Carole Radziwill Makes Surprise Return to Bravo After 7 Year Absence — and Shares Hug with Andy Cohen: ‘So Crazy’

And just like that, Bravo’s very own Carrie Bradshaw is back.

Carole Radziwill made a surprise return to the network on Monday, Aug. 4, in an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

It’s the first time the What Remains author has been on the network since her departure from The Real Housewives of New York City seven years ago. She famously had a falling out with executive producer Andy Cohen, though as PEOPLE exclusively revealed in November 2024, the two had squashed the beef.

Certainly that’s what viewers saw on his late night show. Entering into Cohen’s Clubhouse after a game of ‘Mystery Housewife Caller,’ Radziwill greeted her former boss with a big grin and an enthusiastic hug.

“It’s Carole Radziwill!” Cohen told guests Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, giving her a round of applause. “Making a triumphant return! Good to see you!”

Radziwill, for her part, took a moment to get used to her surroundings. “This is so crazy, by the way, to be here,” she admitted, looking around.

“I know, it’s been a minute! Radzi, it’s been a minute!” Cohen told her, using his nickname for her.

Yang and Rogers then showered Radziwill with praise. “We’re honored to be here for you coming back,” Rogers said. “One of the things that made me fall in love with Housewives. I remember, season 7, when you went on the vacation with Dorinda [Medley] and you were both connecting over your [dead husbands], that was really when I was first truly moved by a Housewives show. I just, I love you on the show.”

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Before the series ended, Radziwill plugged her upcoming appearance on CNN’s upcoming three-part documentary American Prince about her cousin, John F. Kennedy, Jr. It airs Aug. 9.

“It’s nice because I don’t participate in a lot of that, but I had a chance to say something nice about John and George [magazine],” she said. “I’m probably the only woman in the world who’s tired of seeing John without a shirt on, so I get to talk about what really mattered to him and his passion and his magazine and of course, Carolyn [Bessette-Kennedy].”

Cohen and Radziwill were friends before she joined the cast of RHONY in season 5, which aired in 2012. The two appeared to be friendly during her years on the show, but things between them became fractured as her friendship with Bethenny Frankel fell apart.

For years, the two only communicated while trading jabs in the press and on social media. But at Bravo Fan Fest 2024 in November, Cohen told PEOPLE that he and Radziwill had “reconnected” after six years of not speaking.

“It feels great,” the 57-year-old father of two said at the time. “Carole and I knew each other for years, before she was ever on the Housewives — for many years. I think I’ve known her more outside of the Housewives than I have in the Housewives. So it was definitely good to reconnect.”

Speaking with PEOPLE soon thereafter, Radziwill, 61, said she was glad she and Cohen had finally talked.

“We both came to understand that our disagreements had everything to do with the high-pressure nature of the show and very little to do with our friendship, which preceded it,” she said. “Andy and I are very much on the same page now, and I’m happy about that.”

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen airs Sunday-Thursday evenings on Bravo.