In a new report from Vanity Fair, former ‘Real Housewives of New York’ star Ramona Singer has been accused of making various racist comments during the filming of the show’s 13th season.
circulated about OG Housewife Ramona Singer, who had been on the show for all 13 seasons and who — according to certain tabloid sources — had made racist comments during filming, which she didn’t want to address at a reunion.
While Bravo never verified those claims, it apparently did conduct an investigation into several formal complaints against the Housewife. And earlier this year, the network aired a revamped version ofbetween 2020 and 2021. It grapples with the sometimes-questionable ethics allegedly employed by producers attempting to get stars to become their most salacious selves for audiences; tackles Bethenny Frankel’sfor reality stars to unionize; and provides a detailed timeline of the events that allegedly preceded and followed season 13. It also highlights perspective from Eboni Williams — the first Black woman to star in, who joined the show for the 13th season — to whom Singer reportedly made some of the racist remarks in question. For her part, Singer flat-out denied some of the allegations — including that she had ever used the N-word on set — to, and attempted to explain away others. Shed Media, Warner Bros. Discovery, Bravo, and NBCUniversal — the companies involved with RHONY’s production — apparently declined the magazine’s request for comment, though the Cut has contacted them as well. We will update when we hear back.the network reportedly scheduled a virtual “education session” to help the previously all-white cast identify and avoid racially insensitive behavior. Topics reportedly included: “How Black women are treated in larger society and the Black community,” “Microaggressions,” “Appropriate vs. Harmful/Offensive language,” and “What to do when you say something offensive? How do you move forward in that relationship?”that during the meeting, the women discussed the stereotype that Black fathers are not present in their children’s lives. Williams said Singer reportedly asked: “What if they don’t have a father? Why can’t I say that?” and then doubled down, adding: “Most of them don’t.” When the show’s publicist — also a Black woman — responded that she has a father, Singer allegedly cited a study that suggested the publicist was an exception. Leah McSweeney, a former Housewife who was on the call, recalled the incident happening that way.“In that spirit, I asked a question about a statistic I had read about single-parent households, where children with single-parent households were statistically less likely to succeed than two-parent households.”In an episode during that same season, Williams recalled a group conversation in which Luann de Lesseps described her as “an angry woman,” which Williams said she interpreted as “an angry Black woman.” After De Lesseps insisted that she never mentioned Williams’s race, Williams left the gathering, and the scene ended. But a source who purportedly stuck around toldafter Williams’s departure, Singer had an outburst. “This is why we didn’t need Black people on the show,” she reportedly exclaimed. “This is gonna ruin our show.”, Singer countered that this incident “absolutely” did not happen, she said that actually, she supported diversifying the cast “well before” Williams was added.In a subsequent incident, Singer reportedly asked Williams about her partner’s race. When Williams refused to respond, Singer allegedly told Darian Edmondson, a Black producer, that the interaction reminded her of a time when her Jewish colleagues called her a “Catholic slur.” The slur Singer named, according to Edmonson, was “shiksa,” a Yiddish term for a non-Jewish woman. Edmondson said she didn’t know it, and recalls Singer replying: “Oh, it’s literally like somebody calling you a n- - - - -.”that she “never” said the N-word and that Edmondson “misrepresented” the interaction. “I did describe an incident where I was called a shiksa while working in college,” she wrote, “but I did not compare the the two experiences.” An NBCUniversal investigation into Singer’s comments was “inconclusive,” but found that she had a hard time “telling Black crew members apart.” Williams claims that in 2021, she found out that Singer had been reported to HR. Williams says that on a call with NBCU executives and an external lawyer, she learned that the subsequent investigation found Singer’s remarks about the show not needing Black cast members to be “inconclusive,” though it determined that Singer had said she struggled to tell Black crew members apart. Williams claims a person on the call confirmed that Singer had said the N-word, and that a lawyer tried to downplay it, arguing that Singer just said the slur, but did not use it against Edmondson. In response, NBCU’s chief diversity officer, who is biracial, reportedly told the lawyer, “No, what we’re not gonna do is sit here and litigate the capacity in which the N-word was used in the presence of a Black woman.” . She says that she met with producers three days later to discuss her exit, but they urged her to stay, one saying, “Listen, what you’re giving us is exactly what we want. If we wanted a different Black woman, we know how to get them.” Williams alleges that Lisa Shannon, senior vice president of programming and development for Shed, the subsidiary production company that works onsuggested that Williams try to take the racist comments less seriously. “Eboni, this show is a comedy,” Shannon reportedly said. 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