RHONY alum Leah McSweeney is at the moment embroiled in a authorized battle with Andy Cohen, Bravo, NBCUniversal Media and extra alleging that producers had been “pressuring” her to eat alcohol, regardless of being conscious of her struggles with dependancy.
Leah McSweeney is doing simply high quality with out that Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis cash, thanks very a lot. In truth, the fact alum, who additionally starred on Actual Housewives: Final Ladies Journey says she’s making far more cash now on OnlyFans.
Whereas dropping by Sofia Franklyn’s Sofia with an F podcast final week, McSweeney stated she’s “making a s–t-ton of cash, which is superior.” After preliminary hesitation concerning the platform, the 41 yr previous says she’s embraced its freedom.
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“I f–king love OnlyFans,” she informed Franklyn. “It is a fantastic platform the place folks aren’t censored. They do not have adverts of their face continually. They do not have destructive algorithms pushing bulls–t. I really feel supported. I am earning profits. I get to precise myself. It is enjoyable. I find it irresistible. I am being artistic on it. It is dope.”
Regardless of how she’s come to embrace the opportunity of the platform, the place McSweeney says she will get to be attractive and humorous, the reailty alum was fearful about how folks may reply to her becoming a member of what many think about to be a intercourse and nudity website.
Like many celebs, although, McSweeney is not doing full nudity on the positioning. “Folks thought my booty gap was on it, and it wasn’t,” she stated. “They’re like, ‘Leah’s promoting footage of her butthole for 5 {dollars}’ I laughed at that so arduous, although, as a result of it isn’t true.”
On the similar time, she did concede, “It is attractive. Typically you see a boob — or two! — oh my god! However it’s additionally humorous.”
By means of OnlyFans, McSweeney additionally related with former Sopranos star Drea de Matteo, who not too long ago opened up about her personal shift to the platform after she claims her anti-vax stances and views value her appearing work. You possibly can learn all about her transition right here.
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As for the way a lot cash McSweeney’s making on the platform? Effectively, she did not pull out her financial institution assertion or something, however she did say, “One week is a couple of season,” referring to her two-year stint on RHONY and follow-up on RHUGT simply final yr.
McSweeney additionally talked about her ongoing lawsuit in opposition to NBCUniversal, Bravo, and Andy Cohen through which she says Housewives producers took benefit of her alcoholism. When requested if she blames the present for a relapse, McSweeney stated “blame” wasn’t the suitable phrase.
“Let’s change the way in which issues are completed and shield folks that you just’re making a s–t ton of cash off of,” she replied. “As a result of I believe that I ought to have the identical rights once I stroll into that work surroundings as, like, any person who walks into any work surroundings has.”
As reported in February, McSweeney filed go well with in opposition to the present’s producers, together with Andy Cohen — in addition to Bravo, NBC Common Media and extra — for allegedly making a poisonous work surroundings that exploited her psychological well being and alcohol use dysfunction within the “identify of promoting drama.”
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A rep for Andy Cohen informed TMZ on the time that McSweeney’s claims, which included him utilizing cocaine with different Bravo stars, “are fully false.”
Cohen had much more to say earlier this month in a letter despatched on to McSweeney through which he demanded, per ET, that she retract the cocaine allegation and acknowledged that “nearly each” allegation she made was “categorically false.”
She was accused of utilizing litigation to “create pretend information” and “to unfold false and malicious lies, in furtherance of a shakedown.”
McSweeney’s illustration responded with an announcement of their very own, claiming that it is “hardly stunning” Cohen wrote a letter that was acquired by the press. She argues he “is accustomed to utilizing his energy within the media to scare and intimidate,” arguing that if he needs to deal with the claims, “we propose he accomplish that in court docket, not in a letter for the press.”
