Brandi Glanville slams Andy Cohen’s ‘fake’ sexual harassment apology
Brandi Glanville and Andy Cohen
Getty Images (2)Brandi GlanvilleThe lawyers are not happy about that Andy Cohen‘fake apology’ after their client accused Cohen of sexual harassment earlier this month.
“Any boss who is clearly drunk and encourages his employee via a Facetime video to watch his boss have sex with another employee constitutes sexual harassment, plain and simple, under any definition, even made up by NBC,” says Glanville’s legal team, which consists of Bryan Freedman And Mark Geragostold We weekly in a statement on Friday, February 23, referring to Cohen’s alleged misconduct.
The statement continued: “Why does Andy Cohen get a pass? Any other supervisor at Comcast/NBC who engaged in this behavior would be fired immediately on the spot. It’s no excuse to say this was a joke.”
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Glanville, 51, recently accused Cohen, 55, of being “drunk” and sending her an inappropriate video in 2022, according to a lengthy letter her lawyers sent to NBCUniversal, Shed Media and Shed’s parent company Warner Bros, according to Variety.
Glanville claimed that Cohen told her in the message that he “intended to sleep with another Bravo star that night while thinking about her” and claimed that he “invited her to watch via FaceTime.”
The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star stated that she felt “trapped” and “disgusted” by Cohen’s alleged phone call, especially since he was her “boss” at the time.
Cohen responded to the allegations via social media on Thursday, February 22, denying that it was anything more than a joke.
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Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Rock of Ages Hollywood“The video shows it Kate Chastain and I was clearly joking to Brandi. “It was definitely meant as a joke, and it was clear from Brandi’s reaction that she was in on the joke,” Cohen said wrote via X. “That said, it was completely inappropriate and I apologize.”
However, Glanville’s legal team made it clear on Friday that Cohen’s apology wasn’t good enough and called for his job at NBCUniversal’s Bravo network.
“NBC wrongly gave Andy too much power within their network,” Glanville’s attorneys said Us in the statement. “He’s a man who hosts reunions in various cities across the franchise, produces and stars in his own show to promote these vehicles, hosts a massive conference that monetizes the ‘bravosphere’ on the backs of women, and is the capo that runs this reality machine. NBC has clearly decided he is too big to fail.”
The legal group argued that “NBC has learned nothing from the cover-up at NBC NEWS,” comparing Cohen’s actions to those of the disgraced journalist. Matt Lauer. (Lauer, 66, was fired from NBC Today show in November 2017 after being accused of sexual misconduct and assault. Lauer denied the claims, but NBC faced backlash over the allegations as it was later learned that the network hid the reports for two years.)
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“Like Matt Lauer, Andy Cohen is now part of the cover-up,” the Glanville team alleged on Friday. “NBC continues to protect those in power. Brian Roberts, it’s time to intervene, as you did with Andy Lack And Jeff Shell and stop the cover-up and do the right thing. Your legacy and decency demand it.”
Glanville’s allegations about Cohen came nearly a month after Glanville was indicted Caroline Manzo for allegedly kissing manzo, 62, without her consent during the filming of The ultimate girls trip from Real Housewives in Morocco in January 2023. (The season has yet to air following the allegations.)
Manzo claimed in court documents obtained by Us last month that Bravo regularly pushes its TV stars to drink alcohol so that they would “get seriously intoxicated, and then incite, encourage, and/or allow them to sexually harass other cast members because it’s for good ratings.” ”
Manzo claimed that Glanville did not attend the mandatory sexual harassment class for the cast and claimed there were no consequences for it.
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Glanville then kissed Manzo with his mouth closed. Glanville then kissed Manzo again. Manzo felt very uncomfortable,” the doctors claimed. “Glanville then proceeded to mount Manzo on the couch while holding Manzo down with her body, forcibly squeezing Manzo’s cheeks together and sticking her tongue into Manzo’s mouth while fucking her.”
Glanville denied her involvement in the alleged incident through a statement released by her lawyers.
“Unfortunately, Brandi had to file another lawsuit alleging defamatory, false allegations about her,” the statement said. Us January read. “During filming, Brandi followed what the producers asked of her, and there was no sexual abuse. She is innocent of these absurd accusations that have weighed on her mental and physical health for far too long without a word of support from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.
We weekly has contacted Cohen and Bravo for comment.