Vanderpump Rules alum Faith Stowers is suing Bravo for ‘racism, sexual harassment and physical assault’ in a new bombshell lawsuit.
According to court documents filed on Friday, the reality TV personality, 35, is accusing the network of discrimination, retaliation and enabling an unsafe work environment on set.
In her filing, obtained by PEOPLE, Faith also named three of her former castmates — Lala Kent, 33, Stassi Schroeder, 35, and Kristen Doute, 41 — for harassment.
In one instance, she alleged Kent held a knife up to her neck and threatened to ‘cut a bitch’ when 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’ suit also names Vanderpump as she claimed the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum threatened to have her fired from her namesake show if she refused to film with her alleged assailant.
Vanderpump Rules alum Faith Stowers is suing Bravo for ‘racism, sexual harassment and physical assault’ in a new bombshell lawsuit
According to court documents filed on Friday, the reality TV personality, 35, accused the network of discrimination, retaliation and enabling an unsafe work environment on set
Stowers also named the executive producer, claiming they discouraged her from filing a police report regarding the hostile encounter with Kent.
DailyMail.com has reached out to reps for Bravo as well as Kent, Schroeder and Doute for comment.
In her lawsuit, the former castmate claimed Schroeder and Doute had accused her of going AWOL from the United States Army and allegedly said she was a ‘serial criminal’ who drugged and robbed men in Los Angeles.
She claimed Schroeder and Doute also filed a ‘false’ police report in 2018 listing Stowers as the assailant when ‘the only similarities between Stowers and the assailant were their gender and skin color.’
Stowers alleged that she was regularly taunted with racially insensitive remarks and mocked for having ‘nappy hair.’
Back in June 2020, Schroeder and Doute — alongside Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni — were axed from VPR when Stowers went on Instagram Live and vocalized these alleged incidents.
She said her castmates’ behavior was a ‘brazen and defamatory campaign’ of ‘racial harassment’ with the intention to ‘harm’ her and her credibility, and when she spoke up, she was allegedly ‘warned’ to ‘keep quiet and play nice.’
Following the scandal and subsequent firing of her former co-stars, she said she was then demoted to an unpaid ‘volunteer’ for the show’s fifth season.
In her filing, she also named three of her former castmates. She alleged Lala Kent, 33, held a knife up to her neck and threatened to ‘cut a bitch’ when 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 claimed Schroeder and Doute had accused her of going AWOL from the United States Army and allegedly said she was a ‘serial criminal’ who drugged and robbed men in Los Angeles
Stowers’ suit also names Lisa Vanderpump as she claimed the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum threatened to have her fired from her namesake show if she refused to film with her alleged assailant
Stowers alleged that she was regularly taunted with racially insensitive remarks and mocked for having ‘nappy hair’
Back in June 2020, Schroeder and Doute — alongside Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni — were axed from VPR when Stowers went on Instagram Live and vocalized these alleged incidents. She said her castmates’ behavior was a ‘brazen and defamatory campaign’ of ‘racial harassment’ with the intention to ‘harm’ her and her credibility, and when she spoke up, she was allegedly ‘warned’ to ‘keep quiet and play nice’
She appeared in seasons four and five. She noted that for the fourth season she was only paid $5,000 — a noticeably smaller sum compared to her counterparts’ earnings; Rachel Leviss, Stowers, Kent, James Kennedy, James Montana seen from L-R in March 2016
Additionally, she noted that for the prior season she was only paid $5,000 — a noticeably smaller sum compared to her counterparts’ earnings.
‘[This was] an astonishingly cynical act of performative allyship,’ she said about Bravo and NBCUniversal’s dismissal of her castmates’ actions.
Stowers’ filing is the latest in string of lawsuits in a ‘reality reckoning,’ which has also seen the Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel leading the charge to create ‘systemic change’ at Bravo and eradicating mistreatment against their stars despite not suing the network herself.
Notably, Stowers has retained legal representation from the same attorneys who represent 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 vets, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright.
In a recent episode of The Valley, she weighed in on and broke down over her past racially insensitive behavior and actions.
New episodes of Vanderpump Rules and The Valley air every Tuesday on Bravo.
