Caroline Manzo is taking prison motion in opposition to Bravo over an alleged incident involving her and Brandi Glanville right through manufacturing on season 4 of The Actual Housewives Final Ladies Shuttle.
Manzo, 62, filed a lawsuit in opposition to the community and its manufacturing firms on Friday, January 26. Within the lawsuit, bought by means of Us Weekly, Manzo claims Bravo would steadily push the display’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 used to be reported in January 2023 that Manzo and Glanville, 51, left Final Ladies Shuttle filming in Morocco early after Glanville allegedly kissed Manzo more than one instances with out her consent.
The lawsuit supplies extra main points of the alleged come across, with Manzo claiming that Glanville didn't attend a sexual harassment elegance required of all RHUGT solid contributors 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 issue right through filming.
All through the night, Glanville allegedly “spread Manzo’s legs and leaned into Manzo,” and then Manzo moved clear of her. “Glanville proceeded to kiss Manzo with a closed mouth. Glanville then kissed Manzo again. Manzo was very uncomfortable,” the doctors 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 doctors state that the alleged attack introduced up “dormant and horrific memories” for Manzo of a sexual attack she skilled at age 7, inflicting her to go into “a state of shock.”
Glanville allegedly pursued Manzo once more in the toilet by means of urgent “her breasts and vagina against Manzo” till Manzo used to be in a position to 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 doctors state.
Glanville isn't indexed as a defendant within the lawsuit and in the past declared her innocence in a chain 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 the use 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 had been featured within the lawsuit doctors.
Us Weekly has reached out to Bravo in regards to the lawsuit. The community had no remark.
Glanville’s prison crew answered to Manzo’s lawsuit in a commentary 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 commentary persisted: “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” go back 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 mentioned right through an interview at 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, used to be hospitalized after collapsing in her house in October 2023. Previous this month, she claimed her well being problems had been brought about by means of the tension 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 used to be dubbed RHONY: Legacy, on the other hand, did get started streaming on Peacock after season 3 concluded. At BravoCon in November 2023, Andy Cohen denied that season 4 have 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.”
For those who or any individual you realize has been sexually assaulted, touch the Nationwide Sexual Attack Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).