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 Ladies Journey.
Manzo, 62, filed a lawsuit towards the community and its manufacturing firms on Friday, January 26. Within the lawsuit, obtained by Us Weekly, Manzo claims Bravo would commonly push the present’s stars to drink alcohol to “trigger them to turn out to be severely intoxicated, after which direct, encourage and/or enable them to sexually harass different forged members as a result of that’s for good scores.”
It was reported in January 2023 that Manzo and Glanville, 51, left Final Ladies 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 forged 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 “acutely aware effort to be type to Glanville” after an argument throughout filming.
In the course of the night, Glanville allegedly “unfold 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 once more. Manzo was very uncomfortable,” the docs state. “Glanville then 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.”
The docs state that the alleged assault introduced up “dormant and horrific recollections” 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 towards Manzo” till Manzo was in a position to break away. “Defendants have been extra centered on the continuation of the present relatively than the well being and well-being of Manzo after she was sexually abused,” the docs state.
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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 one thing. And you then get in hassle for it. The producers must comply with the principles,” Glanvilleshe wrote by way of X on the time. “Producers might not shove the alcohol down our throats, however they positive do encourage it even in Morocco in the course of the day the place it’s unlawful 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 group responded to Manzo’s lawsuit in an announcement to Us, writing, “Sadly, Brandi needed to get up to one more lawsuit that features defamatory, false accusations about her. Whereas filming, Brandi adopted what the producers requested of her, and there was no sexual assault. She is harmless of those absurd accusations which have weighed on her psychological and bodily well being for much too lengthy with no phrase of help from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.”
The assertion continued: “This painful storytelling appears infinite and must cease. She is trying to transfer on and upward and get her life again.”
In April 2023, Manzo declared that she would “by no means” return to the Actual Housewives franchise following the alleged incident. “It was one thing that I used to be completed with and comfortable to be completed with it. I walked away for a purpose,” she stated throughout an interview on the “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast. “I at all times stated for me to return, it must be a quantity that was financially irresponsible to stroll 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 hypothesis about [RHUGT season 4]; Bravo jumped Legacy to the entrance of the road,” he instructed The Wrap on the time. “It’s there, it’s completed and I hope everybody sees it quickly.”
For those who or somebody has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
