Andy Cohen Claps Back At Jen Shah For Claiming He Was “Butt Hurt” She Denied His Interview Request: “Her Stipulations Were Insane”

Andy Cohen is clapping back at The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah after she accused the Bravo boss of being “butt hurt” that she turned down his one-on-one interview before she was sent away to prison.

The reality star’s comment from behind bars came after her former co-star Heather Gay alleged during Tuesday night’s (Jan. 2) Season 4 finale of RHOSLC that Shah was the one who gave her that infamous Season 3 black eye.

“Bravo, if I punched Heather in her eye, you guys would have footage to prove it,” Shah wrote on her Instagram Story. “It’s clear the show can’t live without me since I was brought up at the beginning, middle and end of Season 4.”

She added, “Andy is still butt hurt that I turned down his 1:1 interview. Why would you sit down with someone who ‘gave’ another cast member a black eye? Next story.”

On Wednesday (Jan. 3), Cohen took to his SiriusXM radio show to directly address Shah’s statement. He began by noting the “ironic” timing of her assumptions since he was recently the “victim of an online and phone scam” in which he “lost a lot of money” — and while Shah wasn’t connected to his experience, she was sentenced to more than six years in prison for her involvement in a telemarketing scheme.

“Let me point out. I don’t want to be captain obvious here. But if we had footage, don’t you think we would have aired it?” he asked. “Do ya think we wouldn’t have said Heather… Heather saying, ‘I don’t know how I got the black eye.’ And then, don’t you think we would have cut to the footage and with a chyron that said ‘Four hours earlier?’ Pop!”

As for their sit-down interview that never was, Cohen claimed he “had forgotten” about it until Shah brought it up on Instagram.

“She is right. I did want to do a one-on-one with her. I don’t care about it anymore. I’m over it,” he said. “Her stipulations were insane. I know she wanted us to do a docuseries of her days leading up to jail. She wanted a lot of money, and she was still professing her innocence.”

He continued, “So it would have been another interview of her sitting across from me lying to my face, which we got at two reunions from her, so that’s that. That’s my response to that.”

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is currently streaming on Peacock.