Andy Cohen and Former Housewife Carole Radziwill Have 'Reconnected' After Years-Long Fallout (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Andy Cohen and Carole Radziwill at the ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ season 9 premiere party in April 2017.Photo:Robin Marchant/Getty

Robin Marchant/Getty

Andy Cohenis used to hosting reunions betweenReal Housewivescasts, but Bravo fans might be surprised to hear of a reunion he had with a Housewife from long ago.

PEOPLE caught up with theWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenhost at Bravo Fan Fest 2024 in Miami on Nov. 23, where he revealed that he andCarole Radziwillhad squashed their beef.

“Carole and I reconnected recently, actually,” Cohen, 56, says, of the formerReal Housewives of New York Citystar.

“It feels great,” he adds. “Carole and I knew each other for years, before she was ever on theHousewives— for many years. I think I’ve known her more outside of theHousewivesthan I have in theHousewives. So it was definitely good to reconnect.”

Cohen didn’t offer any further information about his time with Radziwill, but theWhat Remainsauthor tells PEOPLE that she was glad she and Cohen were able to talk after six years.

“We both came to understand that our disagreements had everything to do with the high-pressure nature of the show and very little to do with our friendship, which proceeded it,” she says. “Andy and I are very much on the same page now, and I’m happy about that.”

Andy Cohen and Carole Radziwill.Ivan Apfel/Bravo/Getty;  Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Ivan Apfel/Bravo/Getty;  Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Fans will remember Cohen and Radziwill had a famous fallout after theRHONYseason 10 reunion, which aired in September 2018.

Much of that reunion was centered on the fractured friendship between Radziwill andBethenny Frankel. During the height of their back and forth, Cohen appeared to stick up for Frankel, prompting Radziwill to call Cohen “full of s—” for suggesting she bashed Frankel. At the reunion she asked him, “Are you afraid of her too?”

“It was very clear to me — and then later on, I think, the audience — that he was supporting Bethenny in this way that I’ve never seen him at any other reunion do that,” Radziwill, 61, recalled on a July 2019 episode of SiriusXM’sThe Jenny McCarthy Show.

That comment didn’t help things, especially as Radziwill had made her thoughts about the 2016 election pretty clear. “Trumpian is what Andy did,” she tweeted. “[He] created a false equivalent. He said we both bashed each other ‘all season.’ Look at the clips. I was in the same outfit — a black top — [because] it was all the last episodes in interviews taped two weeks before the reunion.”

Andy Cohen and Carole Radwizill on ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

Later, in a separate post on her Instagram Stories, she asked, “If you were doing something that was forcing you to do things that went against your own value system would you walk away regardless of the pay? It’s a tough decision.”

Once again, that comment sparked a reaction, this time from Cohen. “Carole’s post basically implied that she was leaving a really toxic situation. It really rubbed me the wrong way because I really felt like I had changed her life,” he said, in 2021’sNot All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of the Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It.“She is not the person I used to know.”

But Radziwill once again clapped back online. “Just another man telling a woman she ought to be more grateful,“she wrote on X. “Housewives changed Andy Cohen’s life, not mine. And Bravo built a 100 million dollar franchise on the backs of women. Let’s not get it twisted.”

Andy Cohne and Carole Radziwill in June 2012.Slaven Vlasic/Getty

Slaven Vlasic/Getty

For years since then, the noise between Cohen and Radziwill stayed quiet — even whenCohen’s friendship with Frankel seemed to dissolve. But then, in June 2024, Cohen made headlines after he called out Radzwill for allegedly providingan anonymous quote toNew Yorkmagazine for a cover story they were doing on Cohen.

In the piece, the source — identified as a former New York City Housewife — reflected the trajectory of the series during her time on it. “The show went from silly humor about middle-aged women getting drunk and being delusional about their status and having funny, petty arguments, to Housewives investigating and doing opposition research and making up false story lines and leaking stories on each other and trying to get one another fired,” she said.

“That’s the dynamic,” she said. “Everyone just dances for Andy Cohen.”

Andy Cohen and Carole Radziwill on ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’.Peter Kramer/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

Peter Kramer/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

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