"My overwhelming feeling about Bethenny leaving New York -- and I told her this six weeks ago, [if she were] going to leave -- that I am so grateful that she came back," Cohen told his listeners. "She already left, is what we need to remember, so we were so lucky to have these last seasons with her on it."
"It was just so fun to have her back and she brought so much to the show that I just am living in the gratitude of her second return, and I will hopefully live in the gratitude of her third return," Andy said. "Because we are much like the mob: you can't get out. And I do hope and think that she will come back some time. Who knows?"
"The other thing is," he made sure to note, "she is still so a part of everything that's going on that you almost could see her dropping in, and it's like, 'Oh, my God! Okay! Bethenny's at a party,' or 'Bethenny's on this trip!' You know, you never know. You never know."
"I look forward to her in any capacity on the show, and I'm just grateful that she was back at all," he added. "We all should be."
Andy refused to answer to rumors that Frankel eventually left the series because she was demanding more money. He also made it clear that the Skinnygirl mogul's departure had nothing to do with rumors about Jill Zarin's possible return to the show, adding that Jill was "not existent in this conversation."
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