Andy Cohen wonders when he’s going to get cancelled: ‘I’m always waiting for the thing that’s going to make it all fall down’

Andy Cohen is opening up about the possibility that he could lose his career for saying something inappropriate, a fine line he walks in Bravo’s sometimes salacious reality TV universe.

“It’s fascinating to me,” the 56-year-old St. Louis resident said Vulture Monday “the idea that you could say anything and everything would be taken away from you.”

The Real Housewives executive producer in the piece – titled The Last Inappropriate Man on Television How Andy Cohen Survived the Reality Reckoning (at least for now) – explained how he has already toned down aspects of his act so as not to offend people.

“You have to be smart about what you say because there’s no nuance anymore,” Cohen said. “People are just waiting to get outraged over every little thing.”

Watch what happens live! host said in the piece that he enjoys “being provocative” and the spontaneity and danger that comes with it.

Watch what happens live! host said in the piece that he enjoys “being provocative” and the spontaneity and danger that comes with it

“It makes me feel like I’m living in a strange way,” he said. ‘I think sometimes it goes to the core of who someone is. If you navigate it right, it can become something incredible and intoxicating. It’s like dancing on the water: are you going there or not?’

Cohen, who also heads the Radio Andy network on SiriusXM, admits he sometimes wonders if he said something that day that will lead to his cancellation.

“Sometimes I lie in bed at night and think, ‘Huh, did I say something?’ said Cohen. “I’m always waiting for the thing that will make everything fall apart.”

The article mentioned a lawsuit filed earlier this year by RHONY star Leah McSweeney, alleging that Cohen was at the center of drug use – sharing cocaine with members of the Real Housewives cast, as well as playing favorites and promoting a toxic culture in the workplace.

Cohen told Vulture that he has “never done cocaine with cast members,” and that he has been candid about his entire drug history in the books he has written.

In the following weeks, NBCU unveiled a workplace investigation, Vulture reported, as “rumors swirled that Cohen hired a crisis PR team and negotiated a ‘severance package.'”

The outlet cited that amid what appeared to be a mounting career crisis for Cohen, “Nothing Happened,” as he continued to broadcast without interruption on his outlets, appearing at the Met Gala while his show Watch What Happens Live was extended into next year.

From there, Cohen was ultimately cleared by Bravo and NBCU “in their outside investigation,” the outlet noted, adding that Cohen appeared to be taking a victory lap with a cover story in The Hollywood Reporter with the Mad Magazine-inspired headline: “What, Am I Worried?”

Cohen appears to have survived a potential career crisis that involved a lawsuit against him and Bravo by a former RHONY star

Cohen said in the piece that he is “always waiting for the thing that will make everything collapse.”

The profile noted that it served as “a testament to Cohen’s great interpersonal skills that he was able to preside over a host of exceptionally volatile personalities for years before they began to turn against him” in the form of lawsuits and other accusations. .

It described the Real Housewives stars as “essentially gig workers who had forfeited control of their image in the service of jobs that offered them high status but didn’t even provide them with health insurance,” naming Bethenny Frankel as the only notable individual who leveraged the show’s fame to reap enormous wealth in business.

The outlet noted a series of new headaches for Cohen with many of the reality stars he had hit with the Real Housewives franchise.

Cohen told the network he was blindsided by a “sustained attack” led by Frankel through an effort to unite reality stars during last year’s entertainment industry strikes.

Lawsuits mentioned in the story include a 2022 lawsuit from The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Nene Leakes against him, Bravo and NBCU, alleging racism.

Another comment was Dorinda Medley’s butler Marco Vega’s complaint against Bravo and NBCU over Real Housewife of Beverly Hills’ alum Brandi Glanville’s behavior during production of the 2021 Bravo series Ultimate Girls Trip: Return to Bluestone Manor.

Another lawsuit was filed by Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Caroline Manzo against Bravo and NBCU over Glanville’s conduct during the production of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.

Glanville publicly accused Cohen of sexual harassment earlier this year.

Cohen pictured at last month’s Met Gala in New York, following multiple lawsuits

Cohen told Vulture that he “didn’t like” being at the center of the storm, adding that “there was a lot of noise” and that he was “definitely sad about it.”

He added that his personal experiences differed greatly from the tensions described online.

“I’m telling you — and it sounds like bulls*** — but when I walked into BravoCon,” he said, “it was like, ‘Dude, get off Twitter. That’s a lot of clickbait.’ This is common sense.’

In the piece, Cohen said he enjoys the fame that comes with being widely known in the media.

“I lived in New York for 15 years without being able to get reservations at restaurants, so yeah, of course I’m going to enjoy it,” Cohen said, adding that he “had an idea of ​​how to behave” once he started. be recognised.

He added: “Then I had a lot of people who were normal people and became famous, housewives who turned into animals because of it. So ultimately I’m very grateful for the whole thing. And you have to keep that perspective. You can’t go all-in on it. Because it could all be gone tomorrow.”