“Love Is Blind” Season 2 star Jeremy Hartwell filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the series’ producers, alleging that the cast was mistreated while filming the show.

“They intentionally underpaid the cast members, deprived them of food, water and sleep, plied them with booze and cut off their access to personal contacts and most of the outside world. This made cast members hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making,” Hartwell’s attorney, Chantal Payton of Payton Employment Law, PC, of Los Angeles, alleged Wednesday in a statement provided to Page Six.

“The contracts required contestants to agree that if they left the show before filming was done, they would be penalized by being required to pay $50,000 in ‘liquidated damages.’ With that being 50 times what some of the cast members would earn during the entire time that they worked, this certainly had the potential to instill fear in the cast and enable production to exert even further control.”

According to Hartwell’s legal team, his lawsuit serves as “a proposed class action on behalf of all participants in ‘Love Is Blind’ and other non-scripted productions” created by Kinetic Content from 2018 to 2022.

In court documents obtained by Page Six, Hartwell, 36, alleged that “the only drinks that [the show] regularly provided to the cast were alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks and mixers.”

The Chicago native further claimed that “hydrating drinks such as water were strictly...

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