Andy Cohen apologized this week for 2011 comments he made about Heidi Montag, acknowledging the 14-year-old incident “was mean.”
Cohen mentioned during a recent episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live that he became aware of a controversy when Pratt — who married Montag in 2008 — wrote on social media he would never be a guest on Watch What Happens Live because Cohen “said he would rather scratch his eyes out then [sic] watch my wife.”
In the 2011 clip Pratt was referencing, Cohen called Montag “trash” when discussing her potentially joining Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. He said, “I would sooner stab knives into my own eyes than see her on this network,” and then apologized a few days later.
“I realized that I did apologize for this on Andy Cohen Live several years ago,” Cohen said to John Hill on the podcast this week. “I apologized, so what I will say also is that was mean. That was 14 years ago, and what I really don’t like about it is referring to her as trash. That is, I do not, that makes me, I don’t like that at all and I’m really sorry about that, so I apologize again, I guess.”
Hill went on to tell Cohen that “I don’t know, once is enough. That was a very heartfelt apology, what you just said. That was taking ownership. That was taking accountability. You’re genuinely sorry.”
Cohen thanked Hill for his response and said, “By the way, there were things that we said and did on TV 14 years ago that we wouldn’t do now. It just was a different universe but that’s not, I’m not trying to justify it.”
Hill further clarified Cohen’s perspective with his own comment: “That’s the annoying thing, is people say, ‘Back in the old days when we could say the R word.’ It’s not saying that. We’ve learned some lessons and that’s good.”
Cohen finished the conversation with a final thought. “When I said, ‘I guess I’m apologizing again,’ what I meant was I did already apologize a few years ago on this broadcast, so I guess maybe this isn’t evergreen. Maybe I’ll apologize for it every three years.”
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