Since people are writing blogs abt it, feels like right time to RT this...

I want to clear something up....(@heatco, etc)
A few days ago, after a long day of press for #TheExes, I had a phone interview with someone from a prominent website. He began the interview with "How much did you guys make fun of Wayne Knight after his Death Hoax?"
I was immediately offended. There's NOTHING funny about a death hoax. Was he kidding me?
The interview disintegrated from there. Usually, I'm able to navigate bad interviewers, but I was just exhausted.
The piece ran the next day. It wasn't brilliantly written, and "Wayne Knights Death Hoax" was in the title, but otherwise it was fine.

Then the next day, they decided to run ANOTHER article, the title screaming that I "Blast the Real Housewives franchise!" Ugh.

They took a 40 second piece at the end of our lengthy conversation and focused an entire article on that. Not only that, but the interviewer led me, continually pressing me about how I felt about women & reality shows, etc etc.

The fact is, one of my dearest, oldest friends in the world is Andy Cohen. He knows the shows have never been my cup of tea. But I would never intentionally try to "bash" anything he does. I'm deeply proud of him, respect what he's done immensely, and want only success for everything he does.

What I was TRYING to say, is that I worry that the way the housewives treat each other (fighting, gossiping, general cruelty) has been somehow been picked up by society as acceptable behavior.
I've certainly seen this between women on twitter.

But it's a TELEVISION show. It's not suited for everyone, and most of my friends are obsessed with it. It's called "subjectivity."

I am very unhappy with the scummy way this site behaved, and I will never do another interview with them.

Thanks for reading!

Love,
Kristen Johnston
@kjothesmartass