Former RHOC Stars Defend Andy Cohen Against ‘Dirty’ Lawsuit

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Former RHOC stars Vicki Gunvalson and Meghan King are weighting in on Andy Cohen’s authorized drama with Real Housewives of New York alum Leah McSweeney.

As Actual Housewives followers know, Leah is suing Bravo and Andy Cohen for deliberately preying on her alcohol dependancy so they might hit the scores jackpot. In her court docket submitting the previous RHONY star additionally claims that the Watch What Happens Live host “snorts cocaine” with his favorite Real Housewives.

With regards to Leah’s lawsuit, RHOC OG Vicki Gunvalson says she’s taking Andy’s aspect.

“I don’t know a lot apart from she is suing Andy, which is loopy to me,” the OG of the OC informed Us Weekly on Sunday, March 10. “Why she is ready now for everyone else and bringing our bosses down, I don’t know as a result of I wasn’t there.”

The RHOC OG famous that she loves and respects Andy, including, “He has at all times been skilled with me, now we have a really large relationship.”

She went on to name Leah’s lawsuit “soiled” and admitted she thinks the RHONY alum is “making an attempt to get deep pockets from it.”

Meghan King, then again, has combined emotions about Leah’s lawsuit in opposition to Andy and Bravo.

“I simply know that after I signed my contract to be on the Actual Housewives, and I feel it’s a fairly customary contract amongst all of the franchises, it mentioned very explicitly, ‘We are able to take no matter footage you give us and we are able to manipulate it, and we are able to splice it and do regardless of the hell we need to do with it,’” the 39-year-old for RHOC star informed Us Weekly. “And you must signal your life away otherwise you don’t signal it in any respect. And does that make it a good contract? That’s a distinct dialog.”

The RHOC alum shared that when she and her co-stars signed their contracts they “understood” what they signing up for by getting into the world of actuality TV. Whereas she believes actuality TV ought to keep enjoyable, she admits there must be a dialog that concentrate on the larger image of what occurs behind the scenes on unscripted programming.

“It shouldn’t be about Andy Cohen. It shouldn’t be about Bravo. It shouldn’t be in regards to the Actual Housewives,” she defined. “It ought to simply be in regards to the ethics of actuality TV and what does that do for our psyche long run or royalties or no matter.”

In response to Meghan the strain to drink on actuality TV doesn’t come from producers and as a substitute is nothing greater than the “typical societal and peer strain.”

“If I’m going to go to a contented hour with girlfriends to rejoice a birthday, I’m going to really feel like I ought to have a drink. Is anyone telling me to, does anyone care if I do? Completely not,” she continued. “However that’s what I’m doing. That’s how I’m displaying up. So I feel that’s a private willpower kind of factor.”

Nonetheless, she notes that for these combating dependancy their determination to abstain from consuming needs to be “revered and honored” and may get assist in the event that they ask for it. But she doesn’t imagine that the duty to get assist sits solely on the manufacturing staff’s shoulders.

She provides that Andy has at all times been “very supportive” in direction of her and has witness him make certain Housewives who don’t drink are snug when showing on Watch Watch Occurs Stay and taking part in its notorious “Shot Ski” consuming sport.

Meghan appeared on WWHL with RHOC star Gina Kirschenheiter, who doesn’t drink, so Andy made certain that after they did the “Shot Ski” Gina was supplied a non-alcoholic shot.

“After which throughout [the] business, he will get on the manufacturing assistants [saying,] ‘You can not do that. This might compromise her sobriety. That is actually vital. It’s not humorous that this occurred,’” the 39-year-old recalled. “So what I noticed is Andy defending standing up for a sober individual on one among his exhibits. It’s [the] exact opposite of what I learn.”