Lisa Rinna and Andy Cohen seemingly settled their differences after she called The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills a sinking ship, but she still has some lingering thoughts about their last interaction.
The RHOBH alum, 61, explained the situation to her husband, Harry Hamlin, during the Friday, March 21, episode of their “Let’s Not Talk About the Husband” podcast. According to Rinna, it was her former costar Erika Jayne who first alerted her that her Titanic comments might be a problem. (Rinna went to see the Pretty Mess author, 53, in Chicago on Broadway the night before taping Andy Cohen Live.)
“I didn’t even remember I’d said that,” Rinna claimed. “I didn’t really remember saying this, it was just something I threw out. Like, I didn’t clock it.”
When Rinna arrived to record Cohen’s SiriusXM radio show, she immediately tried to apologize for her remarks.
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“First thing I say to him: ‘Gosh, you know what? Erika told me that you didn’t like that I said that about the Titanic, and hey, if I hurt your feelings, I’m sorry,’” she recalled. “And he giggles and he goes, ‘Wait, wait, we’re gonna talk about this on the radio.’”
After Hamlin, 73, confirmed that Rinna’s initial apology wasn’t taped, she explained that she regressed to a pattern of behavior with Cohen, 56, that she thought she’d moved past.
“What happened to me, I believe is, the minute I walked into that space, I [fell] into a trope of Housewife to Big Daddy,” she told Hamlin. “I fall back into a role that I played, I believe, for eight years where I give my power to Andy Cohen, who is my boss. Just dynamically, that is where I went right back to. Almost like a little girl going back to the role she plays in her family.”
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During the radio show, Rinna initially agreed that she “misused” her words, but she eventually admitted that she meant what she said.
“I meant to say Titanic, and I said it and I’m sorry I hurt your feelings. Let’s move on,” she told Cohen in February.
On her podcast, Rinna said she now feels she only expressed misgivings to Cohen because of how he still makes her feel as her former boss.
“When he starts to talk to me about it, all I really needed to say was, ‘Yeah, so? That’s my opinion. And I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings, but that’s my opinion,’” she explained. “Really, that’s all I needed to say. I didn’t need to tap dance and hem and haw and leak all over the place. … And then I finally kind of got myself back and I went, ‘Eh, no, I’m not gonna take that back. It’s the Titanic, I said it.’”
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Rinna said she “had a good time” with Cohen on the radio show, but she “didn’t feel good” about how she reacted in the moment.
“I wouldn’t have said it if I didn’t agree in some way. But what I really realized and what I’m trying to say is: Think about in life when you go back into situations that maybe either held trauma or you have a reaction in some way,” she continued. “I was able to clock it and look at my reaction in the moment and how I really took on a different role than I am [in] right now. Two and a half years later, I’m in a different place, but I reverted back to that old place.”
Rinna announced her departure from RHOBH in January 2023 after eight seasons on the long-running Bravo show. “This is the longest job I have held in my 35-year career and I am grateful to everyone at Bravo and all those involved in the series,” she told Us Weekly in a statement at the time. “It has been a fun 8-year run and I am excited for what is to come!’”
