Courtesy of E! News

Andy Cohen finally spoke about Phaedra Parks getting the boot from Real Housewives of Atlanta after it was revealed she was the culprit behind a rumor that cast mate Kandi Burruss and her husband planned on drugging and taking home fellow cast member Porsha Williams.

The revelation led to an incredibly emotional reunion episode.

“The question that we look at now with Phaedra is, when the reunion ended, none of the other women wanted to have anything to do with her. So that’s what you have to look at,” Andy told E! News. “How do you shoot a show about a group of friends when no one is speaking to one of the friends?”

RHONY star Bethenny Frankel also chimed in: “I’ve been doing this for 10 years. I actually, sadly, consider myself to be a veteran. The producers do not make you do these things at all. The producers don’t know exactly what’s going on, so they might say, ‘Are you going to talk to Kandi about this?’ They don’t know. They would never do that. It would be a massive problem. This isn’t The Hills, it’s real. It really is. So yeah, no, that would never happen.”