An Emmy-winning producer on a string of Bravo hits has claimed that “it’s a bummer to [the network’s producers] when [a cast member] will get sober.”

Beloved producer Patrick McDonald, who just lately stepped again from his work on actuality TV to launch an OnlyFans profession, appeared on Bethenny Frankel’s “Simply B” podcast on Friday, the place the pair additionally urged that the reveals rewards drunkenness and punishes “boring sobriety.”

The claims come as Bravo prepares to defend itself in a lawsuit filed by former “Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis” star Leah McSweeney, who alleges that Bravo coerced and manipulated her into abandoning her sobriety as a result of producers believed it could make for higher TV if she was ingesting.

“The dependancy and substance abuse storylines at all times made me slightly uneasy,” McDonald, who’s sober after battling a meth dependancy, mentioned on the podcast.

“Anytime we have been speaking about somebody’s alcoholism or drug dependancy — any of that — it’s so, so fragile. It’s not one thing to be taken mild, and but it will get amplified by these reveals,” he mentioned.

“I can’t think about making an attempt to… keep or get sober whereas being on considered one of these reveals… It’s a bummer to manufacturing when somebody will get sober,” McDonald claimed.

The previous “Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis” star Frankel and McDonald mentioned they felt that stars get higher therapy in the event that they’re creating boozy drama.Additionally they pointed to stars like, Scheana Shay of “Vanderpump Guidelines” being demoted to “good friend of” on numerous seasons as a result of her story traces weren’t darkish sufficient.

A Bravo insider advised us, “there isn’t any fact to any of this.”

A choose within the McSweeney case just lately dominated that Bravo and its manufacturing firms have a First Modification proper to require their solid members to drink. However he mentioned that the community must reply McSweeney’s claims that they “harassed” and “coerced” her in an try and get her to fall off the wagon. (Attorneys for Bravo and its manufacturing firms have argued in court docket that the way in which they dealt with McSweeney each on- and off-set are protected by the First Modification).

Vainness Honest additionally just lately revealed a deeply reported piece that claimed, amongst different issues, that “Actual Housewives” cameras rushed to movie drunk and incapacitated ladies in humiliating conditions, somewhat than to assist them to get better.

McDonald made headlines final week when he mentioned {that a} “poisonous” work tradition at a few of the manufacturing firms that make reveals for Bravo — which, he claimed, included working 12-plus hour days, six days per week, together with breaking apart violent fights on set — ultimately pushed him to affix grownup content material websites like OnlyFans.

McDonald additionally mentioned he believes manufacturing bosses ultimately caught wind of his NSFW gig and iced him out of actuality tv gigs after years of engaged on Bravo reveals like “Vanderpump Guidelines,” “The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and “The Actual Housewives of Potomac.”

“Issues went radio silent with govt groups,” he mentioned in earlier video he posted. “It damage my emotions – for the final 5 years, [I’ve] given a lot of myself to those reveals.”

He advised Web page Six, “All I’m doing right here is advocating for truthful and humane therapy within the office.”

A rep for Bravo didn’t remark.