Andy Cohen Breaks Down in Tears as He Recalls a Recent Comment from His 6-Year-Old Son Ben
Andy Cohen is looking back on a sweet moment with his son.
During an episode of SiriusXM's Radio Andy earlier this week, the late-night host, 56, recalled an adorable moment he shared with his son Benjamin, 6, after returning home from his Spring Break trip to Disney World. Cohen said that during a trip to the park, he noticed a kid who looked like a teenager hanging around.
'And I go, 'That's gonna be you. … One day you're gonna be like, 'Dude, I don't want to hang out with you,' ' he said, joking that his son would grow tired of hanging out with him as he got older. 'And he goes, 'No, I'm not gonna do that.'"
'And he goes, 'You know, Daddy, when I'm 60' — oh, I'm gonna cry — he goes, 'I wanna take a pill so I can come back and be little like this so I can just be with you,' he continued, adding that he thinks his son is now realizing he won't always be around. 'I hate to end the show in tears, but … we had such a deep [talk] and had a long hug on the playground when he was, you know, thinking about that."
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As a guest on David Duchovny's podcast Fail Better, the Watch What Happens Live host revealed that while he didn't use to feel self-doubt frequently, becoming a father has given him "a whole world of worry."
"I told you earlier that I wasn't someone that had a lot of self-doubt," he told Duchovny, "But, I mean, this will do it to you — being a parent. You start to question everything, especially as a single parent."
Cohen continued to list the questions that "keep him up at night," sharing, "Everything from what kind of world am I bringing my child into, to, you know, what's gonna happen to us? What happens if something happens to me? Are they gonna be okay?"
"I mean, there's a whole world of worry that I never had," he added.
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In addition to his son, the Bravo host is a dad to daughter Lucy, 2. Both kids were born via surrogacy, and although Ben and Lucy were carried by different surrogates, Cohen has said that the two are "biological siblings."
"Family means everything to me and having one of my own is something that I have wanted in my heart for my entire life," Cohen said in 2018, shortly before his son Ben's birth. "Though it's taken me longer than most to get there, I cannot wait for what I envision will be the most rewarding chapter yet."
Cohen, who was 50 when his son Ben was born, also said that he'd "never thought it would be possible" for him to have a family.
"When I was growing up and when we were growing up … I just never thought it would be possible as a gay man to grow up and have a family," he continued. "... I'm so grateful to a wonderful surrogate that I'm working with."
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