Kathy Griffin is sharing her side of the story after Andy Cohen recently revealed that they exchanged emails for the first time in years.
“He wrote me this long email at 10 at night and half of it was sort of nice,” Griffin, 65, apparently said during her stand-up show in Anaheim on Saturday, November 22. “I think he vetted it with lawyers actually. It read like … he knows I’m going to eventually read it on stage.”
Griffin told the crowd this was her first contact with Cohen, 57, in eight years.
“He didn’t really apologize, but he kind of did a ‘sorry, not sorry.’ The tenor was sort of civil,” Griffin added, noting that Cohen is a “powerful guy” and explaining that she didn’t “really need to be in any more beefs” publicly.
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Griffin and Cohen’s years-long feud stems back to 2017. When she was fired from her CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live special hosting gig, Cohen took over. The Watch What Happens Live host was later asked by TMZ about Griffin, and he responded, “Who? I don’t know her.”
While Cohen’s quip appeared to be him quoting a famous Mariah Carey line, Griffin did not appreciate the joke.
“Even when it’s on tape, there are doubters? He is NOT kidding w paps,” Griffin claimed in a 2017 social media post. “Was my boss for 10 years. Treated me like a dog. Deeply misogynistic.”
Cohen further explained his conversation with TMZ during his SiriusXM radio show.
“Usually with TMZ, you’re walking and you say your thing and you get in your car. Well, my driver parked on the second level of the parking lot. So we’re standing there all that time waiting for the elevator, and that’s why it kept going on and on,” Cohen explained. “And I didn’t really know how to pivot in the conversation. Like, ‘What, what, I don’t know!’ So I failed my Mariah impression.”
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Griffin worked alongside Cohen when her Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List reality show aired for six seasons on Bravo from 2005 to 2010. She also had several stand-up specials air on the network.
“I wish I were back at Bravo,” Griffin told the crowd on Saturday. “It was a fun place to work and it was a great place to do specials and all that stuff.”
Cohen revealed that he had reached out to Griffin during the Ask Andy panel at BravoCon on November 14. A fan asked Cohen if he would rather reconcile with Nene Leakes, Bethenny Frankel or Griffin. Cohen revealed that he and Griffin were emailing “the other day,” during his panel.
Griffin said on Saturday that she “wrote him back very quickly” after receiving Cohen’s email.
“I was kind of emotional,” she added. “I’m like, hold on girl!”
Griffin noted that “maybe” there’s a way for her and Cohen to move forward.
“You emailed me for the first time in eight years after f***ing doing me dirty and taking my job on New Year’s Eve and firing me from Bravo, but OK,” she added. “Like, I don’t actually want to have a beef, but that did hurt. And that whole experience did hurt. But I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
