Bethenny Frankel is providing an replace on the place she stands with Andy Cohen amid her ongoing requires actuality stars to begin a union — and her ongoing claims towards Bravo.
As the Real Housewives of New York City alum, 52, additionally denied the claims Lisa Vanderpump, 62, made in regards to the supposed $360,000 wage of former Vanderpump Rules star Raquel Leviss, 28, Bethenny revealed if she’s spoken to Andy, 55, hinted at a future mission with Raquel, and addressed the backlash she’s gotten for her interview with the ex-reality star.
“What a whirlwind,” Bethenny started on the August 21 episode of her Just B With Bethenny podcast. “Interviewing Rachel, going viral, breaking the internet, so many rumors, so many press articles and it’s unsettling to be honest. She’s gotten a lot of hate from the world and I’m taking on a lot of that hate now.”
According to Bethenny, she’s “proud” of herself for not caring in regards to the negativity she’s confronted — and for being on the “right side of history.”
“People I really respect in the entertainment industry and politics, government, business, and people I just interact with on a day to day are all saying to me, ‘You’re doing the right thing,’” she revealed. “I’m totally on the right side of history. I’ve had five documentarians reach out to me [who] want to do documentaries … I struck a cord and a nerve.”
As for folks saying she shouldn’t be main this cost, Bethenny stated she would love somebody to nominate themselves to take over.
“Does anyone think I thought a couple weeks ago, ‘Let me f*cking start a sh*t-storm, make tons of enemies, burn bridges that I didn’t need to burn and be the leader of a charge, have meetings that I didn’t need to have, having meetings with SAG and AFTRA and with lawyers and all these different people?’” she requested. “I could be surfing so if somebody else wants to lead the charge, have at it.”
Continuing on in regards to the hate she’s gotten for her interview with Raquel, which many imagine solely additional “exploited” the Pump Rules alum, Bethenny joked that she not wants a publicist.
“I’ve got all these hate sites. Keep going. I like it. People have a hard time with that because then where are you gonna go? I don’t give a sh*t. It’s engagement,” she famous.
Although Raquel was reportedly not paid for her three-part interview on Bethenny’s podcast, Bethenny hinted that she’ll group up along with her on an upcoming mission or tasks (Raquel beforehand shared plans to begin a podcast).
“Whether I paid her or not, how do you know what I did? How do you know what I’m doing with her? Nobody knows what I’m really doing but I love the speculation,” she teased. “We’re number one worldwide. We’re having a conversation with a woman who hasn’t been able to get a conversation out, unedited.”
Following the discharge of her podcast episodes final month, Lisa spoke out towards Bethenny’s suggestion that her interns made greater than Raquel did on Pump Rules.
“‘Scandoval‘ was pushed through the PR machine and this particular incident triggered people more and everybody did make a lot of money and Rachel did not,” Bethenny alleged, giving a nod to the storyline surrounding Raquel’s affair with Tom Sandoval, 40. “And the number out there, saying she made several hundred thousand dollars for the season is false, completely false.”
As Bethenny famous, the producer of Pump Rules stated they have been going to cancel the present earlier than “Scandoval” saved it. So to assume that Raquel, who was in her third season as a full-time forged member, can be given $360,000 to seem on a failing present “just wouldn’t happen.”
In the weeks since she went public along with her unionization calls, Bethenny has been accused of retaliating towards Bravo after a present she pitched was shelved. However, in accordance to Bethenny, she was by no means in talks with Bravo in regard to the potential sequence.
“I was talking to a production company,” she clarified. “I spoke to Andy one time but Andy wasn’t even working on this project and I spoke to a production company and Bravo was the most logical place that this project would live … [but I] decided several months ago that I didn’t want to do the show.”
Looking again, Bethenny stated that as a result of she heard a couple of lawsuit towards the manufacturing firm that she was doing the present with, which accused the corporate of stealing somebody from Married to Medicine‘s present, she not wished to transfer ahead. In addition, she wished to flip her focus to social media as a result of it permits her extra management over the content material she shares.
“I just felt a little sketch. It wasn’t a big deal. So I walked away from that deal,” she added.
As for her relationship with Andy, Bethenny confirmed they’ve not spoken.
“Some people say to me, ‘Oh wow, is Andy mad you’re doing this? Have you spoken to him?’ And I say, ‘I have not but I’m sure he is.’ [But] this is not a target on Andy. This is not a target on Bravo. This is about a systemic issue in the entertainment industry,” she shared.
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