Still BFFs? Bethenny Frankel opened up about her friendship with Andy Cohen — and revealed the pair are nonetheless on good phrases regardless of the Bravo boss claiming she “trashed” the Real Housewives franchise.
“We totally are pals and we take beach walks and most of what we talk about on those walks is the Housewives, of this city, that city, this person, that person,” Frankel, 52, stated through the Tuesday, November 29, episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna. “I texted him when [my podcast came out] and he said, ‘Oh, fun. I’m glad to see you embrace the Housewives.”
Earlier this month, Frankel introduced she was launching a Housewives rewatch podcast, titled “Rewives,” in order that she might return to the franchise “on my terms.”
“For those of you who don’t understand why I did it, because I get that I walked away, I didn’t want to be a part of it, it wasn’t what I thought I should be doing at [that point in] my life, and I wasn’t proud of it,” the Naturally Thin writer wrote by way of her Instagram Story on November 13.
She continued: “This is my perspective, my story, my present, my expertise, versus a scenario the place we didn’t management the enhancing, and we didn’t management the method, and we didn’t management who we surrounded ourselves with and the journeys we went on, we weren’t in cost.
The Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host, 54, then responded to the information by telling Page Six he was “shocked” to listen to in regards to the podcast after Frankel beforehand dubbed the franchise a “toxic” setting.
On Tuesday, the Skinnygirl founder confirmed that Cohen’s preliminary response to her new enterprise was “definitely” as a result of she had beforehand shared that she was “glad” to longer be featured on the truth sequence.
“Which I am. But they’re not mutually exclusive,” the chef stated. “I’m glad I’m not there, but I do get the right to talk about it. I did it for a quarter of my life.”
While the New York native denied that she “trashed the Housewives,” she did admit to saying it turned “toxic for me,” and that the Bravo sequence had modified from what it “was in the beginning” on account of elevated “conflict.”
When talking completely to Us Weekly earlier this month in regards to the Real Housewives of New York City spinoff, RHONY: Legacy, Cohen revealed that Frankel isn’t “friends with any of the women anymore” and would seemingly not be showing on the present any time quickly.
“The great thing that I’ve loved about the legacy women is through the years they actually do hang out when the cameras aren’t rolling. They are really in touch,” he informed Us. “They overlap in each other’s lives. Bethenny now lives in Connecticut and she’s just kind of living her best life in her own universe. So, I’m not sure given how she feels about the show at this point, that it even makes any sense [for her to return].”
Despite their differing viewpoints, Frankel informed cohosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that she and Cohen are capable of separate enterprise from their friendship.
“We are both also in this business and we are also friends and we also share Housewives stuff where he was producing the show that I was on,” she stated. “So there’s all these different dynamics where I guess they overlap.”
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