We didn’t know R. Kelly was directing the new season of The Real World….The latest installment of MTV’s longest-running reality drama hasn’t even aired yet, and already police have been called in to investigate an alleged incident involving two cast members from The Real World: New Orleans.
Up-and-coming reality personality Ryan Leslie — a hairstylist from Arizona — contacted authorities in the Big Easy this week, alleging one of his roommates on the show, Preston Roberson-Charles, urinated on his toothbrush and used it to scrub a toilet.
According to a police report obtained by local paper The Times-Picayune, Ryan says he had to go to the emergency room after falling ill following the alleged toothbrush debacle. A spokesperson for the New Orleans Police Department told the newspaper that no charges have been filed.
“I got into a argument with my roomate (sic) preston,” Ryan wrote in his handwritten statement to the police. “In the argument preston stated that he was going to do something to my belongings. Preston later came in my room and took my tooth brush (sic) off the counter and scrubbed the inside of the toilet and urinated on my toothbrush. I wasn’t aware of this and continued to use my toothbrush..I soon started to get a sore throat and began to get a fever,” Leslie’s statement continued.
“It was extremly (sic) painful and only got worst (sic). I went to urgent care and was tested for strep and mono both came back negative but I was diagnosed with a viral infection.”
The next season of The Real World is being shot at a home owned by Los Angeles Clippers star Baron Davis. The show is expected to air later this year. The second time MTV has ventured to New Orleans for a season of The Real World, which last hit the Big Easy in 2000.