Karen Huger just returned to The Real Housewives of Potomac. She filmed an interview with Bravo executive producer Andy Cohen at her home. She had just been released from prison a week prior. And her responses were honest, raw, and reflective.
The interview was received with positive response. Both from her cast mates, and from Andy himself. And the Watch What Happens Live host shared his thoughts on the sit-down during a recent episode of his radio show.
Andy Cohen had a one-on-one with RHOP’s Karen Huger
While hosting SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live, Andy explained that to him, “the opinions that almost matter the most,” about Karen’s interview are “the other Potomac housewives.” Gizelle Bryant, for one, previously called bullshit on her co-star’s lack of accountability before her time in jail. Now, she’s praising her frenemy.
Andy recalled Karen’s costars saying, “‘Wow, we didn’t expect Karen to show this much vulnerability and show this much ownership.'”
“For me, and I think for them, hearing Karen talk about the denial that she was in, because they all kept saying, ‘Karen, you are in denial. Karen, you’re in denial.’ Look, she said last night, ‘I was in denial. I had a problem,’ and she said that she had multiple problems,” he continued.
In the interview, which aired on this week’s episode of RHOP, Karen admitted to “mixing prescription medication with alcohol.” Andy spoke to his theory of why she “wasn’t ready to say that she was an alcoholic.” Karen swerved around that word. She was seemingly very humble throughout, but it was important for her to label the situation specifically and correctly.
“It seemed to me that she was masking her pain with prescription medication and antidepressants for years and part of the issue was she was then, and she said she was so unhappy in her own life that she was trying to run away and the way that she was running away was by then mixing alcohol with the prescription medication. That, to me, was a lot to admit,” he concluded.
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