Leah McSweeney says it’s iconic The Real Housewives of New York a moment that many fans “loved” was actually a “terrible” experience for her.
In an exclusive preview of her interview with Impact x Nightlinewhich will be available to stream Dec. 7 on Hulu, McSweeney opens up to ABC News anchor Ju Chang about the Season 12 episode of the hit Bravo reality series called “Hurricane Leah.”
In that episode, McSweeney and her co-stars take a weekend trip to Newport, Rhode Island, where she is seen asking for glasses of alcohol before going wild, much to the shock of Ramona Singer, who at one point exclaims, “I thought you were an alcoholic who was treated.”
Looking back on it now, McSweeney says, “It was horrible.”
Ramona Singer and Leah McSweeney. Jim Spellman/WireImage; John Sciulli/Getty RHONY: Ramone singer questions Leah McSweeney’s sobriety after ‘getting really drunk’
“The next day when I finish filming and I’m crying hysterically in my apartment, my stomach hurts so much. I don’t know what I did. I don’t remember what I did. I don’t know what I said,” she continues, before admitting that she was ” drunk in a swoon”.
“Oh, I was totally drunk,” says McSweeney, who just joined RHONY and was considered a fan favorite at the beginning of the 12th season.
She adds, “And I was so nervous to see myself. And what are people going to say? They’re going to say, ‘You’re a drunken disaster. You’re a terrible mother. You were disgusting.’ Instead, they loved it, which really messed with my brain because I was like, ‘This isn’t funny.’ ”
After struggling with alcohol abuse, something she’s been very open about on the show, McSweeney tells Chang, “The same week I got the audition call was the same week I came back after nine years.”
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McSweeney — who remained as a regular cast member RHONY until season 13, but has appeared in one season since then The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip — she tells Chang that she wants the other women who appear on the show to be treated with respect.
“I just wish the people in charge of the women on those shows would treat them with more dignity,” she says.
McSweeney’s Comments on Impact x Nightline come after the statements she made in vanity fair about the way the franchise has treated her and others or how it has portrayed them on screen, and McSweeney even claimed that the producers had hoped she would be back in front of the cameras.
In a statement to both vanity fair and ABC News, Shed Media, the production company behind it housewives franchise, said that “cast members and crew make their own decisions about whether or not to consume alcohol.”
“IMPACT x Nightline: Reality Reckoning? Bethenny Frankel’s fight for change begins streaming on Hulu tomorrow, December 7th
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