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Bleary-eyed Andy Cohen slurs his words as he demands Brandi Glanville watch him have sex in video she calls ‘disgusting’
"I was so mortified and embarrassed," Brandi tells The U.S. Sun in an exclusive interview
ANDY Cohen has been caught on camera demanding that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville watch him have sex with another Bravo star.
In a video message that Andy sent to Brandi, the Bravo boss holds a drink and slurs his words alongside Below Deck star Kate Chastain.
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In the clip exclusively obtained by The U.S. Sun, Andy says: "Brandi, we have something to tell you."
Kate chimes in: "Hey b****!"
The Bravo exec continues: "We are f***ing tonight, and we're gonna talk about you the whole time."
Slurring her words, Kate adds: "So essentially a threesome."
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Andy laughs: "Actually, if you're around in like 90 minutes or two hours, do you wanna watch us on Facetime?"
Andy turns his head to ask Kate: "Would you be cool with that?"
She responds: "Yeah, Facetime. Yeah, strong WiFi."
Andy then repeats Kate's words while pumping his eyebrows up and down before signing off, "Love you, Brandi!" and raising his glass to the camera.
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Brandi's response was equally vulgar. However, she explained that she felt she always needed to "match Andy's energy" in order to keep her job.
The Bravo star wrote back, "Oh my god my two favorite people!!!! I love that c*** Trust me you're going to want me there if you're having sex I have a magic p****."
To which Andy responded, "So I've heard."
'I WAS MORTIFIED'
In an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun, ex-Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi said that Andy sent her the video in June 2022.
"I received a text message from Andy, and it was a video he made.
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"And in the video, he said that he was going to have sex with Kate, and they were going to be talking about me and thinking about me the whole time. And if I was around, do I want to watch it?"
"I was mortified. This is my boss, he's my employer.
"This isn't the first explicit text message or email he sent me, but it's the worst one."
Brandi, 51, explained she was in a work setting when she received Andy's message.
"Andy was at a work event in the South of France with Kate, it was a Bravo upfront kind of thing, and I was doing press for the Ultimate Girls Trip in LA.
"I was in a work environment. I had a hairstylist doing my hair, and when I opened the text, I tried to shut it.
"I was so mortified and embarrassed, like, does this guy think I'd f*** my boss to get a job?
I was mortified, this is my boss, he's my employer.
Real Housewives star Brandi Glanville
"Because that's what it sounded like. Like, he's gonna think about me having sex, while he's having sex with someone else.
"Does this guy think that I sleep around to get jobs?
"That's how I felt, and it's just taken a toll. The whole thing has been horrible," the 51-year-old mom said, adding Andy "did not look sober."
Brandi said the experience made her feel awful.
"I feel like lesser than. I feel like I'm expendable.
"I feel like, because of my more desperate money situation, he thinks that he can do and say whatever he wants to me, and I'm not gonna rock the boat or tell on him because I need him more than he needs me."
Kate shared a TikTok from Monaco in June 2022, in which she and Andy, along with other Bravo stars, were seen partying on a yacht.
Kate and Andy wore the same outfits in the video he sent Brandi.
The Below Deck star captioned the TikTok: "Rosé literally all day."
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About Kate Chastain from Below Deck
Kate Chastain has been part of the Bravo world for over a decade
She joined Bravo's Below Deck in 2014, and was on the show for six seasons before stepping away from yacht life.
After she left the show, she remained in the Bravo universe and appeared on Bravo's Chat Room and The Traitors on Peacock.
She also had a podcast, After Deck with Kate Chastain, and a Sirius show, Unapologetically Kate Chastain.
The 41-year-old is a mother to Sullivan Cay, who was born in 2023.
BRANDI LAWYERS UP
Brandi previously accused Andy of sexual harassment in a legal letter she fired to the Bravo boss about the video.
In the letter, Brandi's lawyers wrote: "Ms. Glanville herself has been a victim of sexual harassment at Bravo by none other than Andy Cohen.
"In a video sent by Mr. Cohen to Ms. Glanville in 2022, Mr. Cohen —appearing obviously inebriated — boasted of his intention to sleep with another Bravo star that night while thinking of her and invited her to watch via Facetime.
"Mr. Cohen was Ms. Glanville’s boss at the time, and exercised complete and total control over her career.
"This was an extraordinary abuse of power that left Ms. Glanville feeling trapped and disgusted.
"It is inconceivable that Mr. Cohen remains in his post in spite of this behavior and harkens back to the bad old days of Matt Lauer and NBC News when profits were prioritized over people."
The 56-year-old host took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to apologize for his behavior.
"The video shows Kate Chastain and I very clearly joking to Brandi," he said in February 2024.
"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."
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Brandi believes that the Watch What Happens Live host "preys" on talent in more financially vulnerable situations than their wealthier reality co-stars.
"He likes to prey on people. I say prey, because the more desperate you are for money in a check, the more he mistreats you and gets you to do and say things that he would never probably say to any other Housewives."
She explained further: "This is my boss, like, this has been my job for 13 years, so I treat it like that - a job.
"He's in charge of whether I can put food on the table or not, and people think I'm rich.
The more desperate you are for money in a check, the more he mistreats you.
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"I am not rich. Other Housewives are rich. I literally live check to check."
Andy Cohen's Career
Andy Cohen has blazed quite the career for himself despite being often mired in controversy.
Andy received a degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University.
He held local internships in TV and radio before landing his first job out of college job as a news clerk at CBS News working for the show, CBS This Morning.
He worked with CBS for a decade and became a producer for both the morning show and 48 Hours.
In 2000, he got a job in program development at Trio, a cable network owned by NBC Universal.
In 2004, he landed a job at Bravo, also an NBC Universal property, as vice president of original programming.
Andy helped develop the Real Housewives franchise, starting with The Real Housewives of Orange County in 2006.
In July of 2009, his boozy late-night talk show, Watch What Happens Live premiered.
Andy has also been a regular guest on Today and Morning Joe, and has co-hosted Live! with Kelly, and The View.
He has his own channel on Sirius XM radio (Radio Andy), and his own book imprint, Andy Cohen Books, with Henry Holt & Co.
He has written several books including The Andy Cohen Diaries, Superficial, and The Daddy Diaries,
Andy and Anderson Cooper have also teamed up for CNN's annual New Year's Eve coverage since the 2017-18 special.
'ANDY'S MY BOSS'
"Andy's my boss. That's it. He makes everyone feel like, 'Oh, I'm friends with all the Housewives.'
"I've never hung out with him, ever, not once socially, I would go to Watch What Happens Live, and I would go home.
"We never had a drink, we never had anything. But he creates these illusions of friendship."
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"He'll text you to make you feel like you're special, or that he's available to you, but we did not have a friendship, not one second.
"Andy and I are not friends, we've never hung out, we've never gotten a drink, we don't have mutual friends. I am an employee.
"And I don't know how he treats other Housewives, but I think he treats me like s*** compared to them, actually," Brandi added.
'BRAVO SIDE CHICK'
Brandi said Andy and Bravo's alleged mistreatment of her has made her feel like a "Bravo side chick."
"And it's just, it's like, it's gross. The whole thing is gross. I feel like I'm like, a Bravo side chick, and they can take advantage of me and then be like 'You're canceled now, and we can do whatever we want to because you're nobody.'
BRANDI'S BRAVO HISTORY
Brandi's had a tough go with Bravo.
The model-turned-reality star was brought on RHOBH as a "friend" for season 2 in 2011 after her divorce from actor Eddie Cibrian.
Brandi previously penned an exclusive article for The U.S. Sun about her painful split from the actor.
She was brought on as a full-time cast member from season 3 through 5, but was let go in 2015 after she made comments about Real Housewives of Miami star Joanna Krupa on Watch What Happens Live.
She was subsequently sued for defamation.
The reality stars settled the suit in 2017, and Brandi was ordered to pay up and publicly apologize to Joanna. Brandi said the suit cost her $500,000 in total.
Brandi returned to the show as a guest in the 6th, 9th and 10th seasons.
In 2022, Brandi, along with several other Housewives, appeared on The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.
In 2023, it was announced that Brandi would be returning for the 5th season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, which was set to premiere in 2024.
Brandi was removed from filming after an allegation of sexual abuse was made by Caroline Manzo, which Brandi denied.
That season of Ultimate Girls Trip has yet to hit the air.
Caroline sued Bravo, as well as Warner Brothers, and NBC Universal, who own the Bravo brand, over the alleged abuse, but did not pursue legal action against Brandi.
In a filing from the suit, obtained by The U.S. Sun, Bravo producer, Lisa Shannon claimed that Caroline told them she did not feel "sexually violated," during the incident.
"At that point, 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." the producer said in the filing.
"When you're in it, you almost don't realize it, but when you look back at it, I'm disgusted with myself. I'm disgusted with my boss, I'm disgusted with all of it. It's just it's disgusting. I should have never allowed him to talk to me that way," Brandi added.
"I mean, I don't, I don't know if you can see me, but my health is messed up.
"I am in therapy, to this point like I have been looking back at all of our other texts and being disgusted with myself for entertaining them and not telling him to f*** off, but I just wasn't in a position where I could," she said, referencing her financial reliance on the reality show gig.
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"You have to play well, he's your boss. You have to act like it's fine, it's a joke, it's great! Like he's gracing you with this video, like it's a gift."
Bravo declined to comment for this story.
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