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Ramona Singer is being accused of utilizing a racial slur and making different derogatory feedback in a just-released exposé.
Days after the bombshell article was teased, the Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum, 66, got here underneath hearth as one other Actual Housewives star got here ahead, claiming she was pressured to movie after peeing on herself, and Leah McSweeney, 41, confirmed she filed a discrimination grievance towards Bravo with the Equal Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC) after filming the third season of Actual Housewives: Final Ladies Journey.
Within the October 30 exposé from Self-importance Honest, titled, “Contained in the ‘Actual Housewives’ Reckoning That’s Rocking Bravo,” it was famous that Leah’s grievance was filed on March 10 and accused the community of violating the Individuals with Disabilities Act.
As RHONY followers will recall, Leah’s alcohol and habit points had been captured amid season 12, and the next 12 months, she was seen reeling after lacking her grandmother’s loss of life throughout a solid journey to the Hamptons.
Though a manufacturing supply insisted Leah was supplied assist on the time for “no matter day or time [she] want[ed] to be with [her] grandmother,” Leah felt in any other case.
“It harm so unhealthy that I used to be not capable of grieve,” Leah defined. “That I had individuals not displaying me any form of compassion or humanity relating to it.”
Following the loss of life, Leah spent eight days at a psychiatric hospital. After that, she was allegedly advised by Shed’s senior vice chairman of programming and improvement, Lisa Shannon, that viewers “form of didn’t like” her as a result of “there was such a stark distinction between [her] when [she was] consuming versus this season.”
Regardless of her points with Bravo, which led to Leah quitting the present over the telephone, Leah agreed to a $250,000 payday to seem on RHUGT, the place her co-stars inspired her to drink.
“I want you had been nonetheless consuming. That’s all,” Marysol Patton, 56, admitted to texting her previous to the journey.
As well as, Heather Homosexual, 49, additionally expressed that she wished to “get Leah drunk,” and Gizelle Bryant, 53, requested, “Like, when you drank this week, would that be an enormous deal?”
In response to Leah’s discrimination claims, Christie Del Rey-Cone, an lawyer for Bravo, Shed Media, and its dad or mum firm, Warner Bros. Discovery, advised Self-importance Honest, “Manufacturing spent countless quantities of time accommodating her.”
“[Leah] spent a lot of RHONY season 12 discussing (and generally even mocking) the alleged [disabilities] that are actually the topic of” her grievance, Christie continued, additionally stating that Leah was supplied assist on quite a lot of events.
One other Housewives star got here ahead and claimed she was pressured to proceed filming after she drank an excessive amount of amid the solid’s journey to Mexico, the place they had been “totally stocked,” and awakened in her personal pee.
Whereas the unnamed solid member stated she was too sick, RHONY producers allegedly disregarded her sickness.
“Folks on set stored telling her she was superb, it was simply the Mexican water screwing up her abdomen,” the article shared. “The identical factor had occurred to them in Cartagena, Colombia, the 12 months earlier than.”
After being pressured to renew filming, the girl allegedly threw up amid a van experience with the solid and finally acquired a shot from a physician.
In response, a Bravo spokesperson advised The Messenger, “Bravo requires its third-party producers to observe its insurance policies and pointers to keep up a secure and respectful office for all solid and crew on our reveals. When a grievance is dropped at our consideration, we work with our third-party manufacturing corporations to make sure all crucial steps are taken to deal with the priority, together with a immediate and thorough investigation and remedial motion the place warranted.”
“We’re at all times enhancing upon our insurance policies and procedures and lately despatched updates to our manufacturing corporations, together with stricter pointers on alcohol consumption and course on when to intervene to keep up the security of solid and crew, elevated psychological assist, enhanced office trainings, extra critical penalties for bodily violence on set, and a requirement to offer solid and crew with a direct line to NBCUniversal to boost issues,” they continued. “Moreover, we’ve got put in place protocols to extend our oversight to make sure that our requirements are being met.”
As for Ramona’s alleged racist habits, the journal stated she used the n-word throughout a dialog with a Black crew member amid filming on RHONY season 13. Nevertheless, after a grievance was filed inside Shed Media, Warner Bros. Discovery, Bravo, and NBCUniversal, Ramona denied making the remark, and an investigation into the incident was “inconclusive.”
Previous to the beginning of filming on season 13, which ended with a whole reboot of the solid, Ramona and her co-stars, together with the collection’ first-ever Black star, Eboni Okay. Williams, 40, participated in a “digital schooling session” with an NBCUniversal communications government, a Bravo publicist, and two representatives from a racial justice group. And through the session, Eboni claimed Ramona didn’t perceive why she shouldn’t say that Black fathers are sometimes absent from their kids’s lives.
“’What in the event that they don’t have a father? Why can’t I say that?’” Ramona requested, per Eboni. “’Most of them don’t.’”
Even after a publicist for Bravo identified that her Black father was current in her life, Ramona argued that she had learn a examine that proved her assertion.
Ramona was additionally accused of claiming the present “shouldn’t have black individuals” and that it could “destroy our present.” However in response, Ramona defined, “The coaching included ‘open dialogue.’ In that spirit, I requested a query a few statistic I had examine single-parent households, the place kids with single-parent households had been statistically much less prone to succeed than two-parent households.”
“In truth, I supported including numerous solid members nicely earlier than earlier than [sic] Eboni was added,” Ramona added in an e mail.
After Ramona’s feedback put her on producers’ “sizzling sheet,” a post-filming doc, producer Andy Cohen, 55, responded.
“These are unimaginable reads and shall be superb episodes. The truth that this explicit journey via white fragility ends with Ramona DM’ing Bryan Cranston is subsequent stage,” he stated in his personal e mail.
One other racially insensitive remark from Ramona reportedly got here as she spoke to a Black feminine manufacturing staffer, telling her, “’There’s so lots of you guys right here now, please don’t change your hair as I’m not gonna be capable of bear in mind anyone’s names.’”
However in line with Ramona, the assertion was indicative of her “lack of ability to recollect names.”
“For example, simply final week I noticed a photograph with me and Travis Kelce from 2016 on Watch What Occurs Stay and I assumed he was Jax Taylor,” she stated.
The exposé additionally famous that two sources stated Ramona exclaimed, “There’s so many black chicks!” And whereas she denied it, footage confirmed her utilizing the phrase “black chicks.”
