Andy Cohen’s past feud with Heidi Montag was brought back to life earlier this month when her husband, Spencer Pratt, slammed the talk show host.
During the Wednesday, January 29, episode of his SiriusXM show, Andy Cohen Live, Cohen, 56, explained that after he was “tagged” in comments about Pratt, 41, not wanting to appear on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen he reflected on why The Hills alum would be mad at him.
“I was like, ‘What happened? What did I do?’ I remembered that I had said … something on Watch What Happens Live years ago,” Cohen told his listeners, referring to his 2011 comments about Pratt’s wife.
At the time, Cohen had called Montag, now 38, “trash” and shut down the idea of her appearing on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. “I would sooner stab knives into my own eyes than see her on this network,” Cohen said, before apologizing on his radio show several days later.
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Pratt, however, hasn’t forgotten Cohen’s negative remarks. In fact, when fans suggested earlier this month that Montag should be on RHOBH, he replied via X, “No thanks.”
Pratt also wrote that he’d “rather sit in my burned house rubble” than go on Watch What Happens Live and chat with Cohen. (The couple lost their Los Angeles home to the recent Palisades Fire.)
Cohen, meanwhile, said on Wednesday that he “did apologize” for his comments about Montag “several years ago.”
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Looking back, the Bravo producer confessed he doesn’t like how he handled the incident.
“What I will say also is, that was mean. That was 14 years ago,” Cohen said. “What I really don’t like about it is referring to her as trash. I don’t like that at all. I am really sorry about that. So, I apologize again, I guess.”
Cohen’s cohost John Hill pointed out that “14 years is such a long time ago too” and things are very different now.
“There were things that we said or did on TV 14 years ago that we wouldn’t do now. It just was a different universe,” Cohen said in response, noting, “I’m not trying to justify it. I didn’t like how that sounded.”
He also clarified, “When I said, ‘I guess I’m apologizing again,’ what I meant was I did already apologize a few years ago on this broadcast.”
Cohen joked, “Maybe I’ll apologize for it every three years,” calling his apology “evergreen.”
Following their 2011 feud, Cohen didn’t have much to say about Montag and Pratt. However, when the idea of them appearing on RHOBH popped back up in September 2023, Cohen had thoughts.
“There was a thing in the news the other day where Heidi of ‘Spencer and Heidi’ was interviewed,” Cohen shared on Andy Cohen Live at the time. “They asked her, like, why she’s not on the Housewives or something and she said it’s because of me.”
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Cohen was referring to a joint interview that Pratt and Montag did with The Hollywood Reporter in which Pratt claimed Cohen must be a Lauren Conrad fan, which is why Montag wasn’t offered a Housewife role. (Conrad and Montag had a massive falling out in 2007 which was documented on The Hills.)
“I would think that he would appreciate the reality star that I am,” Montag said in her own defense. “I completely make sense to be on one of these shows.”
Cohen replied by telling his listeners that he doesn’t “know” Pratt or Montag. “I didn’t watch Laguna Beach, so I don’t even have much institutional knowledge of them,” he explained in September 2023.
Cohen claimed that it would be “weird” if the couple crossed over to a Bravo show because they are “identified” with another reality show and network.
