Feb. 28 2024, Revealed 4:00 p.m. ET
Leah McSweeney is not simply hurling allegations towards Bravo daddy Andy Cohen. McSweeney additionally slammed her former Actual Housewives of New York costar Ramona Singer, claiming Bravo producers “colluded” with the outspoken pocket rocket to “out” her bipolar prognosis and “falsely” unfold rumors that she “abused” her treatment with alcohol.
In McSweeney’s lawsuit obtained by RadarOnline.com, Leah mentioned the ordeal triggered her “excessive anxiousness and despair.”
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The ex-Bravo star used the ordeal with Singer to again up her accusations that she needed to be institutionalized in a psychiatric facility due to the alleged hostile work atmosphere on RHONY.
As this outlet reported, McSweeney filed a federal lawsuit towards Cohen, Warner Bros Discovery, Shed Media, Bravo Media, and NBCUniversal earlier this week. Whereas Singer is talked about within the swimsuit, she is just not being sued.
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In line with McSweeney, “Upon info and perception, Defendants colluded with fellow RHONY forged member, Ramona Singer (‘Singer’), to ‘out’ Ms. McSweeney’s confidential bipolar dysfunction prognosis earlier than Ms. McSweeney disclosed it publicly.”
She additionally claimed on account of the producer’s alleged “plan,” Singer “maliciously rumored to different forged members that Ms. McSweeney suffered from bipolar dysfunction,” and that Ramona did not cease there.
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“Singer acknowledged that Ms. McSweeney’s habits whereas ingesting might be attributed to each Ms. McSweeney’s bipolar prognosis and falsely posited that Ms. McSweeney abused her bipolar prescription treatment by combining that prescription with alcohol,” the lawsuit learn.
Leah mentioned she complained about Singer “outing” her psychological well being prognosis, which she alleged “triggered her to undergo excessive anxiousness and despair, thereby exacerbating her disclosed psychological well being disabilities.” She claimed that as a substitute of serving to, producers allegedly “shamed” and “gaslit” her.
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“Defendant Producers had an obligation to accommodate Ms. McSweeney or have interaction in an interactive course of with Ms. McSweeney to develop a mutually agreed upon lodging, however Defendant Producers once more failed to take action,” she alleged within the swimsuit.
“As a substitute Defendant Producers shamed Ms. McSweeney for complaining of despair and anxiousness as a direct results of Singer’s actions. Defendant Producers even tried to gaslight Ms. McSweeney into falsely believing that her worsened psychological well being signs didn’t exist,” McSweeney continued.
RadarOnline.com has reached out to Singer’s rep and NBCUniversal for remark.
We instructed you — McSweeney, who appeared in two seasons of RHONY and Actual Housewives: Final Ladies Journey, claimed that producers “pressured” her to drink regardless of understanding about her alcohol habit and didn’t get her assist when she spiraled in entrance of their eyes.
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She additionally claimed she confronted retaliation and was not recast on RHONY attributable to her “incapacity, together with [Sweeney’s] failure to relapse into her alcohol use dysfunction.”
The truth star alleged the “hostile work atmosphere,” which “considerably altered the phrases of her employment,” reportedly “triggered [Sweeney] to undergo suicidal ideations, triggered [Sweeney] to turn into institutionalized in a psychiatric facility and has continued to trigger ongoing psychological ache and struggling.”
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McSweeney dropped a bombshell accusation towards Cohen, too, claiming that he “favors Housewives that ‘play ball’ together with his proclivity for substance abuse and discriminates towards the sober Housewives that, due to their substance use problems, can not.”
She alleged that Cohen did medicine with Bravolebrities and “tends to offer the Housewives with whom he makes use of cocaine with extra favorable therapy and edits.”
Cohen denied the allegations, with a spokesperson telling RadarOnline.com, “The claims towards Andy are completely false.”