{"id":458154,"date":"2026-02-09T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458154\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:22:08","slug":"andy-cohen-is-suddenly-making-nice-with-bravo-stars-as-leah-mcsweeney-lawsuit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458154\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen is suddenly making nice with Bravo stars as Leah McSweeney lawsuit looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Cohen is not known for his kumbaya attitude toward his foes. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But lately it seems as if the Bravo figurehead <\/a>feels suddenly called upon to heal ancient wounds and right long-forgotten wrongs, simultaneously ending bitter feuds with former \u201cReal Housewives\u201d stars\u00a0Carole Radziwill <\/a>and Nene Leakes, as well as Kathy Griffin, whom he replaced as CNN\u2019s\u00a0New Year\u2019s Eve host.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Either Cohen was visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve .\u2009.\u2009. or perhaps something else is afoot.\u00a0One Bravo World insider suggests the latter, noting that Leakes, Radziwill and Griffin happen to all be germane to a lawsuit filed by\u00a0former \u201cReal Housewives\u201d star Leah McSweeney<\/a>, which is currently before a judge.<\/p>\n

\"AndyIn the suit, McSweeney famously accused Cohen of doing cocaine with select \u201cHousewives.\u201d Getty Images for Vox Media<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling you \u2014 he\u2019s worried about that suit,\u201d they speculated.<\/p>\n

The \u201cReal Housewives of New York City\u201d<\/a> star claimed in a 2024 filing\u00a0that producers preyed on her alcohol addiction, intentionally trying to make her fall off the wagon\u00a0to make ratings-grabbing TV. (Bravo has denied wrongdoing.)<\/p>\n

A judge dismissed parts of the suit but kept much of her case in tact, including her allegation that \u201cproducers directly coerced and harassed [her] based on her [addiction].\u201d It\u2019s expected to become the first suit filed against the network by one of its\u00a0former stars to be heard in open court.<\/p>\n

\"LeahLeah McSweeney, right, arrives at Federal Court in lower Manhattan. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

In the suit, McSweeney famously accused Cohen of doing cocaine with select \u201cHousewives.\u201d Griffin has publicly accused Cohen of cocaine use, claiming in 2017 that on an unspecified date\u00a0he offered her a line before she went on his talk show. (Cohen has denied all the cocaine accusations.) Radziwill was close with Cohen during much of the time relevant to the suit.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Leakes \u2014 who also sued Bravo for discrimination \u2014\u00a0is working for the network again with no public explanation about how she came to forgive it. Bravo told us, \u201cAs previously stated, there was an outside investigation into those allegations made by Leah McSweeney against Andy Cohen and the claims were found to be unsubstantiated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen is not known for his kumbaya attitude toward his foes. \u00a0 But lately it seems as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[8205,86345,236,88,121819,112263,60399],"class_list":{"0":"post-458154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-andy-cohen","9":"tag-carole-radziwill","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-nene-leakes","13":"tag-new-years-eve","14":"tag-real-housewives-of-new-york-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}