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Kathy Griffin shares the current situation with her “former nemesis” Andy Cohen.
Comedian Cohen, 65, shared a video to Instagram on Tuesday, November 25, in which he responded to Cohen’s recent comments about him at BravoCon 2025. During a convention in Las Vegas, Mr. Cohen, 57, was asked if he had ever “made up” with Mr. Griffin before replying, “I actually texted him the other day.”
Now, Griffin is revealing some details behind the “long email” he received from the Watch What Happens Live host.
“It was definitely interesting,” Griffin said. “And I immediately emailed him back. I don’t know what’s going to happen there, but I have a lot of feelings about it because I feel hurt in a lot of ways, and I don’t think he fully understands that.”
She added of his comments at BravoCon, “But I appreciate that he said ‘never say never.'” Because I loved working at Bravo and I would love to do some specials or series or whatever for Bravo again. And never say never. ”
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Bravo aired more than a dozen of Griffin’s stand-up specials from 2004 to 2013, and he also hosted the late-night talk show “Cassie” on the network from 2012 to 2013. Bravo specifically placed Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-list for five years before it was canceled in 2010.
Griffin has long been vocal about his feud with Cohen since 2017. The Bravo boss appeared on CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with friend Anderson Cooper after Griffin was dropped from the special. She missed the performance after receiving criticism for posing with Donald Trump’s face covered in ketchup to resemble blood.
In October 2017, Cohen joked to TMZ that he had no idea who Griffin was when asked about New Year’s news. Mr. Griffin fired back at Mr. Cohen regarding X with a 17-minute YouTube video. Cohen later explained on WWHL that he was quoting Mariah Carey in an exchange with TMZ.
Ultimately, he told Howard Stern in May 2018 that he was moving on. “I got the CNN job. I’ve been on Bravo all this time. I get that,” Cohen told Stern on SiriusXM’s show. “So hate me. If it makes you happy and brings you peace, I’ll be that person for you. I’m not going to take it on. I’m at peace. I’m a lover, not a fighter.”
The following year, Griffin told PEOPLE that Cohen was “one of the worst bosses I’ve ever had.” Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2024, she also expressed frustration with both Cohen and Anderson Cooper, who distanced themselves from them after the Trump photo controversy.
“Why doesn’t anyone ask Andy Cohen these questions? Why do I always have to put my foot in the fire? I get asked about Anderson and Andy all the time. That’s what’s been done to me. I don’t have an answer,” she said.
Griffin recently spoke with PEOPLE at Out Magazine’s Out100 party, where she reflected on her “very exciting” layoff and how her outlook on life and career has changed since 2017.
“I think it’s about accepting that people don’t change,” she says. “I think I’ve spent a lot of my life, both romantically and career-wise, thinking that someone would change or that I might be able to skew someone’s perspective. And now, believe it or not, I have quite a few Trumper friends.”
“I have friends who didn’t vote because they didn’t like either candidate,” she added. “But I think it’s important to be around people who have different opinions and we can get along. So there’s an understanding. And there are some Trumpers who really turn me on because of the photo of Trump’s face. So I still get conflicted about that photo and get complimented about that photo. But I understand both.”
