‘Vanderpump Rules’ Alum Faith Stowers Claims Bravo Producers FORCED Her to ‘Get Intimate’ with Lala Kent Against Her Will

‘Vanderpump Rules’ Alum Faith Stowers Claims Bravo Producers FORCED Her to ‘Get Intimate’ with Lala Kent Against Her Will

Faith Stowers had romantic feelings for Lala Kent during the fourth season of Vanderpump Rules. Stowers confessed that she had “developed feelings” for Kent in her recently filed lawsuit against Bravo and NBCUniversal. 

She claimed that she confided in a producer about her secret crush and alleged that the two were pressured to “get intimate” and “touch each other” on camera during a cast getaway. 

Stowers also alleged that she experienced sexual harassment and physical violence during her time on the Bravo series, as the “only black cast member.”

Stowers described her feelings for Kent and how she was encouraged to act on the crush during a cast trip in court documents, obtained by Radar Online.

The lawsuit stated — “Stowers’s experience on Vanderpump Rules during Season 4 included sexual harassment and physical violence. When Stowers confided in a producer that she had developed feelings for Kent, production seemed gleeful to make the dynamic as awkward and uncomfortable as possible.”

Court documents said — “For the cast trip to Hawaii, production arranged for Kent and Stowers to stay in a room with a single bed. Moreover, production pressured Kent and Stowers to ‘get intimate’ and “touch each other sensually on camera.”

Stowers described the experience as “greatly distressing,” later claiming

that Kent had gone after her with a knife, in a separate incident. She alleged that she was “violently assaulted” after Kent became “severely agitated, losing all self-control” during a verbal disagreement at SUR. 

She claimed in the lawsuit—”With the cameras rolling, Kent grabbed a knife from a nearby counter and began brandishing it at Stowers, holding it to her neck and threatening to ‘cut a b——.’”

Stowers claimed that she was afraid that Kent “would stab, slice, or disfigure her” during the escalated argument. 

She added that she was “deeply shaken” and reported the alleged incident to NBC and Evolution.

Stowers claimed that the show’s executive producer, Bill Langworthy, called her to “discourage her from involving the police or escalating the situation by speaking to the media.” She alleged that Langworthy “downplayed” the incident and “strongly implied” that she would suffer “severe career ramifications” if she went public with her claims.

She also claimed that NBC and Evolution “began the cover-up” immediately after she revealed her plan to involve police.  

Stowers claimed that the next day she was warned that “she would be terminated if she could not find a way to ‘get along’ with Kent.”

Mark Geragos and Bryan Freedman, the powerhouse legal team repping Stowers, told Radar — “NBC and Evolution clearly believe that workplace safety rules, employment laws, and basic decency do not apply to those in reality TV. Vicious assaults, racist harassment, and impugning the service of veterans are apparently acceptable to NBC and Evolution for the sake of ratings. Faith did not know what kind of cesspool she had found herself in and reported this unlawful behavior to her superiors. In response, she was demoted to ‘volunteer’ and stripped of her already meager compensation.”

 

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