “Glanville was restraining Manzo with her much greater weight, size and strength and was unable to free herself.”
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey alum recalled a sexual assault she skilled when she was seven years previous, and alleged that “Glanville’s sexual assault made all of those dormant and horrific memories immediately resurface.”
The court docket paperwork state that Manzo “felt like she was seven years old and began to relive her previous sexual assaults in the context of this sexual assault. She was in a state of shock.”
Later that night whereas on the dinner desk, Manzo claims Glanville adopted her to the lavatory after which “Glanville started massaging [her] breasts.” Manzo says she objected and advised her, “I think it’s time for you to leave” whereas including, “I got abused.”
Manzo claims she texted her husband and kids that very same night to inform them concerning the alleged sexual assault. That very same night, Manzo claims she sobbed after two manufacturing heads requested her what occurred within the rest room. The subsequent morning, on Jan. 25, 2023, Manzo claims she acquired a textual content message from Glanville, saying, “I’m sorry I made you feel uncomfortable.” Manzo didn’t reply to the alleged textual content.
Whereas Manzo mentions Glanville all through the lawsuit, Manzo doesn’t title her as a defendant. As a substitute, Manzo is suing Bravo, NBCUniversal, Peacock and Shed Media (the producers behind the present), claiming the defendants “regularly ply the Real Housewives cast with alcohol and cause them to become severely intoxicated, and then direct, encourage and/or allow them to sexually harass other cast members because that is good for ratings.”
ET has reached out to NBC, Bravo’s guardian firm, and a spokesperson had no touch upon the lawsuit. TMZ was first to interrupt information of the lawsuit.
Peacock, the platform that streams RHUGT and — like Bravo — is owned and operated by NBC, launched an announcement in February 2023 following the alleged incident that led to Manzo and Glanville exiting the collection.
“The safety and security of cast and crew while shooting is extremely important and we take all reports seriously,” representatives from each Peacock and Shed Media stated in an announcement to ET. “In this situation, production immediately launched a comprehensive review and is taking appropriate action.”
The next month, in March 2023, Glanville broke her silence on the alleged incident that occurred between her and Manzo whereas filming season 4 of The Actual Housewives Final Ladies Journey. In response to Individuals, Glanville, 51, and Manzo, 62, exited the collection on the finish of January after the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum allegedly took issues too far with Manzo throughout a celebration, kissing her a number of instances all through the night with out her consent.
“It was unwanted,” a supply advised the outlet. “And Caroline’s distress over the matter did not seem to stop Brandi. Things escalated and physical boundaries allegedly were crossed that Caroline felt were serious and uncomfortable.”
Glanville would later take to social media and make quite a few statements, together with that she and Manzo have been “very intoxicated” in the course of the alleged incident and that she’d prefer to see footage from that day of filming.
Then in April, Manzo appeared on the Two T’s in a Pod podcast and vowed “never” to go on one other Ladies Journey once more as a result of the alleged incident with Glanville in Morocco proved too traumatic.
“This is very traumatic for me,” Manzo stated on the time. “This is a really large onion with a lot of layers and I guess it will play out. That statement is disappointing to me. I don’t want to talk too much about it because I’m going through a lot with it and I’m processing it all.”
Glanville spoke to ET final month about her well being problems, which she attributes to the sexual assault accusation towards her by Manzo.
Glanville revealed that her bodily nightmare started in August when her lips and face unexpectedly swelled up, accompanied by anaphylactic shock.
“I’ve had some health issues that have affected my ability to talk. My ability to taste food, my face basically would swell up, like I would have anaphylactic shock, go into anaphylactic shock constantly and I saw seven doctors and their answer to it was it was stress-induced angioedema,” Glanville stated.
Glanville was finally identified with stress-induced angioedema, a situation the place swelling happens below the pores and skin.
As for what went down in Morocco, Glanville would solely say that the ladies journeys “are the Wild West” and that it is difficult to “work 19-hour days and be fueled with alcohol all day.”
“No, they don’t force you but they want you to and you want to please the producers. I think that you know when we’re all exhausted and we’re doing 20 events a day working 19 hours, fully wasted it’s not a safe environment for any of us and that’s what the girls trips are,” she claimed.
Peacock had no touch upon Glanville’s claims, nor an replace on when the Final Ladies Journey in Morocco will air.
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