Vanderpump Rules alum Faith Stowers is suing Bravo for “racism, sexual harassment and physical abuse” in a new bombshell lawsuit.
According to court documents filed Friday, the reality TV personality, 35, accuses the network of discrimination, retaliation and creating an unsafe work environment on set.
In her file, obtained by PEOPLEFaith also named three of her former castmates — Lala Kent, 33, Stassi Schroeder, 35, and Kristen Doute, 41 — for harassment.
In one instance, she claims Kent held a knife to her neck and threatened to “cut a bitch off” while they were filming together at Lisa Vanderpump’s SUR restaurant in an unaired scene from season four – when she had just joined the cast.
Stowers’ lawsuit also names Vanderpump, alleging that the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum threatened to have her fired from her eponymous show if she refused to film with her alleged attacker.
Vanderpump Rules alum Faith Stowers sues Bravo for ‘racism, sexual harassment and physical abuse’ in new bombshell lawsuit
According to court documents filed Friday, the reality TV personality, 35, accused the network of discrimination, retaliation and creating an unsafe work environment on set.
Stowers also singled out the executive producer, claiming they stopped her from reporting the hostile encounter with Kent to police.
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives from Bravo, Kent, Schroeder and Doute for comment.
In her lawsuit, the former castmate alleged that Schroeder and Doute accused her of ditching the U.S. military and that she was a “serial criminal” who drugged and robbed men in Los Angeles.
She alleged that Schroeder and Doute also filed a “false” police report in 2018 that listed Stowers as the attacker, when “the only similarities between Stowers and the attacker were their gender and skin color.”
Stowers claimed she was regularly taunted with racially insensitive comments and mocked for having “nappy hair.”
In June 2020, Schroeder and Doute – alongside Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni – were dropped from VPR when Stowers went on Instagram Live and addressed these alleged incidents.
She said her castmates’ behavior was a “brazen and defamatory campaign” of “racial harassment” intended to “damage” her and her credibility, and when she spoke up she was reportedly “warned” to “keep quiet to love and to be kind’. .’
Following the scandal and subsequent firing of her former co-stars, she said she was subsequently demoted to an unpaid “volunteer” for the show’s fifth season.
In her filing, she also named three of her former castmates. She claimed Lala Kent, 33, held a knife to her neck and threatened to “cut a bitch off” while they were filming together at Lisa Vanderpump’s SUR restaurant in an unaired scene from season four – when she had just joined the cast
In her lawsuit, the former castmate alleged that Schroeder and Doute accused her of ditching the U.S. military and that she was a “serial criminal” who had drugged and robbed men in Los Angeles.
Stowers’ lawsuit also names Lisa Vanderpump, claiming the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum threatened to have her fired from her eponymous show if she refused to film with her alleged attacker
Stowers claimed she was regularly taunted with racially insensitive comments and mocked for having “nappy hair”
In June 2020, Schroeder and Doute – alongside Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni – were dropped from VPR when Stowers went on Instagram Live and addressed these alleged incidents. She said her castmates’ behavior was a “brazen and defamatory campaign” of “racial harassment” intended to “damage” her and her credibility, and when she spoke up she was reportedly “warned” to “keep quiet to love and to be kind’. ‘
She appeared in seasons four and five. She noted that she received only $5,000 for the fourth season – a noticeably smaller amount compared to her colleagues’ earnings; Rachel Leviss, Stowers, Kent, James Kennedy, James Montana seen from L-R in March 2016
Additionally, she noted that she only received $5,000 for the previous season – a noticeably smaller amount compared to her counterparts’ earnings.
“(This was) an astonishingly cynical act of performative allyship,” she said of Bravo and NBCUniversal’s rejection of her castmates’ actions.
Stowers’ filing is the latest in a series of lawsuits in a “reality reckoning” that has also seen Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel take the lead in bringing about “systemic change” at Bravo and calling out the mistreatment of their stars to row, even though they didn’t. sue the network itself.
Notably, Stowers has retained legal representation from the same attorneys representing Frankel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Doute recently returned to Bravo as the star of the new spinoff series The Valley, alongside fellow Vanderpump Rules veterans Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright.
On a recent episode of The Valley, she weighed in on her racially insensitive behavior and past actions.
New episodes of Vanderpump Rules and The Valley air every Tuesday on Bravo.