Andy Cohen Regrets Asking Oprah Winfrey If She’s Ever Slept with a Girl

Andy Cohen says he nonetheless cringes recalling a second from an interview he did with Oprah Winfrey greater than a decade in the past.

In a brand new interview with Leisure Tonight trying again at among the highs and lows of his profession, the TV host, 56, mentioned certainly one of his “few regrets” is asking Winfrey, now 70, if she’s ever “taken a dip within the girl pond” on a 2013 episode of his Watch What Occurs Reside discuss present.

Cohen was asking her to disclose if she’d ever had a sexual encounter with a lady.

“That is in all probability certainly one of my few regrets,” he informed ET of his option to ask Winfrey the private query, which he informed her on the time was a “basic” question on the Bravo present.

By no means miss a narrative — join PEOPLE’s free every day publication to remain up-to-date on one of the best of what PEOPLE has to supply​​, from superstar information to forcing human curiosity tales. 

As seen in a video clip of the second shared by ET, in response, the Shade Purple Star stared at Cohen and mentioned very immediately, “No, I’ve not. Thanks.”

“It meant a lot to me that Oprah Winfrey did the present,” Cohen informed ET. “It is gone brilliantly and I flip round and ask her if she’s each had intercourse with a lady. I imply, could not I go away it alone?” 

He mentioned that after he requested the query and the cameras had stopped rolling, Winfrey didn’t make him really feel awkward for prying into her intercourse life.

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is right here! How shortly are you able to resolve it? Play now!

Nevertheless, he later received some inside data from the media mogul’s finest pal Gayle King about how Winfrey felt within the second.

“Gayle King informed me later that week that Oprah did not know what I meant by ‘the girl pond,’ ” he mentioned. “I believed I defined it fairly effectively there, however pay attention, I used to be so grateful that Oprah did the present and I nonetheless am.

Regardless of his overstep, Cohen has fond recollections of his interview with Winfrey. “That is still, I feel, my favourite episode [of WWHL],” he mentioned.

ET was interviewing Cohen to rejoice the fifteenth anniversary of WWHL, which is in June.