Love Is Blind contestant Tran Dang has hit manufacturing firms Kinetic Content material and Delirium TV with a sexual assault, false imprisonment and negligence lawsuit, claims the businesses and the present’s creator are pushing again towards.
Claiming she was “aggressively recruited” to seem on the hit Netflix actuality sequence and “deliberately sequestered for 2 weeks” within the present’s pods by producers, Dang’s criticism alleges she was attacked by her then on-screen fiancé Thomas Smith on Might 3, 2022 whereas in Mexico capturing Love Is Blind’s fifth season. The submitting from Houston regulation agency Wallace & Allen LLP particulars that “attributable to Delirium TV and Kinetic Content material’s 24-hour surveillance of Plaintiff and Defendant Smith, most if not all of those traumatic acts had been filmed by the manufacturing crew and inside their data.”
“Delirium TV and Kinetic Content material producers made makes an attempt to masks Plaintiff’s sexual assault by characterizing it as a scarcity of attraction on a part of the Plaintiff,” in line with the criticism, which seeks a jury trial.
Learn Dang’s submitting towards the Love Is Blind producers and Smith.
The lawsuit filed in Harris County District Courtroom filed damningly provides that Dang was “was baffled that nobody had intervened to cease the harassment.” Upon reaching out to a Love Is Blind assistant producer, Dang provides the crew member left her with the impression “that she was at fault for what had occurred with Thomas Smith by not speaking successfully or by some means not taking the ‘relationship’ severely.”
Finally leaving Love Is Blind throughout filming, Dang is looking for “important damages attributable to Defendants’ legal, tortious, and outrageous conduct.” Neither Dang nor Smith, who is known as as a defendant, are featured in Love Is Blind‘s fifth season, which launched September 22 on Netflix.
Created by Kinetic CEO Chris Coelen, actuality sequence places singles searching for love collectively and engaged, all earlier than really assembly in particular person.
On Friday, Kinetic Content material and Delirium TV rejected Dang’s assertions of what went down on Love Is Blind Season 5.
“We help and stand with victims of sexual assault, however Ms. Dang’s claims towards the producers are meritless,” the businesses mentioned in a joint assertion.
“We doc the impartial decisions of adults who volunteer to take part in a social experiment,’ they added. “Their journey just isn’t scripted, neither is it filmed across the clock. We’ve got no data or management over what happens in personal dwelling areas when not filming, and individuals might select to finish their journey at any time.
“We take any and all issues of our individuals severely and prioritize their well-being. Clearly, we can not handle undisclosed issues, and all through the time that Ms. Dang was concerned within the manufacturing of Love is Blind, she by no means knowledgeable the producers of any alleged wrongdoing of any type. Nor did she select to finish her participation within the experiment. As a substitute, Ms. Dang continued within the experiment for weeks after the time her legal professionals now declare an incident occurred. We deny and can vigorously defend the allegations towards us.”
Coelen additionally straight denied that the assault had occurred.
“She didn’t make any type of declare of assault of any type,” the previous UTA agent mentioned of Dang in an interview in the present day. “We might not proceed filming with somebody who was expressing that an incident of that kind had occurred.”
In an surroundings the place the behind-the-scenes actuality of unscripted TV is more and more within the highlight, Dang’s major lawyer Ben Allen rejected the stance from Kinetic Content material, Delirium TV and Coelen.
“The producers are throwing cash on the downside by spending an inordinate amount of cash on dropping authorized positions that do nothing however delay the events from having their day in courtroom,” the Lone Star state legal professional mentioned of his shopper’s case, first filed in August. “They misplaced on three distinct authorized points earlier than the trial courtroom after which filed three separate appeals to multiply the proceedings we’ve got to wade by way of earlier than lastly making an attempt this case.”
“However we’re assured that Ms. Dang’s place shall be vindicated as soon as we get there and are dedicated to seeing it by way of the entire manner,” he added. “We’ve got to carry the present producers accountable. We’ve got an moral obligation to our shopper to take action, but in addition really feel an ethical obligation to the subsequent technology of actuality present individuals.”
Dang’s lawsuit and the response from Coelen had been first reported by Folks.
