The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, names Cohen, Bravo Media, NBC Universal Media, Warner Bros. Discovery, production company Shed Media US and producers John Paparazzo, Lisa Shannon and Darren Ward.
Within complaint obtained, McSweeney claims the defendants established a “rotted” workplace culture where employees were pressured to consume alcohol. She also alleges that the defendants failed to maintain a safe working environment and accommodate her disabilities, including “alcohol use disorder” and “mental health disorders.”
McSweeney added that she disclosed that she had broken nine years of sobriety, but was sober by the time filming for season 12 of the show began in 2019.
McSweeney further alleges that producers knew she suffered from alcohol use disorder after she confided in them, but discriminated against that and other mental disorders by “intentionally planning scenarios intended to exacerbate [her] disabilities,” all in efforts to “create morbidly salacious reality television.”
In a later section of the complaint, McSweeney goes on to claim that Cohen “engages in cocaine use with Housewives and other ‘Bravolebrities’ that he employs,” and has a “proclivity for cocaine usage with his employees.”
