Andy Cohen defends asking Matty Healy’s mom, Denise Welch, about Taylor Swift and ‚The Tortured Poets Department‘ album on ‚WWHL‘
Andy Cohen has no regrets about asking Matty Healy’s mom, Denise Welch, about Taylor Swift.
After Cohen, 57, asked Welch, 67, about Swift’s Tortured Poets Department album during Watch What Happens Live on Thursday, July 24, a fan took to X to ask why the talk show host would bring up the album and the pop star’s relationship with Healy, 36.
“Oh no! @Andy why ask this?” the fan wrote on Friday, July 25.
Cohen’s response was simple: “why NOT?”
The fan wrote back, “Love you, but being both a 1975 and TS fan is already hard enough on these mean internet streets. Today is ROUGH!”
Cohen replied with a smiley face.
On Thursday, Cohen asked Welch about her reaction to The Tortured Poets Department, which many fans believed was inspired by Healy after his relationship with Swift, 35, in 2023.
“Obviously on pain of death can I talk about that episode, but not being her mother-in-law is a role that I’m glad that I lost,” Welch said, earning gasps from the WWHL audience.
