EXCLUSIVE: Less than a week before NBCUniversal’s big pitch to advertisers in the Big Apple, Andy Cohen the jewel in the media giant’s Reality TV crown isn’t shinning so bright after all.
Despite Bravo’s insistence that an investigation by an outside party has cleared the Real Housewives franchise boss of “unsubstantiated” allegations of cocaine use, alcohol abuse, and sexual harassment, attorneys for Leah McSweeney and Brandi Glanville say it’s all a sham. “This is perfect timing,” McSweeney’s lawyer Gary Adelman told Deadline Thursday after Bravo put out a statement calling their Cohen probe “completed” and done. “One line so they can repeat it to all the advertisers at the Up Fronts.” “How do you have an investigation without speaking with to anyone?” McSweeney’s main lawyer added, declaring that their client was never interviewed by the outside investigation law firm. “Our opinion is that no one is going to believe this was a real investigation.” “I am looking forward to reviewing the details of report from the ‘independent’ investigation,” Glanville’s attorney Bryan Freedman declared. “Since there was no finding of wrongdoing, there, of course, would be no need to hide or otherwise bury the findings.” “NBC did not speak with the complaining witnesses,” Freedman said also of his client. “How is that an investigation?” Writing to NBCU and Warner Bros Discovery brass on February 22, Glanville claimed she was sexual harassed by a video from Watch What Happens Live!
host Cohen in 2022 telling Glanville that he, an openly gay man, wanted her to watch him have sex with “another Bravo star that night” and more.
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