The Biggest Bombshells From Vanity Fair's 'Real Housewives' Report: Ramona Singer's Alleged Racism, Producer Coercion & More

Leah McSweeney says excessive drinking was encouraged, and she was told she was fine to film for a 2019 cast trip to Mexico, despite being hungover.

She says co-showrunner Darren Ward had warned her, “This sh-t is boring as hell,” and “You better turn it up.” Having previously been sober for nine years, she relapsed before starring on the show.

“She was too hungover to care that she’d wet the bed and so sick that she couldn’t film, she told production. But people on set kept telling her she was fine, it was just the Mexican water screwing up her stomach—the same thing had happened to them in Cartagena, Colombia, the year before.”