- Kathy Griffin has given a surprising update on her lengthy feud with Andy Cohen.
- Griffin previously told EW she felt that Cohen and Bravo threw her “away like a piece of trash.”
- The comedian had a falling out with Bravo following several comedy specials and her Emmy-winning Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List series.
Emmy-winning comedian Kathy Griffin and Bravo personality Andy Cohen’s years-long feud might’ve just downgraded from an A-list clash to a B-list misdemeanor.
The My Life on the D-List star and stand-up comic recently offered a surprising update on her feud with Cohen, after the Watch What Happens Live host responded to a fan question about his relationship with Griffin at BravoCon.
“Well, I mean, look, I think never say never about anyone. Kathy and I emailed the other day, so….” Cohen said after an inquiry about the potential to make amends with her, as Griffin has long accused him of distancing himself from her amid the fallout to her notorious 2017 photograph in which she held up a Donald Trump mask covered in fake blood — a move that led to a Department of Justice probe.
“My former nemesis, Andy Cohen, has been talking about me publicly at BravoCon,” Griffin said in a new Instagram video (below). “Someone asked him if he’d ever make up with me, and he said, ‘Never say never,’ and he emailed me this long email and it was definitely interesting.”
Kathy Griffin and Andy Cohen.
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Griffin added in the clip that she “emailed him back right away,” but that she doesn’t “know what’s going to happen there” in the future.
“I have a lot of feelings about that because I feel hurt in a lot of ways that I don’t think he quite understands, but I appreciate that he said, ‘Never say never,’ because I did love working at Bravo,” the 65-year-old continued. “And I would like to do a special at Bravo again, or a series. Never say never!”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Cohen at Bravo for a response.
In a 2024 interview with EW, Griffin elaborated on her frustrations with Cohen and former friend Anderson Cooper, whom she also said distanced himself from her following the Trump mask photo incident.
“Why doesn’t anyone ask Andy Cohen these questions? Why am I always having to put my feet to the fire? I’m always asked about Anderson and Andy. That was done to me. I don’t have an answer,” she stressed when asked about why the My Life on the D-List show concluded in 2010.
She said she felt like she was thrown “away like a piece of trash” over the ordeal.
“Nobody goes up to Anderson and goes, ‘How could you have done that to Kathy?’ Nobody goes up to Andy and goes, ‘Andy, how could you do that to one of the stars of your network?'” Griffin said. “Nobody asks them, ever.”
Cooper has no involvement with Bravo, though he did replace her as the cohost (alongside Cohen) of CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve Live special in the aftermath of the Trump scandal.
Griffin previously fronted 18 stand-up specials that aired on Bravo between 2004 and 2013, and even headlined her own late-night talk show, Kathy, which also ended on the network in 2013.
Last year, Griffin maintained that she’s received “no apologies” from her former pals.
“Not one,” she added. “Not from one single person. Not my friends who deserted me, not industry people, not people I’ve known for years and showed up to every one of their charity events or did stand-up for free.”
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Though it hasn’t aired a new episode in 15 years, My Life on the D-List returned to stream on the NBC-owned Peacock platform in 2024.
“All I can do is be honest and say it hurts. It hurts that I’m not doing specials there. It hurts that they never let me do a spinoff with my mom and dad in the early years of the D-List. It hurts that they don’t want to do a D-List 2.0,” she told EW of the show at the time.
Watch Griffin discuss an update on her feud with Cohen above.
