“Vanderpump Rules” alum Faith Stowers has filed a lawsuit against Bravo and parent company, NBCUniversal for discrimination, retaliation, and subjecting her to a hostile work environment during her two seasons on the hit reality show.
In the lawsuit filed on Friday, April 5, Stowers claims that she was forced to deal with “racism, sexual harassment and physical assault” after joining the cast in season four according to People magazine.
One incident recalled in the suit alleges that while in a heated verbal and physical altercation with cast member Lala Kent, a knife was held to Stowers’ throat by Kent with him threatening to “cut a b—-.”
Stowers’ lawsuit also names notorious castmates Kristen Doute and Stassi Schroeder, who she says accused her of going “AWOL” from the US Army and being a “serial criminal” across Los Angeles who liked to drug and rob men. Stowers also notes the pair even went so far as to file a “false” police report on her.
“The only similarities between Stowers and the assailant were their gender and skin color,” the lawsuit reads.
In June of 2020, Doute and Schroeder were both fired from the show a week after Stowers first revealed the pair had reported her to the police involving a crime she had nothing to do with.
Nonetheless, Stowers says all of the things she endured during her time on the show amounted to a “brazen and defamatory campaign” of “racial harassment” with intentions to “harm” herself and her reputation. Upon expressing her concerns with the show’s producers and network brass she was “warned” that she should “keep quiet and play nice.” Stowers additionally claims she was then demoted within the ranks and became something of an unpaid “volunteer.”
“Vanderpump Rules” season 11 is currently airing on Bravo.
