Andy Cohen has been cleared by Bravo after former Actual Housewives Leah McSweeney and Brandi Glanville made sexual harassment and drug claims towards him.
A spokesperson for the community instructed Deadline on Thursday, Could 9, that the allegations introduced upon Cohen, 55, by Glanville, 51, and McSweeney, 41, had been “unsubstantiated.”
“The skin investigation into the latest allegations made by Brandi Glanville and Leah McSweeney towards Andy Cohen has now been accomplished, and the claims had been discovered to be unsubstantiated,” the Bravo spokeswoman instructed the outlet.
The speak present host and govt producer for The Actual Housewives franchise, which propelled Glanville, 51, and McSweeney, 41, to fame, was accused of a number of offenses together with sexual harassment and drug and alcohol-related misconduct.
The primary allegation was made by Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Glanville who despatched a letter by way of her attorneys to NBCUniversal, Shed Media and Shed’s mother or father firm Warner Bros. Discovery in February. The letter detailed Glanville’s claims of an alleged video despatched to her by Cohen that depicted him as intoxicated and claimed he mentioned he needed to “sleep with one other Bravo star” whereas “considering” of her.
Though Cohen acknowledged the video and apologized for the “joke” in a press release shared by way of X later that day, an investigation into the incident commenced.
Cohen obtained a second blow later that month when Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum McSweeney filed a lawsuit that claimed Cohen “rewards Housewives with whom he makes use of cocaine with extra favorable therapy and edits”.
The go well with additionally learn that “Cohen deliberately makes use of cocaine together with his staff to additional promote a office tradition that thrives off drug and alcohol abuse, which ends up in a failure to accommodate staff who’re disabled and making an attempt to stay substance free.”
A rep for Cohen denied the allegations on the time, telling The Hollywood Reporter that they had been “utterly false.”
In mild of McSweeney’s submitting, a number of Housewives got here to Cohen’s protection, together with RHOBH alum Lisa Vanderpump.
“No one will get a very good edit on that present, that’s for a truth,” Vanderpump, 63, instructed TMZ on on March 2. “And Andy doing coke? I do know as a result of I’ve partied with him lots of of instances — in my enterprise, in my home, in New York — I’ve by no means seen something like that. I can categorically say, ‘No, he wouldn’t do this.’ I do know for a truth he wouldn’t do this.”
The clearing of Cohen’s title arrives on the identical day Bravo has revealed Watch What Occurs Dwell! can be renewed for an additional season together with fellow Bravo sequence’ The Valley, a Vanderpump Guidelines spinoff, Married to Medication, High Chef, Southern Attraction, Southern Hospitality and Beneath Deck.