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RHONY star Bethenny Frankel has posted a video to TikTok, detailing what she feels is “exploitation” of the reality television industry and claiming that Andy Cohen “ambushed” her on his show.
Recently, the businesswoman and TV personality reunited with her former costar Jill Zarin on her Just B with Bethenny Frankel podcast and shared about crashing Zarin’s husband Bobby’s 2018 funeral with cameras.
According to Frankel, Bravo producer Andy Cohen was allegedly to blame for sending cameras to the somber event, causing a conflict between the two ladies.
Now, Frankel has posted a video to TikTok, doubling down on the funeral crashing accusation and making a number of additional claims about the non-union industry that has been up in arms about forming its own union ever since SAG-AFTRA went on strike.
“We deserve a response from the entertainment industry acknowledging that we have been heard,” Frankel captioned the video.
In her rant, Frankel starts off saying how her and Cohen “came up together” and shared many secrets on beach walks throughout their “parallel” journeys. She acknowledged that the network Bravo is Andy’s first priority (above the needs of the talent) and that she felt “ambushed” when going on his show Watch What Happens Live.
“I have had opinions on the [Real Housewives] franchise in particular and reality TV in particular,” she said. “I’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable with certain things. I’ve been put in situations where I felt that it wasn’t safe. I recently found out that I crashed a funeral and that was very jarring because it’s felt like there is exploitation without compensation for many people.”
“I have now, in the past couple of days, heard stories about people whose spouses have lost jobs and people who have been threatened with contracts where they cannot use their own business or work on their own projects afterwards ’cause the network was to own them.”
“There’s the Bethenny clause, of course,” she added, referring to a line in her contract explicitly stating that the television network would have no rights to her future business ventures she may receive as a result of the show.
She says there are many things she’s been thinking about that “aren’t equal and fair” and that “reality talent isn’t properly compensated by and large.”
Despite “gag orders” that some of her industry colleagues have, Frankel concluded by saying she is going to get answers from the entertainment industry. “We deserve and answer,” she insisted before wrapping up the rant.
Over the past 24 hours, Frankel posted two more similar rants detailing the terms of the reality talent union that she is attempting to form. You can watch both of those below.
