Brandi Glanville shares video of Andy Cohen making 'disgusting' request: 'I was so mortified' (original) (raw)

Brandi Glanville has shared a video of her former Bravo boss, Andy Cohen, making what she said was a "disgusting" request of her.

In a video sent to Glanville in June 2022 and published by The Sun, the Watch What Happens Live host addresses Glanville, saying, "Brandi, we have something to tell you." He's joined by Below Deck's Kate Chastain, who adds, "Hey b----." The pair continue, each holding drinks. "We are f---ing tonight, and we're gonna talk about you the whole time," Cohen says, adding, "Actually, if you're around in like 90 minutes or two hours, do you wanna watch us on FaceTime?"

"This isn't the first explicit text message or email he sent me," the former The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star told The Sun, "but it's the worst one."

Reps for Glanville and Cohen did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

Brandi Glanville and Andy Cohen.

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At the conclusion of the short video, Cohen turns to Chastain and asks, "Would you be cool with that?" She responds, "Yeah, Facetime. Yeah, strong WiFi." Cohen repeats her words before raising his glass and cheers and saying, "Love you, Brandi!"

"I was mortified. That is my boss, he's my employer," Glanville told The Sun. "I was in a work environment, I was doing press for the Bravo Girls' Trip show," she explained. Glanville is referencing Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a spinoff series that unites cast members from different cities to vacation in tropical locations. Glanville's season never made it to air, due to her castmate Caroline Manzo accusing her of sexual misconduct and filing a lawsuit against Bravo.

Glanville responded with her own threat to sue the network, writing she'd been "held hostage in a hotel in Morocco for days" while filming and had been "canceled from all jobs" because of "the bad untrue press" following Manzo's allegations.

Even before that threat of legal suit, Glanville had called for Cohen to step down from his role at Bravo, citing the 2022 video that's only now been made public.

"Any boss who is clearly inebriated encouraging their employee by facetime video to watch their boss have sex with another employee, constitutes sexual harassment, plain and simple, under any definition even one concocted by NBC," stated Glanville's lawyers Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos. "Why is Andy Cohen getting a pass? Any other supervisor at Comcast/NBC who engaged in this behavior would be fired immediately on the spot."

The RHOBH star continued to The Sun that she "just felt dirty" after receiving the video. "Like, does this guy think I sleep around to get jobs? It's just taken a toll. The whole thing has been horrible."

Andy Cohen on 'Watch What Happens Live'.

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"Andy likes to prey on, I say prey because the more desperate you are for money and a check the more he mistreats you and gets you to do and say things that he'd never probably say to any other housewife," she said. "This has been my job for 13 years, so I treat it like that - a job. But he's in charge of whether I can put food on the table or not. People think I'm rich. I'm not rich. The other housewives are rich. I literally live check to check."

Glanville also accused Cohen of a "proclivity" for cocaine usage with "Housewives and other Bravolebrities that he employs" that often rises to the level of quid-pro-quo arrangements. Those "with whom he uses cocaine" recieve "more favorable treatment and edits," according to the suit.

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Cohen ultimately did partially cop to wrongdoing with regard to the video he sent Glanville. In a February X post following Glanville's call for his resignation, Cohen wrote, "The video shows Kate Chastain and I very clearly joking to Brandi. It was absolutely meant in jest, and Brandi’s response clearly communicated she was in on the joke. That said, it was totally inappropriate and I apologize."

"Andy and I are not friends," Glanville told The Sun. "We've never hung out, we've never gotten a drink, we don't have mutual friends. I am an employee."