Brandi Glanville Threatens to Sue Bravo Over ‘Uncontrollable Stress’


Brandi Glanville
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Brandi Glanville has threatened to take legal motion against Bravo for allegedly causing her stress-induced issues.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 51, took to social media on Tuesday, July 2, to share the news.

“I’ve been left no selection but to sue Bravo,” she wrote via X. “This stress has ruined my health. I actually have uncontrollable stress induced angio-edema I haven’t worked for a 12 months … to [sic] depressed to do my podcast.” (The last episode of Glanville’s “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered” podcast was released on May 15.)

Us Weekly has reached out to Glanville’s rep for comment.

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While it’s unclear what “stress” Glanville is referring to, her post also claimed she is “getting used as a fallguy.” Glanville also said she has “receipts 4days” regarding the unspecified matter and said she was also “to [sic] swollen 4cameo or OF [Only Fans].”

The previous Real Housewife joined Cameo in 2019, which coincided with the start of her second stint on RHOBH, and joined OnlyFans in July 2023. She revealed on her podcast in February that OnlyFans “saved” her “life” after the fact star didn’t earn an income for six months.

Glanville’s legal announcement comes after a tumultuous period for the fact star who was accused of sexually harassing Caroline Manzo through the January 2023 filming of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip season 4 in Morocco.

Manzo, 62, filed a lawsuit against Bravo and its production firms in January 2024 over an alleged “traumatic” incident, in line with documents obtained by Us Weekly on the time. The Real Housewives of Latest Jersey alum alleged that a “clearly intoxicated” Glanville kissed her without consent.

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Although Glanville was not listed as a defendant in Manzo’s lawsuit, Glanville’s legal team responded in a press release to Us, which read: “Sadly, Brandi needed to wake as much as yet one more lawsuit that features defamatory, false accusations about her. While filming, Brandi followed what the producers asked of her, and there was no sexual assault. She is innocent of those absurd accusations which have weighed on her mental and physical health for much too long with out a word of support from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.”

In April, the Real Housewives spinoff’s executive producer Lisa Shannon also responded to Manzo’s lawsuit. In court documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Shannon alleged that Manzo “told us that she didn’t feel sexually violated, she felt ‘disrespected’ by Glanville.”

While it’s unclear if the Morocco trip will ever air, Glanville told Us she is hopeful viewers will at some point watch what happened for themselves.

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“I’ve been asking for it to air this whole entire time,” she told Us on April 25. “We were having such a very good show that there was no need for this to be a component of the storyline. Just girls at a celebration having fun, everyone having fun, nobody uncomfortable.”

Glanville also shared that LeAnn Rimes, who’s married to Glanville’s ex-husband, Eddie Cibrian, has encouraged Glanville to take higher care of herself.  “[LeAnn] said, ‘You would like a breath coach,” Glanville said. “She told me an extended time ago, but it surely just type of resonated with me.”

Glanville, who shares two sons, Mason, 21, and Jake, 17, with Cibrian, 51, once blamed Rimes, 41, for her former husband’s infidelity, which led to a decade-long feud between Glanville, Cibrian and Rimes. The feud led to 2018 when Glanville shared via X that the three parties “sat and talked for hours [and] hashed every part out.”