Ray J
Ex-Partner Says He’s ‘Suicidal’ …
But Not Violent Toward Her

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February 26, 2026
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February 26, 2026
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Andy Cohen and Lisa Rinna
Friends Again After ‘RHOBH’ Star Torched His Memoir

Published
February 26, 2026
5:57 AM PST

Andy Cohen called out Lisa Rinna for literally burning his memoir The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up in her fireplace.

“You are so extra that you burned the freaking book,” Cohen, 57, quipped during an interview with Rinna, 62, on the Wednesday, February 25, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

The drama between the WWHL host and the Traitors star dates back to the publication of Cohen’s 2023 memoir, in which he revealed that Rinna once texted him “after midnight saying she’s leaving” The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2023. Cohen published that initial text and a followup where Rinna allegedly asked “if there was a path forward” to continue on RHOBH from one week later. (Rinna ultimately left the Bravo series after season 12.)

In her new memoir You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It, Rinna confirmed that she was initially furious about Cohen publishing her late-night texts.

“When anyone gives you a heads-up that you’re in their book, you know you’re f***ed,” Rinna wrote. “He included my personal text messages. It was so shady, so Andy, so Bravo, so unnecessary. After I read it, I was so mad, I threw his book in my fireplace and watched it burn gleefully.”

As they broke down the controversy on Wednesday’s edition of Watch What Happens Live, Cohen confirmed that he apologized directly to Rinna when they recently met up at the Traitors season 4 reunion. (Cohen hosts The Traitors’ end-of-season cast reunion specials.)

“You write in the book about … my publishing a couple of text messages that really pissed you off. Text messages from you that I put in my book Daddy Diaries pissed you off so much that you burned my book in your fireplace,” Cohen explained.

He went on, “I apologize for publishing those texts. … I’ve had that done to me and I didn’t like it. I had all these reasons for doing it and when I really thought about it, I was like, ‘Oh wait, I gotta apologize.’ So, I’m sorry!”

“You apologized in that moment and it meant the world,” Rinna replied.

Cohen’s biggest question was whether his Daddy Diaries book burned “easily” when Rinna tossed it into her fireplace.

“It did,” she insisted. “It was so beautiful to watch your book go up in flames! Andy, really, it’s an honor that I would burn your book. It’s kind of an honor.”

The two also touched on where they stand after Rinna’s somewhat contentious exit from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Cohen said it was “very clear” to him that Rinna still has “a very complicated relationship” with both him and the Housewives franchise.

“What I realized is that you showed up for me on two of the most important days of my life,” Cohen pointed out.

The Watch What Happens Live host mentioned Rinna’s iconic dancing at his baby shower in 2019, in addition to her giving a speech during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in February 2022. The second occasion occurred shortly after the death of Rinna’s mom Lois and on the heels of her infamous Aspen, Colorado, blowout with Kathy Hilton on the set of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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“I just want to thank you. You showed up for me on two very important days for me and that is not lost on me,” Cohen said. “I really appreciate that and I’ll never forget it.”

Rinna assured Cohen, “It was my absolute pleasure.”

Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen airs on Bravo Sundays through Thursdays. New episodes are available the next day on Peacock.

Hilary Knight, U.S. Hockey Star
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February 25, 2026
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Candace Owens is raising questions about Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, in her new multi-part docuseries, Bride of Charlie, exploring Erika’s upbringing and background.

“I will tell you my personal opinion and experience with her. What alarms me about Erika isn’t so much the fact that she lies, which we will prove to you over and over again, but it’s also the fact that I don’t know that she’s aware that she’s lying,” Owens, 36, alleged in the Wednesday, February 25, episode, titled “A Wrinkle In Time.”

In the first installment, Owens accuses Erika, 37, of misrepresenting herself to the public by claiming she was raised by a single mother, alleging that Erika’s claim is merely scratching the surface of what Owens described is a far more complicated and carefully curated narrative.

Owens began her segment by addressing investigative journalist Elizabeth Lane’s viral tweet suggesting that Erika’s public image is not authentic, noting that is just her “opinion” from “consistent, observable patterns of behavior.”

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Owens echoed that sentiment and doubled down on various conspiracy theories that claim Erika is not “simply a grieving widow,” going on to accuse the Turning Point USA CEO of fabricating details about her past for potentially nefarious reasons.

Erika took over the role as Turning Point CEO after her husband, Charlie, was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at an outdoor event on the Utah Valley University campus on September 10, 2025. He was 31.

Owens said that Erika prides herself on being raised by a “strong, independent, entrepreneurial single mother [Lori Frantzve] who taught her how to be a good Christian,” claiming that Erika’s father, Kent Frantzve, was very much in the picture and, at one point, a stay-at-home dad.

The podcaster referenced Erika’s September 2025 profile in The New York Times, in which Erika said being a single mother to her and Charlie’s two kids was “actually the least traumatizing” aspect of her new reality, as she was raised by a single mother herself after her parents divorced. She went on to describe her mother as her “blueprint.”

Owens said Erika’s image is cultivated by “seeding the public with the idea that you can raise kids, and be a single mom, and also be a CEO and boss babe it.”

“The only problem is that it’s just not true. Erika was not raised by a single mother, like, at all,” Owens alleged, further claiming that Kent was “always” in Erika’s life. “So much so that for entire years of her childhood, Kent was actually a stay-at-home dad. So almost the exact opposite thing was true at one point.”

Owens then played a clip of Erika defending stay-at-home dads while chatting with Charlie on an episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, noting her father was a stay-at-home dad for a few years.

“And I gotta say it was really sweet. And really special. I was 4,” Erika said in the clip.

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Owens said Erika was 10 years old when her parents divorced in 1998, “so her father was very much a part of her early childhood and he did not stop being involved in her teenaged years either,” citing conversations she had with classmates and past boyfriends of Erika.

Owens also mentioned that Erika had a stepfather, Larry Ginta, who was a “fixture” in her life “since before her parents’ divorce was ever finalized.”

Us Weekly has reached out to Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA for comment.

After Owens released the trailer for her “investigative docuseries,” several supporters defended Erika online, who received a standing ovation at President Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington on Tuesday, February 24, accusing Owens of using her platform to smear Erika’s image.

“She’s a conspiratorial, evil person,” Ben Shapiro said of Owens during the Tuesday, February 24, episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show” podcast.