Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. I wanted to start by stating that last episode,

I definitely shared some incorrect information and my opinion that I shared was also very

incorrect based on that information that I had at the time, which was nothing. So when Brian Moylan and I started recording

last week, we had heard that Carolyn Manzo filed a lawsuit against Bravo and the production company

behind Ultimate Girls Trip, but none of the legal documents were made public at that point,

and we didn't really know anything about it.

And so we probably shouldn't have spoken about it, but we did anyhow. I was curious about his

take, and I had sort of something similar, but upon reading the legal documents and seeing what

was in there, what Carolyn is describing is absolutely

sexual assault. And so, you know, there is no excuse for that. If that is what happens,

what she's alleging, then I really hope that the network, you know, makes her whole. I don't

know what that means, if that's giving financial compensation.

And then it hopefully works to create a safer environment for talent, right, moving forward so that

other people aren't put in those situations. Another thing I got wrong is I thought Carolyn Manzo

was involved somehow in her sister's situation where there was a hit out on her sister and her sister's husband and they were beat up.

I think it was actually Dina's ex who was involved in that and that Dina's ex is Carolyn Manzo's brother-in-law.

And she wrote like a character statement or something to have the judges go easier on him.

I judge her for that.

I think that's a really shit thing to do when he may have been involved in abuse against your

sister. But, you know, as we know with this podcast, we kind of operate in the gray. I don't look at

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