Bethenny Frankel Reveals Why She's Beefing With Andy Cohen

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Bethenny Frankel just spilled some tea on Team Coco’s Literally! With Rob Lowe! The 52-year-old Real Housewives of New York City star opened up about the obstacles she’s faced while fighting for the unionization of reality TV. Keep reading to find out what she said… She told Rob, “I can tell you with great certainty that everyone at Bravo likely despises me, including Andy Cohen, because it’s very personal and because they have to protect the realm.” Bethenny explained why unionization is so important for reality TV stars. “What we need is, we need a union – not meaning me – I’m not even doing it anymore,” she said. “Meaning, that genre needs a union because those people aren’t even reading other people’s words.

They’re taking such risks by being their own voice. And right now, during this strike, they’re going to be the ones that everybody goes to for cheap labor.” She also noted that she’s been in contact with SAG-AFTRA about the issue. “SAG-AFTRA reached out to me,” Bethenny shared. “And while we’re talking about a union and what that would look like, they also want to know in the short term what they could do to help.

And I was saying there should be some language, some contract language that goes into these contracts that everybody in reality knows to include.” “Like, they can’t just exploit people with these unrealistic NDAs,” she emphasized. “So it’s a very complicated thing I walked myself into whilst also burning bridges and seeming like I’m biting the hand that fed me, but I fed myself.

There are a lot of people who didn’t get fed.” Bravo recently released a statement responding to Bethenny‘s concerns.