Jeff Lewis criticized Sonja Morgan for allegedly being intoxicated during the taping of the 15th anniversary of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”
“I was very annoyed by Sonja. They did a lot of work to edit her obnoxious, drunk behavior, but what you see was 20 times worse,” he said on Sirius XM’s “Jeff Lewis Live.”
“She never stopped talking. She was belligerent, rude, disrespectful, and confrontational. She came for me during the break. I was completely turned off by her behavior.”
Lewis, 54, claimed Morgan, 60, confronted him during a commercial break, saying, “I only hate one other person more than you,” leaving him confused about her anger.
“She accused me of something I don’t recall doing,” the “Flipping Out” alum added. “I don’t think it was something that I did do.”
Lewis’ co-host noted that Morgan could be heard shouting throughout the episode once the Bravolebs were back on air.
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In one segment, Lewis had a minor confrontation with Teresa Giudice, and the “Real Housewives of New York City” alum told him, “Get on your knees.”
During the “After Show” segment, Morgan interrupted several times, speaking in slurred speech.
In one awkward moment, she said she wouldn’t participate in Luann de Lesseps’ “Marry, F–k, Kill” game because she would “f–k Luann, won’t f–k Dorinda [Medley] because Dorinda’s, like, a Catholic girl with big panties and Ramona [Singer] would be incest.”
Other guests, including several “Housewives,” Lewis, and Jerry O’Connell, were silent or shocked.
A source told Page Six that Morgan “showed up already intoxicated” to the shoot and was served water once her condition became apparent.
Around the three-minute, 16-second mark of the “After Show,” Morgan held up a shot glass and angrily told de Lesseps, “This is water!”
Lewis claimed on his Sirius XM show that after the taping, Morgan confronted him backstage and execs “kind of pulled her away from me.”
A source told Page Six Morgan was “put in a car” to her next destination and escorted out of the Soho studio.
Lewis added on “Jeff Lewis Live,” “I watched her behavior and thought, ‘This has got to affect your career.’ How can this not affect your career?”
He claimed he heard a “rumor” that Morgan and de Lesseps’ show “Crappie Lake” was not renewed because of Morgan’s drunken antics.
A production source denied to Page Six that “Crappie Lake,” which aired for one season, was canceled due to Morgan’s behavior. Bravo has not yet announced the show’s status.
Lewis concluded, “There is a point where it’s not funny anymore, and I think she has to clean up her act.”
Reps for Morgan and Bravo did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
Morgan’s boozy behavior has been a hot topic before. In 2018, Page Six reported she was “wasted and humping people” at a downtown New York bar.
Morgan called the claims “exaggerated” and said, “I was having fun.”
In July 2021, a “RHONY” episode showed de Lesseps, Singer, and Leah McSweeney trying to stage an intervention for Morgan, who denied having a problem.
She told her castmates, “I never drink alone. I don’t drink at home. I don’t drink on dates. I don’t socialize like that.”
Morgan added in a confessional, “Chill out. I think we’ll be OK. I’m not going to explain myself anymore.”
