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Ms. McSweeney mentioned on the video name that she had determined to take part in “Housewives of New York City” as a result of she thought it might be an incredible alternative. But as soon as she joined the solid, she mentioned, echoing her grievance, “Every single factor that was mentioned to me was coded language for, ‘You higher drink.’”
“I knew that there was going to be drama and combating, after all,” she mentioned. “You know persons are going to like you generally, they’re going to hate you generally — you already know you’re going to be considerably objectified and also you’re there to entertain, et cetera. I simply didn’t know that the company and the producers and the community additionally sort of appeared on the ladies in the identical manner because the viewers does. I assumed we’d be just a little bit extra humanized by them.”
Ms. McSweeney, after showing within the twelfth and thirteenth seasons of “Housewives of New York City,” didn’t return for the present’s 14th season. But after filming “Housewives,” she joined the solid of a by-product, “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip,” for its third season, which aired final yr. She was sober whereas filming the present, episodes of which confirmed solid members encouraging her to drink.
“I used to be actually hoping for the very best,” she mentioned of her choice to hitch the “Ultimate Girls Trip” solid. “I had had a number of discussions with a number of community executives who knew how I felt, they usually mentioned that this was going to be enjoyable.”
Ms. McSweeney’s lawsuit got here weeks after Caroline Manzo, a former star of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” filed a go well with towards Bravo and different events in January alleging that she had been sexually harassed and assaulted by a fellow solid member whereas filming an installment of “Ultimate Girls Trip.” Bravo has not commented on that lawsuit.
Last summer season, Bethenny Frankel, one other former “Housewives of New York” solid member, referred to as for actuality stars to unionize with a purpose to enhance their working circumstances. In August, two leisure attorneys, Bryan Freeman and Mark Geragos, wrote a authorized letter addressed to Kimberley Harris, the final counsel at NBCUniversal, accusing Bravo of “grotesque and wicked mistreatment” on behalf of “a number of present and former solid members and crew members on a few of NBC’s most profitable actuality exhibits.”
