Lisa Rinna Says She Gave Andy Cohen Too Much Of Her ‘Power’

Throughout an episode of her new podcast, “Let’s Not Discuss About The Husband,” the villainous actuality star mirrored on a earlier interplay with Cohen during which she felt she shrunk herself to satisfy his wants. As she continued, Rinna seemingly hinted that she’d turn out to be accustomed to that habits throughout her eight years working for the community. Nevertheless, the time for change has lastly arrived.

Rinna was a mainstay on the Bravo actuality present from her first season in 2014 up till she departed the sequence in 2022. All through her run, she was concerned in her fair proportion of altercations, which resulted in hours of must-see tv.

Nevertheless, after her eight-year run as a predominant solid member, her departure left a noticeable void within the solid, and the present misplaced a lot of its spark.

A number of have puzzled whether or not the mom of two would return to the sequence, contemplating it revitalized her profession and made her a family title. Nevertheless, she made it clear throughout a earlier interview that she had little interest in rejoining the Beverly Hills social circle.

The truth is, she likened the present to a sinking ship, calling it the “Titanic.”

“Everyone knows it is the f-cking ‘Titanic,'” she said, including that the producers are “at all times wanting” for tactics to make the sequence pop.

On an episode of Cohen’s radio present, “Andy Cohen Reside,” the “Watch What Occurs Reside” host referred to as Rinna out for trashing the present regardless of not being on it.

“You mouth off,” he mentioned earlier than Rinna apologized for hurting his emotions in February 2025.

She mentioned, “I put my foot in my mouth.”

A month later, Rinna addressed the state of affairs with Cohen on her podcast and admitted she fell again right into a “position” she used to play when she labored for the latter.

“What occurred to me, I imagine is, the minute I walked into that house, I [fell] right into a trope of Housewife to Huge Daddy,” Rinna told her husband, Harry Hamlin. “I fall again into a task that I performed, I imagine, for eight years the place I give my energy to Andy Cohen, who’s my boss. Simply dynamically, that’s the place I went proper again to. Virtually like a bit lady going again to the position she performs in her household.”

Rinna’s feedback are unsurprising, although. Former “Actual Housewives” stars, together with NeNe Leakes, Vicki Gunvalson, and Bethenny Frankel, have additionally spoken out about their difficult relationship with Cohen.

“He is on the prime, and he’s shifting everyone round on the board,” Leakes told Frankel throughout a earlier episode of Frankel’s “Simply B” podcast.

The “Real Housewives of New York” alum agreed and even acknowledged the “psychology that goes on with this … present” earlier than saying the “energy” dynamic with Cohen and his solid members is “tough.”

Though Rinna admitted to having an gratifying time with Cohen on his present, the “Days of Our Lives” actress did not really feel nice about her response to Cohen’s pushback concerning her feedback.

“I wouldn’t have mentioned it if I didn’t agree indirectly. However what I actually realized and what I’m attempting to say is: Take into consideration in life whenever you return into conditions that perhaps both held trauma or you will have a response indirectly,” she mentioned. “I used to be in a position to clock it and take a look at my response within the second and the way I actually took on a special position than I’m [in] proper now. Two and a half years later, I’m in a special place, however I reverted again to that previous place.”

Rinna‘s current revelation is not the primary time she’s overtly mirrored on her time on “RHOBH.” Within the debut episode of her podcast, the “American Horror Tales” performer mentioned the second she determined to depart the sequence by emailing her resignation to the producers.

Her authentic plan, nonetheless, was to give up through the present’s season 12 reunion, which aired on tv in October 2022. “I want I’d’ve now that I look again on it,” Rinna mentioned.

“I used to be going to do it on digicam,” she continued. “And I want I’d’ve executed that.”