Stephen Richardson is taking legal action.
The Love Is Blind season seven contestant alum has filed a lawsuit against Netflix accusing the series’ creators of “inhumane working conditions,” according to documents reviewed by Entertainment Weekly Sept. 17.
In the suit, which also names production companies Kinetic Content and Delirium TV, Richardson alleged that contestants should have been classified as “employees” in their contracts but were instead “willfully misclassified” as “contestant, participant, cast member, and similar job titles (herein referred to as the ‘Cast’), as independent contractors,” per the outlet.
Additionally, the reality TV personality alleged in the docs that the show creators had “complete domination” over the contestants’ “time, schedule, and their ability to eat, drink, and sleep, and communicate with the outside world” while shooting Love Is Blind.
In particular, Richardson, 35, accused the creators of taking away contestants’ IDs, wallets, phones and credit cards so they could not leave the hotel living quarters or set.
And when they were provided with food and drinks, Richardson said in the filing that the production companies allegedly only offered “alcohol beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks, and mixers” as a way to deliberately intoxicate them.