Carole Radziwill Addresses RHONY Return Speculation Head On
Carole Radziwill’s surprise reunion with Luann de Lesseps and Andy Cohen has Bravo fans buzzing.
The reunion happened during a joint appearance on “Andy Cohen Live,” where the conversation turned nostalgic — and surprisingly candid. Radziwill also opened up about what really sparked those RHONY return rumors and where things now stand with Bravo.
The Former Co-Stars Reflect on Their RHONY Feud
Radziwill and de Lesseps hadn’t shared a couch since the “RHONY” season 10 reunion in 2018, and both admitted the experience was long overdue. “We haven’t sat on a couch together since 2018,” Radziwill said. “Like a reunion couch … with Andy.”
Cohen seemed amused by the full-circle moment. “People will have to believe this to see it,” he joked. “It’s epic. By the way, sitting here with the two of you, I can’t even remember what your drama was about.”
De Lesseps didn’t hesitate to remind him. “It was really kind of around Bethenny [Frankel] at the time,” she said.
“Yeah,” Radziwill agreed before de Lesseps added with a smirk, “She’s just evil.”
Radziwill laughed and said, “Yeah, she created a lot of tension. But it was good for the show for a time, and then it wasn’t.”
De Lesseps nodded in agreement. “There’s a certain darkness about the show that can change the flavor,” she said.
Looking back, Radziwill remembered how much lighter the earlier years of “RHONY” felt. “I remember laughing so much in the beginning,” she said. “Season five, six, seven, eight — I thought it was so fun. You guys were so funny.”
Carole Radziwill Clears Up RHONY Return Speculation
Radziwill’s reappearance on Bravo led fans to speculate that she might be coming back full-time, but the journalist made it clear that’s not happening. During the “Take Me Off Speaker” podcast, she addressed the rumors head-on.
“I’m so out of that world. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be on it again,” she said. “No one has called me, and I can’t imagine doing it.”
Radziwill explained that the buzz started after she appeared on “Watch What Happens Live” to promote her new CNN documentary about John F. Kennedy Jr. and George magazine. “One of the things they wanted me to do was ‘Watch What Happens Live,’” she shared. “After that, I got so many messages like, ‘Oh my god, this means you’re coming back to RHONY!’ And I was like, ‘RHONY doesn’t even exist anymore.’”
Andy Cohen Opens Up About Reconnecting With Carole Radziwill
Cohen also used his SiriusXM show to share what it was like to reunite with Radziwill after years of tension. “She and I had a big kind of falling out. She asked me to never speak to her again, and we kind of went at each other publicly for years,” he revealed. “We really kind of came to a very positive place.”
Radziwill confirmed their reconciliation in an Instagram Story, posting a clip from Cohen’s radio show with her own caption: “True story… we hadn’t spoken or even bumped into each other in nearly seven years! After another public argument, we quietly settled our differences over text messages. Then, one week later, we bumped into each other at The Polo Bar! The universe had said, enough!”
Cohen said the reunion felt right. “It was a nice kind of, ‘Welcome back to the Clubhouse. Welcome back to the Bravo-verse,’” he said.
Cory Wharton Says Daughter Maya’s Open-Heart Procedure Has Inspired Him to Give Back to Families in Need
Cory Wharton says his three-year-old daughter Maya’s latest open-heart surgery has inspired him to give back to other children and families, noting that his charitable efforts are “a far cry from MTV.”
As The Ashley previously told you, Cory and ex-girlfriend Taylor Selfridge’s daughter Maya, who was born with a rare form of heart disease called tricuspid atresia, recently underwent her final open-heart surgery called the Fontan. Two weeks after the surgery, Taylor– who also shares daughter Mila with Cory– told fans that the procedure had improved Maya’s oxygenation levels, as well as her overall coloring.
(According to the Cleveland Clinic website, a Fontan procedure “improves circulation in people who have only one working heart ventricle. This problem happens because of one of several congenital heart diseases. The Fontan procedure lets oxygen-poor blood from the lower part of your body go straight to your pulmonary artery– and then lungs– for oxygen instead of going through your heart first.”)
Cory revealed to TMZ this week that, while Maya’s surgery was successful and she was ultimately discharged from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after a two-week recovery, he realizes that some families aren’t as fortunate.
“I was just happy that we were able to leave the Children’s Hospital, because there’s a lot of families there that they’re not gonna leave, they’re waiting a year or two for a heart transplant,” he said. “ … It’s sad man, walking around there, but there were people in that building that found a way to smile and … just by talking to them over time, I was just like, these people are staying positive when they’re at their lowest and it was crazy for me to see and experience.”
Cory went on to say that the recent experience has inspired him to find ways to help those in need.
“I’m just so thankful to God that we made it out of the hospital, my daughter’s fine and now the biggest thing for me is, like, I’m trying to give back,” he said. “I wanna do whatever I can to try to help out [at] Children’s Hospital or [with] young ones that are in need.
“I wanna give back a little bit … it’s a far cry from MTV, but I wanna try to do something positive with what I got going now,” he added.
As you may remember, Cory and Taylor previously shared that they learned about Maya’s heart condition when Taylor was about 22 weeks pregnant, at which point they were told that Maya would need a series of procedures due to the condition. At just six days old, Maya had a stent put in place; later that year, Maya– then seven-months-old– underwent her first open-heart surgery, during which she suffered some complications.
Taylor shared this month that Maya should not need any more open-heart surgeries in her lifetime; and if she does, it would not be until adulthood.
