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Former ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Star Denies Claims She Called Actress Who Plays Olivia Benson A ‘Total B***h’

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Oop&excl; Could there have been some real-life drama on the immensely popular crime show&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Law &amp&semi; Order&colon; SVU”&quest;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Actress Diane Neal&comma; who played ADA Casey Novak for seven seasons on the show&comma; allegedly called Mariska Hargitay&comma; the actress who plays Olivia Benson&comma; a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;total b&ast;&ast;&ast;h&period;” <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagesix&period;com&sol;2019&sol;11&sol;21&sol;diane-neal-allegedly-calls-former-law-order-svu-co-star-mariska-hargitay-a-total-bitch&sol;">Page Six<&sol;a> initially reported this tea was spilled in new court documents in which she also allegedly called the rest of her co-stars &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;awful people&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In fact&comma; the only person she allegedly described as pleasant to work with was Ice-T&comma; the lawsuit claims&period; Neal&comma; who made a bid for Congress&comma; allegedly made the comments to her former campaign manager Rachael Himsel&comma; who allegedly wrote them down in an email to an unnamed source&period; The email is an exhibit in a lawsuit by Neal’s ex-boyfriend&comma; whom she accused of physically and sexually abusing her&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Neal has denied making those comments about her SVU castmates to Page Six&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mariska and I were not the closest&comma; but that doesn’t mean we have any animosity towards each other&comma; we’re still very supportive of each other&comma;” Neal said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She’s a great mom&comma; she’s great as Benson&comma; she’s doing great charity work&period; I have never talked about the cast members like this&comma; it’s salacious and untrue&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Neal also said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There is no truth to this at all&period; Most of the people I’ve worked with are amazing&comma; I love almost everyone I’ve ever worked with&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The whole lawsuit between Neal and her ex is messy and getting worse&period; In court documents&comma; her ex said he actually taped Neal threatening to shoot him and hung their dog Charlie on Nov&period; 7&comma; 2017&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In the tape&comma; Neal allegedly told Ben&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am going to kill you or I am going to sue the f–k out of you&period; I am going to make your life as miserable as you have made mine&period; The difference is&comma; unlike me&comma; you have nothing to lose&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Whew&comma; sounds like it’s getting real but I’m sure hard-core Benson fans would appreciate it if Neal and her ex leave Hargitay out of this one&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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