Andy Cohen says his 6-year-old son, Ben, was feeling FOMO about missing Father’s Day dinner with Cohen and John Mayer.
Cohen, 47, shared his parenting drama in an excerpt of his Andy Cohen Live radio show posted via Instagram on Monday, June 16.
“John [Mayer] took me out for Father’s Day last night and Ben was so pissed that I was going out to dinner,” Cohen said, adding, “By the way, I was going out at his bedtime, so like, he wasn’t missing anything.”
Cohen said that Ben “wanted to go and he revoked my Father’s Day card, which he had made for me. He took it away from me.”
When Cohen’s cohost, John Hill, remarked that the dad-centric holiday is the “one day” for the family to spend together, Cohen replied, “Well, guess what? We celebrated all day. There was 10 minutes left in his day.”
While Ben had been upset, he calmed down once Mayer, 47, arrived.
“John melted him. John was singing to him. Ben was sitting there smiling. I was like, ‘Oh, OK. All is, all’s good,’” recalled Cohen, who is also dad to daughter Lucy, 3. (Ben and Lucy were born via different surrogates, and are biological siblings.)
The “Gravity” musician is one of Cohen’s best friends. Last year, the Bravo personality addressed speculation about their friendship in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying, “Let them speculate! I honestly love John Mayer, and he loves me. But because we’re so affectionate toward each other, people don’t know what box to put that in. They assume we’re sleeping with each other, which we are most definitely not.”
After the interview was published, Mayer sent an open letter to the outlet with his critical feedback.
“I read your interview with Andy Cohen, and was intrigued by your line of questioning regarding our friendship,” the singer wrote in May 2024. “You posited that ‘your friendship with Mayer has been a subject of intense speculation. People seem dubious that a straight rock star can have a close platonic relationship with a gay TV personality.’ I think this is somewhat of a specious premise.”
Mayer asserted that there is “a long and storied history” of rock stars “befriending gay icons and artists.” (Mayer identifies as straight, while Cohen came out as gay when he was 22, decades before he became famous.)
“I think that to suggest that people are dubious of a friendship like mine and Andy’s is to undermine the public’s ability to accept and understand diversity in all facets of culture, be it in art or in real life,” Mayer added in his letter. “I’d like to think they’re sophisticated enough to see a relationship like ours without assuming it must include a sexual component.”
