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

Andy Cohen is used to organizing gatherings in between Real Housewives actors, but Bravo fans might be surprised to hear about his reunion with the Housewife from way back.

PEOPLE have caught up Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen host at Bravo Fan Fest 2024 in Miami on Nov. 23, where he revealed that he and Carole Radziwill have squashed their beef.

“Carole and I recently became close again,” Cohen, 56, says of the former The Real Housewives of New York star.

“It’s a great feeling,” he adds. “Carole and I have known each other for years, before she was ever on Housewives — for many years. I think I knew her better outside Housewives than I have in Housewives. So it was definitely good to reconnect.”

Cohen did not offer any additional information about his time with Radziwill, but What remains the author tells PEOPLE that she’s glad she and Cohen were able to talk after six years.

“We both realized that our differences had to do with the high-pressure nature of the show and very little to do with our friendship leading up to it,” she says. “Andy and I are very much on the same page now and I’m happy about that.”

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Andy Cohen and Carole Radziwill.

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Fans will recall that Cohen and Radziwill had a famous falling out after RHONY season 10 reunion, which aired in September 2018.

Much of that reunion focused on the fractured friendship between Radziwill and Bethenny Frankel. During their climax, Cohen appeared to stand up for Frankel, prompting Radziwill to call Cohen a “full of s—” for suggesting she hit Frankel. At the gathering, she asked him: “Are you afraid of her too?”

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

But in Cohen’s eyes, he was just trying to keep the playing field level. “All I was doing was pointing out, ‘Yeah, you were both talking about each other,'” he said in one episode. Great game to play that month. “I didn’t say anyone was talking more to— or not. … Don’t deny that you never said anything bad about that person, because you both talked— about each other.”

“I thought that was very Trumpian of her and it really surprised me because what show is she watching?” he said.

That comment didn’t help matters, especially since Radziwill made her opinion pretty clear about the 2016 election. “Trumpian is what Andy did,” she tweeted. “[He] created a false equivalent. He said we both fought ‘all season long.’ Watch the clips. I was wearing the same clothes – a black T-shirt – [because] they were all the last episodes in interviews recorded two weeks before the reunion.”

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Andy Cohen and Carole Radwizill on ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’.

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Radziwill left RHONY after season 10, telling PEOPLE in July 2018 that “my original curiosity about reality TV has waned over the years and I’m focusing on TV and writing projects that are more suited to my more stable temperament.”

Later, in a separate post on her Instagram stories, she asked: “If you’re doing something that forces you to do things that go against your value system, would you leave regardless of the pay? It’s a tough decision.”

Once again, that comment caused a reaction, this time from Cohen. “Carole’s post basically implied that she left a really toxic situation. It really hit me the wrong way because I really felt like I changed her life,” he said in 2021. It’s Not All Diamonds and Roses: The Real Housewives Insider Story from People Who Lived It. “She’s not the person I knew.”

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

Andy Cohne and Carole Radziwill in June 2012.

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In the years since, the rumblings between Cohen and Radziwill have been quiet — even as Cohen’s friendship with Frankel seemed to unravel. But then, in June 2024, Cohen made headlines after calling out Radzwill for allegedly providing an anonymous quote New York magazine for a cover story they did on Cohen.

In the article, the source — identified as a former New York Housewife — reflects on the show’s trajectory during her time on it. “The show went from silly humor about middle-aged women getting drunk and deluding themselves about their status and having ridiculous, pointless fights, to Housewives investigating and investigating the opposition and making up fake stories and giving stories to each other and trying to get shot at each other “, she said.

She also addressed the point during Cohen’s baby shower where Lisa Rinna told others in attendance to “Dance for Andy and his baby. Dance like your fucking lives depend on it,” calling the moment “chilling.”

“It’s a dynamic,” she said. “Everybody’s just dancing to Andy Cohen.”

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Andy Cohen and Carole Radziwill on ‘Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen’.

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On his SiriusXM radio show, Cohen insisted the remarks came from Radziwill. “I know exactly [who it is]. It’s Carole Radziwill, there’s no doubt about it,” he said, when asked by his co-host John Hill who he suspects is the anonymous source. “There’s no question that it’s Carole. That’s the only bad quote, and it’s the only anonymous quote. But it was so weird. I said, like, ‘Carole said a lot of nasty things about me that she tweeted about and that got quoted.’ So I thought, ‘Why unofficially here?’ It’s so strange to me, I didn’t understand.”

Responding to the speculation about Xu, Radziwill wrote: “Hey Carole here 🙋🏼‍♀️ Someone can make a true remark and there’s always a short guy waiting to be offended. At this point why would any normal person use their name? They You are all so vindictive, which, I believe, is the point of the quote, which is also confirmed by Andy’s unpleasant answer 🙈.”

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