Andy Cohen Apologizes to Garcelle Beauvais After ‘RHOBH’ Reunion

Making amends. Andy Cohen issued a public apology after receiving backlash for his response to Garcelle Beauvais and Lisa Rinna‘s feud on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion.

“I need to really sincerely apologize not only for diverting the topic but for not returning — even worse — to the serious conversation that was at hand,” Cohen, 54, mentioned throughout SiriusXM’s Radio Andy present on Monday, October 24. “I have deep admiration for Garcelle.”

The Bravo producer defined he had a “really good, productive conversation” with Beauvais, 55, after the second a part of the season 12 reunion particular aired.

“I should have been more in tune with her feelings,” he added, earlier than addressing the web response to the phase. “I just wanted to say that because I’ve been logging in and I get.”

During the RHOBH reunion, which aired half two on Thursday, October 20, Rinna, 59, revealed she was the one who threw Beauvais’ memoir, Love Me as I Am, into the trash. Their costar Erika Jayne beforehand took credit score after posting a photograph of the ebook on social media.

“I have to be honest — I’m the one that tossed Garcelle’s book in the trash,” the previous cleaning soap star mentioned on the time. “Garcelle and I had a handshake agreement the kids were off limits. And so, about a year and a half later, she put my daughter Amelia [Hamlin] in her book in not a positive light, in a negative light. And that’s what I did.”

The mannequin, for her half, identified that she addressed Rinna’s criticism off display screen. “I said, ‘What can we do? It’s a week before the book actually comes out, what can we do?’” Beauvais recalled. “And so we all came up with a second edition of the book, we will take it out as well as the audio and that’s what we did.”

Cohen shortly modified the topic to query why Rinna seemingly didn’t recycle the gadgets in her waste bin. In response, followers known as out the host for not supporting the Haiti native.

Later within the episode, Cohen out the Melrose Place alum within the scorching seat for her “disastrous” habits on social media.

“Lisa, I have spoken to you about this privately many times. You make so much trouble for yourself. You post something and then you wind up having to delete it,” the Missouri native mentioned. “A week or two ago, you posted, ‘I’m never posting about the Housewives of Beverly Hills — and then yesterday, you’re posting up a storm about the reunion and what’s to come and [posting] text messages. … It gives me anxiety. You post some s—t and I’m like, ‘What is she doing?’ Like blaming production for things.”

Rinna promised she would do higher after admitting she received a “dopamine high” from posting on Instagram. “I try to just express myself and I do. I don’t necessarily think that I’m doing something when I first do it that’s bad. Not always,” she added. “And then sometimes I’m like, ‘F—k it.’ … I am a work in progress when it comes to that and I’m going to get better. I will.”