{"id":303133,"date":"2026-02-26T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303133\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:11:07","slug":"lisa-rinna-slams-andy-cohen-for-his-below-the-belt-move-so-shady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303133\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Rinna slams Andy Cohen for his below the belt move: &#8216;So shady&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1393787_124755_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Lisa Rinna slams Andy Cohen for his below the belt move: 'So shady'\"\/>Lisa Rinna slams Andy Cohen for his below the belt move: &#8216;So shady&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Andy Cohen has broken his silence after Lisa Rinna did an unexpected thing with his book.<\/p>\n<p>The author of The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up interviewed Rinna on the Wednesday, February 25 episode of Watch What Happens with Andy Cohen, where he inquired about why she burnt his book in her fireplace.<\/p>\n<p>In his 2023 publication, Cohen revealed that she once messaged him \u201cafter midnight saying she\u2019s leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He took a step further and published their conversation in which Rinna asked him \u201cif there was a path forward\u201d to continue her journey on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n<p>In her book You Better Believe I&#8217;m Gonna Talk About It, which came out on February 24, 2026, the 62-year-old American actress admitted that she was reeling with anger after finding out about her late-night chat with Cohen in his book.<\/p>\n<p>She penned, \u201cWhen anyone gives you a heads-up that you\u2019re in their book, you know you\u2019re f***ed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strongly disapproving of the inclusion of her \u201cpersonal text messages\u201d in his book, Rinna called it \u201cso shady, so Andy, so Bravo, so unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Veronica Mars star \u201cthrew his book in my fireplace and watched it burn gleefully\u201d right after she read those texts because she \u201cwas so mad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Cohen, who hosted The Traitors\u2019 end-of-season cast reunion, apologized her when they crossed paths there.<\/p>\n<p>He confessed, \u201cYou write in the book about \u2026 my publishing a couple of text messages that really pissed you off. Text messages from you that I put in my book Daddy Diaries pissed you off so much that you burned my book in your fireplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologize for publishing those texts. \u2026 I\u2019ve had that done to me and I didn\u2019t like it. I had all these reasons for doing it and when I really thought about it, I was like, \u2018Oh wait, I gotta apologize.\u2019 So, I\u2019m sorry!\u201d Cohen explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou apologized in that moment and it meant the world,\u201d Rinna said, accepting his public apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Rinna slams Andy Cohen for his below the belt move: &#8216;So shady&#8217; Andy Cohen has broken his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-303133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}