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Gretchen Rossi revealed her version of the story concerning Caroline Manzo’s claim that Brandi Glanville sexually assaulted her in the bathroom on The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco.
Gretchen addressed being in the bathroom at the time, and claimed she doesn’t remember seeing what Caroline described – and that the cast and many in production were “confused” by her allegations.
Caroline is now suing Bravo, suggesting that producers encourage excessive alcohol intake and influence stars to sexually harass castmates for ratings.
According to an affidavit via PEOPLE, Caroline previously stated that Brandi sexually assaulted her in the bathroom: “When I tried to escape the bathroom, Glanville then threw me against the bathroom door hitting my head, and locked me in the bathroom where she forcibly fondled my vagina against my will.”
But on “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast,” Gretchen suggested a different version of events, and claimed that Brandi on the trip did “what Brandi’s always done,” and she “delivers” what the “network and production asks of her.”
“I’m not going to take away from whatever Caroline maybe felt and experienced in that because I’m not in her shoes, however, all of us as a cast and a lot of production felt that the accusations being made … we were all very confused by it,” said Gretchen, via @breakingtherulespodclips on Instagram. “Because when we were there in that moment, Caroline gave no inkling to the fact that she was in duress, that she was upset, that she was uncomfortable with it.”
She then addressed the alleged “incident” in the bathroom.
“I was in there — now don’t get me wrong, I was drinking, so I wasn’t really like completely coherent to paying attention to every little detail [that] was happening,” she continued. “But what’s weird to me is whatever supposedly happened in the bathroom — that I don’t remember seeing or you know being a part of — I feel it was way worse than the living room when Brandi was like kissing her and like doing nothing with her, and there was 50 people in that room between cast and crew and everything that was going on [and] video village watching from down below.”
“So if it was really that bad and it was truly at that level, I would have thought at that point that somebody would have stepped in,” expressed Gretchen, “or somebody would have said, ‘Okay guys, this is being taken too far.'”
