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Brandi Glanville is opening up about what she claims was an “abusive” and “manipulative” decade-long relationship with former boss Andy Cohen.
After accusing Andy, 56, of sexual harassment in February 2024, the 52-year-old Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum admitted to being in a dire monetary scenario as she spoke of the sexual assault claims Caroline Manzo, 63, made in opposition to her, detailed Andy’s response to the allegations, and shared extra particulars about their previous communication with each other.
“I used to be concerned in a really abusive, manipulative relationship with Andy Cohen,” Brandi informed The Publish on February 19.
As followers have certainly heard, Brandi was despatched a video message from Andy and Kate Chastain, 42, in June 2022 during which Andy allegedly knowledgeable her that he and Kate had been “f**king tonight” and “going to speak about [her] the entire time.”
“For those who’re round in like 90 minutes, two hours, do you need to watch us on FaceTime?” he supposedly requested.
On the time, Brandi confirmed the clip to Tamra Decide, 57, who was together with her at a New York Metropolis studio.
“Wow. He actually likes you. He doesn’t ship movies like that to me!” Tamra reportedly replied.
“I do bear in mind her mentioning it,” Tamra confirmed to The Publish. “We each thought it was humorous … I’ve had an in depth friendship with him for 17 years, and he’s been nothing however type to me.”
Whereas Brandi felt particular within the second, she enlisted attorneys Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos, who had been working alongside Bethenny Frankel, 54, on her “Actuality Reckoning,” months later, they usually, in flip, labeled the video “a rare abuse of energy.”
Additionally they demanded Andy be fired and warned of an impending lawsuit.
In the meantime, in an announcement shared on X, Andy defended the clip.
“The video …was completely meant in jest, and Brandi’s response clearly communicated she was in on the joke. That stated, it was completely inappropriate and I apologize.”
In accordance with the report, Brandi responded to the video by saying she’d “get [her] vibrator” and claiming she had a “magic p***y.” Nevertheless, now that she’s had time to consider the contents of the video and the character of her relationship with Andy, she feels completely different.
“What individuals want to grasp is that it wasn’t a good friend sending me the video,” she defined. “If a good friend despatched me that video, who wasn’t my boss, and didn’t have energy over me, I in all probability would have reacted like, ‘No huge deal.’”
Wanting again on the a few years she was involved with Andy, Brandi stated she “wished to maintain that relationship alive” in hopes of returning to RHOBH, the place she was making practically $500,000 per season earlier than being launched from her contract.
“I used to be going to purchase a home,” she stated. “I used to be simply excited to do one thing like that with out [ex-husband Eddie Cibrian]. After which I acquired fired.”
Whereas Brandi did return in visitor spots, making simply $5,000, the restricted position made her really feel “discounted.”
Though Brandi was by no means introduced again to RHOBH, she was employed to look on Actual Housewives Final Ladies Journey, the place she was paid a reported $200,000.
“It felt like [Cohen] was throwing me a bone as a result of he’d promised to convey me again to the ‘Housewives’,” she stated. “Getting that cash gave me slightly aid for the subsequent couple of years [and] I felt sort of vital to him once more.”
After first filming season two of RHUGT, Brandi obtained good suggestions from community executives.
“An enormous congrats… on a improbable season… which actually ups the ante in each method!” they informed her.
Feeling that she “should have impressed somebody,” Brandi went into season 4 hoping to recreate the identical magic in Morocco.
“I wished to do [on the second] what we did on the primary one: get drunk and excessive and make out,” she revealed. “I wished to go away them with, ‘She did so good.’”
However this time round, HR was concerned and sending conflicting messages.
“They’re sitting there telling us we will’t discuss anybody’s age, we will’t name anybody fats. I’m like, ‘I’m sorry — how are we going to make ‘Housewives?’” she puzzled. “Producers are saying ‘Convey the social gathering,’ to me, particularly — as a result of they knew that I’d do one thing,”
In accordance with Brandi, producers informed her of Caroline, “‘Be certain she participates. We wish her to have enjoyable.’”
“I acquired her doing photographs – she doesn’t drink,” Brandi recalled as she alleged that the solid was drunk and excessive on the night time she was accused of sexually assaulting her co-star.
“[The producers were] like ‘convey the social gathering,’’” Brandi shared. “That’s the explanation I gave [Caroline] a lap dance.”
As soon as Brandi returned to Los Angeles from Morocco, rumors concerning what went down between her and Caroline started to swirl — and she or he obtained a textual content from Andy.
“Cling in there and don’t lose your thoughts,” he informed her in a collection of messages. “Say nothing now … There’s no acquire in it. This factor is airing so lengthy from now … Simply keep off social media and clear your head for proper now. Take a breath and let the plates accept a bit.”
Then, as soon as the story broke and Brandi was accused of behaving inappropriately, she texted Andy, “Nicely, I’m canceled.”
“You’re not canceled,” he assured her.
“Andy would name me and say, ‘Belief me, [Manzo’s] not going to serve Bravo a lawsuit,” Brandi famous. “He was like, ‘Belief me. I simply noticed her. We had been speaking. She’s not going to do something.’ That’s his mindset – he thinks he’s so highly effective that he has the management that Caroline’s not going to file a lawsuit.”
Amid the authorized drama, Brandi, who was not named as a defendant in Caroline’s case, started seeing a therapist and discussing the connection she had with Andy.
“[I started] speaking to a therapist and telling them concerning the relationship – the non-relationship – that I had with this man, over a decade, was actually, actually abusive,” she defined.
Now, after being dropped by her attorneys on the finish of final yr, Brandi fears she’ll quickly go broke.
“I joke with my children that we have now 4 months left till we’re homeless, however that’s type of true, and it scares me, and it stresses me the f**okay out,” she admitted. “I’m not ever going to be homeless, as a result of I’ve buddies. However I haven’t had earnings for 2 years. I simply paid my taxes with my bank card. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
