Bethenny Frankel and Andy Cohen Remain Close Friends Despite Her Trashing ‘Housewives’

Bethenny Frankel says her relationship with Andy Cohen is still great despite her starting the ReWives podcast and trash-talking the franchise. 

While appearing on Tuesday’s episode of TODAY with Hoda and Jenna, Bethenny spoke about her friendship with the Bravo executive. Frankel, 52, said that even though Andy, 54, is “probably a little annoyed” about her starting the ReWives podcast, there is no bad blood between them.

She said about Cohen, “We totally are pals and we take beach walks and most of what we talk about on those walks are the ‘Housewives,’ of this city, that city, this person, that person.” Bethenny has been friends with Andy since she was on The Real Housewives of New York from 2008 to 2019.

The Skinnygirl founder revealed that Andy reacted to her new podcast in a text message. “Oh fun, I’m glad to see you embracing the ‘Housewives,” Andy wrote.” The executive producer told Page Six after the news of the ReWives podcast that he was shocked to hear about Bethenny’s venture after saying the show was toxic to her for years.

During the Tuesday interview, Frankel defended her earlier remarks. “I didn’t really trash the ‘Housewives.’ I said that it was toxic for me at that point. I think it is a different show than what it was in the beginning. It’s evolved into something different, more big, more shiny, more dramatic than what we started with … more conflict.”

Bethenny continued to say, “I’ve said that I’m glad that I’m not there — which I am, but they’re not mutually exclusive. I’m glad that I’m not there [but] I also do get the right to talk about it because I did it for a quarter of my life.” She also said her relationship with Andy isn’t as easy as people think and is rather more complicated. “It’s just also that 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. So there’s all these different dynamics where I guess they overlap.” 

Watch Bethenny’s clip below!

Carole Radziwill, who was on The Real Housewives of New York from 2012 to 2018, slammed Bethenny for starting the podcast. She began by saying, “Oh Lordy..how original. But she did build her brand by trashing & mocking women specifically the HWs & Betheny always returns to what she does best. I mean right out the gate she trash talks the other HW podcasts. Lol. Good luck to her. Some things will never change.”

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