Leah McSweeney Claims Andy Cohen Recruited Real Housewives Stars to 'Publicly Disparage' Her in The Press-quang

McSweeney first filed a lawsuit against Cohen in February 2024, claiming she was a victim of discrimination and pressured to drink alcohol despite her sobriety

Leah McSweeney is claiming Andy Cohen orchestrated an "attack" with former and current Real Housewives stars.

In new court filings obtained by PEOPLE, the former Real Housewives of New York City star, 42, alleged that the Bravo mogul used the press for a "coordinated attack" against her after she filed her 2024 lawsuit against him, Bravo and other subsidiaries for a toxic work environment that encouraged drug use.

In her initial filing, McSweeney claimed that she told Bravo producers that she suffered from alcohol use disorder but intentionally planned scenarios where her "disabilities" would be exacerbated in order to "create morbidly salacious reality television."

She also alleged that Cohen engaged in "cocaine use with Housewives and other 'Bravolebrities' that he employs," and would provide Housewives who partook in the drug with him "more favorable treatment and edits."

After the lawsuit went public, McSweeney claimed in new filings that Cohen abused his power to "direct or induce" other Bravo stars to say she was a "liar" in the press.

She wrote that Cohen “either directly requested or induced current and former ‘Real Housewives’ cast members publicly disparage McSweeney’s character, and propensity for truthfulness, to curry favor with Cohen in the hopes that such favor would propel their entertainment careers."

PEOPLE has reached out to attorneys for both Cohen and McSweeney.

The filing named more than 20 Bravo stars, including Luann de Lesseps, Kyle Richards, Melissa Gorga, Kandi Burruss and Dorinda Medley.

McSweeney also specifically referenced Lisa Vanderpump's April 2024 appearance on The Talk where she opened up about her "very close relationship" with Cohen before weighing in on the ongoing lawsuit.

"He’s inappropriately naughty, like I am, too. I mean, that’s what Bravo is a lot of the time. But it is innocuous. He’s a gay man that we have a lot of fun with. So, am I on his side? Damn right, I’m on his side," Vanderpump said of Cohen, which prompted claps from the studio audience.

The filing then referenced Heather Dubrow's Let's Talk podcast, where she implied McSweeney should be "thanking" the network because she was “making money and thriving because of this platform." Margaret Josephs was also named for her Page Six interview, where she claimed that the allegations against Cohen were an attempt to "assassinate [Cohen’s] character and that is disgusting.”

McSweeney also attempted to double down on her claims that Cohen gives preferential treatments to reality stars who use cocaine with him. She alleged that two unnamed cast members confided in her about Cohen's alleged drug use and named other instances where Bravo stars like NeNe Leakes has called him a "cocaine head" and his former friend Kathy Griffin claimed he once offered her cocaine.

The new filings come after the two parties appeared in a court hearing in November 2024, and Cohen filed a motion to dismiss which a judge ultimately let three of her disability-related claims go forward and dismissed all the others in whole or in part.