“Love Is Blind” producers are being taken to court docket … after one of many contestants claims she was sexually assaulted — and says the incident may’ve been caught on digicam.
According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Tran Dang — a contestant on season 5 who was by no means featured within the closing product — is coming after manufacturing firms Delirium TV and Kinetic Content for the alleged incident, which she says went down in 2022.
Dang says she bought engaged to fellow contestant Thomas Smith whereas spending time within the pods … however claims he sexually assaulted her whereas filming in Mexico.
She claims Smith “incessantly groped” her, uncovered her to his bare physique, and “forcibly and repeatedly made sexual contact” together with her — with out her consent. Dang says she introduced her issues to producers however alleges they have been “swept aside.”
She’s additionally suing producers for false imprisonment, claiming she was required to stay on-call in her lodge room and subjected to around-the-clock surveillance that left her “unable to exercise her will in going anywhere she was lawfully allowed to go.”
She thinks the 24-hour surveillance means a lot of the alleged incidents ended up on movie.
Dang is in search of greater than $1 million in damages, claiming she’s suffered excessive emotional misery, ache, psychological anguish, and struggling on account of the ordeal.
“LIB” creator Chris Coelen spoke to People, which was first to report the lawsuit … saying he helps anybody who comes ahead with sexual assault claims, however provides he was “never told that she felt unsafe or experienced any of the allegations that she made.”
Delirium and Kinetic Content say Dang’s claims are meritless, too.
Fans of the present know Dang and Smith weren’t contestants on season 5 … it seems all traces of them have been scrubbed from the ultimate product. She first filed in August 2022, and it has been in mediation since February.
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