Amanda Peet And Andy Cohen Look Back On Debra Winger’s Infamously Uncomfortable ‘WWHL’ Appearance: “I Did The Best I Could”

Debra Winger‘s 2019 appearance on Watch What Happens Live wasn’t just cringey for host Andy Cohen, but also for his second guest that night, actress Amanda Peet.

Peet returned to the Bravo Clubhouse this Thursday night (May 22), where she revealed what she was truly thinking during Cohen’s awkward live interview with Winger.

“The thing is, I worship her … I did the best I could. I love you but I also love her so it was kind of … I do worship her,” Peet said. “Can you just be good at your job and this part is an extra part that you don’t have to be good at?”

Cohen then added, “You felt like you were in the middle a little bit … She didn’t love me.”

During a now-infamous round of “Plead the Fifth,” Winger called out Cohen for mistakenly saying she wrote about her relationship with her Terms of Endearment co-star Shirley MacLaine in her book.

“No! I didn’t write about it. She wrote about me,” Winger said, before snapping, “Let’s try to get something straight. I mean, come on. It’s hard out here for a chimp.”

Things got even more uncomfortable when Cohen asked the actress to rank her onscreen kisses with John Travolta, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, and Richard Gere from best to worst.

“What were you doing 40 years ago? I’m just curious. Do you remember somebody you kissed 30 years ago?” Winger asked, to which Cohen replied, “If it was in an iconic film, I probably would.”

Winger continued, “You don’t think that you sort of are busy investigating a character, which kind of puts you in another self-state so that right now it’s pretty hard to be authentically a person?”

During a panel with Anderson Cooper at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, Cohen described Winger’s Watch What Happens Live appearance as “not that fun,” quipping that she “had no terms of endearment.”

“There have been times where the guest has kind of turned on me or they’ve turned on each other,” he said at the time, per Parade. “It’s not that fun for the host if the guest decides midway through, ‘I hate this guy.’ I do realize that for the viewer, it is fascinating and it generates a lot of conversation. I may leave feeling bad about myself, but I know I showed the people at home a real good time.”

Watch What Happens Live airs Sunday through Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.