Bethenny Frankel is providing an replace on the place she stands with Andy Cohen amid her ongoing requires actuality stars to begin a union — and her ongoing claims in opposition to Bravo.
Because the Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum, 52, additionally denied the claims Lisa Vanderpump, 62, made concerning the supposed $360,000 wage of former Vanderpump Guidelines star Raquel Leviss, 28, Bethenny revealed if she’s spoken to Andy, 55, hinted at a future challenge with Raquel, and addressed the backlash she’s gotten for her interview with the ex-reality star.
“What a whirlwind,” Bethenny started on the August 21 episode of her Simply B With Bethenny podcast. “Interviewing Rachel, going viral, breaking the web, so many rumors, so many press articles and it’s unsettling to be trustworthy. She’s gotten lots of hate from the world and I’m taking up lots of that hate now.”
In accordance with Bethenny, she’s “proud” of herself for not caring concerning the negativity she’s confronted — and for being on the “proper facet of historical past.”
“Folks I actually respect within the leisure business and politics, authorities, enterprise, and folks I simply work together with on a day after day are all saying to me, ‘You’re doing the appropriate factor,’” she revealed. “I’m completely on the appropriate facet of historical past. I’ve had 5 documentarians attain out to me [who] need to do documentaries … I struck a twine and a nerve.”
As for individuals saying she shouldn’t be main this cost, Bethenny mentioned she would love somebody to appoint themselves to take over.
“Does anybody suppose I assumed a pair weeks in the past, ‘Let me f*cking begin a sh*t-storm, make tons of enemies, burn bridges that I didn’t have to burn and be the chief of a cost, have conferences that I didn’t have to have, having conferences with SAG and AFTRA and with attorneys and all these completely different individuals?’” she requested. “I might be browsing so if anyone else needs to steer the cost, have at it.”
Persevering with on concerning the hate she’s gotten for her interview with Raquel, which many imagine solely additional “exploited” the Pump Guidelines alum, Bethenny joked that she now not wants a publicist.
“I’ve acquired all these hate websites. Preserve going. I prefer it. Folks have a tough time with that as a result of then the place are you gonna go? I don’t give a sh*t. It’s engagement,” she famous.
Though Raquel was reportedly not paid for her three-part interview on Bethenny’s podcast, Bethenny hinted that she’ll workforce up together with her on an upcoming challenge or initiatives (Raquel beforehand shared plans to begin a podcast).
“Whether or not I paid her or not, how are you aware what I did? How are you aware what I’m doing together with her? No one is aware of what I’m actually doing however I like the hypothesis,” she teased. “We’re primary worldwide. We’re having a dialog with a girl who hasn’t been in a position to get a dialog out, unedited.”
Following the discharge of her podcast episodes final month, Lisa spoke out in opposition to Bethenny’s suggestion that her interns made greater than Raquel did on Pump Guidelines.
“‘Scandoval‘ was pushed by the PR machine and this specific incident triggered individuals extra and everyone did make some huge cash and Rachel didn’t,” Bethenny alleged, giving a nod to the storyline surrounding Raquel’s affair with Tom Sandoval, 40. “And the quantity on the market, saying she made a number of hundred thousand {dollars} for the season is fake, utterly false.”
As Bethenny famous, the producer of Pump Guidelines mentioned they had been going to cancel the present earlier than “Scandoval” saved it. So to suppose that Raquel, who was in her third season as a full-time forged member, can be given $360,000 to seem on a failing present “simply wouldn’t occur.”
Within the weeks since she went public together with her unionization calls, Bethenny has been accused of retaliating in opposition to Bravo after a present she pitched was shelved. Nevertheless, in response to Bethenny, she was by no means in talks with Bravo in regard to the potential sequence.
“I used to be speaking to a manufacturing firm,” she clarified. “I spoke to Andy one time however Andy wasn’t even engaged on this challenge and I spoke to a manufacturing firm and Bravo was probably the most logical place that this challenge would dwell … [but I] determined a number of months in the past that I didn’t need to do the present.”
Wanting again, Bethenny mentioned that as a result of she heard a few lawsuit in opposition to the manufacturing firm that she was doing the present with, which accused the corporate of stealing somebody from Married to Medication‘s present, she now not needed to maneuver ahead. As well as, she needed to show her focus to social media as a result of it permits her extra management over the content material she shares.
“I simply felt a bit sketch. It wasn’t an enormous deal. So I walked away from that deal,” she added.
As for her relationship with Andy, Bethenny confirmed they’ve not spoken.
“Some individuals say to me, ‘Oh wow, is Andy mad you’re doing this? Have you ever spoken to him?’ And I say, ‘I’ve not however I’m certain he’s.’ [But] this isn’t a goal on Andy. This isn’t a goal on Bravo. That is a few systemic concern within the leisure business,” she shared.
