A Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip producer has addressed New Jersey Housewife Caroline Manzo‘s lawsuit against Bravo and Peacock and shot down Caroline’s claims that she was sexually assaulted by Brandi Glanville while filming the fourth season of the series in Morocco.
Caroline claims she was assaulted and harassed and that producers failed to protect her even though they had “overwhelming prior notice of Ms. Glanville’s prior deviant sexual proclivities and sexually harassing conduct.”
But the producer says that Caroline told her something different at the time of the incident.
“After the incident between Manzo and Glanville on January 24, 2023, Manzo disclosed her childhood trauma to a member of the production staff, who relayed this information to me. This information was not known to production,” executive producer Lisa Shannon claims in the court docs.
“Manzo revealed to us, for the first time, that she had suffered sexual trauma as a child and that Glanville’s actions that evening had triggered memories of that childhood trauma. She told us that she did not feel sexually violated, she felt ‘disrespected’ by Glanville.”
Shannon also claims that Caroline addressed the situation with the other cast members the next day — including Phaedra Parks and Gretchen Rossi, and that they did not realize that Caroline had been uncomfortable at all at the time of the incident.
