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Are You the One? star Gianna Hammer claims MTV producers ‘drugged her and covered up sex assault by fellow cast member’

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MTV’s Gianna Hammer has alleged that producers of the MTV reality-competition show gave her a pill to take while she was drunk and then covered up that she was sexually assaulted.

The 25-year-old has appeared on TikTok to reveal her alleged ordeal, which happened while shooting Season 5 of Are You the One? in the fall of 2016.

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MTV’s Gianna Hammer revealed on TikTok she had been sexually assaulted while filming the reality TV show[/caption]
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The incident allegedly happened four years ago[/caption]

In a video she posted, she said: “Four years ago while filming Are You the One I was drugged and sexually assaulted.”

She explained how during filming she was put on a low dosage of the antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication Zoloft, and warned by her doctor to never take the pills while drinking or the effects of alcohol would be heightened. 

Hammer says she normally took it right before bed at night.

But during filming in the Dominican Republic, she claims the medication was administered to her first thing in the morning so it would not affect her if she drank later on.

Hammer said: “Then one night I was super-super drunk like I was like trashed.”

In an interview with Daily Beast she then explained how she had a row with one of the male cast members.

She said: “That’s when the producers took me away into our confessional room.”

Here she claims three producers said she needed to calm down and that they were going to give her one of her medications. 

I spent all these years not saying anything while it aired and while it was still fresh in everyone’s minds, because I was scared

Gianna Hammer, ex-Are You the One? contestant

She said: “I know that my castmates said that I kept telling them, ‘I’m not supposed to do this when I’m drinking. I’m not supposed to do this when I’m drinking.’ 

“They still said it was OK, they said it wasn’t a high enough dosage or something. So, I took it.”

That was the last thing she remembered, she said. When she awoke the next morning, she immediately sensed something was not right.

According to Hammer, she was walked over to the media tent where she was sat down at a table with three of the main producers.

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Gianna Hammer said she had been scared to speak out before now[/caption]

Hammer says she recalled that she was given a pill by producers, which she claims they initially denied but later admitted they gave it to her to try to calm her down. 

Then she claims she was told that she had got into bed with a male cast member and other contestants heard her saying “no” to the co-star. 

Later she alleges that she was then given paperwork to sign, stipulating that she could not talk about the incident during filming, something Lighthearted Entertainment has denied.

In return, she claimed she was told the footage from that night would never be aired.

She told the Daily Beast: “I spent all these years not saying anything while it aired and while it was still fresh in everyone’s minds, because I was scared.

“I guess they really don’t care that much.”

Hammer was later able to piece together some fragments of the night from some of her other cast members, claiming she found out that producers were not entirely honest about what happened.

The Daily Beast spoke with five other cast members on the record who all confirmed parts of Hammer’s story.

Hammer stressed she was not looking for much, just acknowledgment of what happened and an apology.

The Sun contacted Lighthearted Entertainment for a comment on the allegations and is awaiting its reply.

But it told the Beast it welcomed an investigation and “will cooperate with full transparency”.

It said: “We are confident that any review will confirm the safety procotols [sic] that we have long had in place on the sets of Are You The One?

“We deny the allegations made by the former contestant; throughout the eight seasons of the show, no contestant has reported an incident of sexual assault to Lighthearted.”

The Sun has contacted MTV and is awaiting a reply. 

A statement iMTV gave to the Daily Beast read: “We take these issues very seriously and have paused production/casting to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations, the third party production company and further review our internal safety protocols.”

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