Wednesday 13 July 2022 09:15 PM Love Is Blind contestant sues Netflix show with depriving cast of food, water, ... trends now
A contestant from Love Is Blind season two is suing the Netflix show with claims of food, water, and sleep deprivation while providing an 'excess of alcohol.'
Jeremy Hartwell has filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the producers as he made several accusations about how the show had treated cast members.
The 36-year-old entrepreneur's Los Angeles based lawyer Chantal Payton of Payton Employment Law, PC released a statement on Wednesday.
It read: 'They intentionally underpaid the cast members, deprived them of food, water and sleep, plied them with booze and cut off their access to personal contacts and most of the outside world.
Taking a stand: A contestant from Love Is Blind named Jeremy Hartwell (pictured) season two is suing the Netflix show with claims of food, water, and sleep deprivation while providing an 'excess of alcohol'
'This made cast members hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making.'
The statement also had claims that contestants would be fined heavily if they opted to leave the show.
It read: 'The contracts required contestants to agree that if they left the show before filming was done, they would be penalized by being required to pay $50,000 in "liquidated damages."
'With that being 50 times what some of the cast members would earn during the entire time that they worked, this certainly had the potential to instill fear in the cast and enable production to exert even further control.'
The 36-year-old entrepreneur's Los Angeles based lawyer Chantal Payton of Payton Employment Law, PC released a statement on Wednesday which read: 'They intentionally underpaid the cast members, deprived them of food, water and sleep, plied them with booze and cut off their access to personal contacts and most of the outside world'
According to Hartwell's legal team the lawsuit serves as 'a proposed class action on behalf of all participants in Love Is Blind and other non-scripted productions' created by Kinetic Content from 2018 to 2022.
According to court documents obtained by UsWeekly, Hartwell alleged that 'the only drinks that [the show] regularly provided to the cast were alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks and mixers.'
And he went on to claim that 'hydrating drinks such as water were strictly limited to the cast during the day.'
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