Andy Cohen Says He and John Mayer ‘Love Each Other Deeply’

Platonic love is in the air for Andy Cohen and John Mayer.

In a new interview on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast, the Emmy-winning TV personality, 57, opened up about his close friendship with Mayer, 48, and described a “typical night out” for them.

“It is us going to dinner. We always sit on the same side of the booth. We sit next to each other always,” said Cohen, noting that the friends don’t hold hands at dinner. “But I do, as the night goes on, find myself sinking into him because he’ll have his arm around me.”

He continued, “As a matter of fact, we were at the Sunset Tower last week and I was getting so physical with him by the end that he was like, ‘Andy,’ but I was kind of using his body to tell a story about a guy, but then I was like, I was in my cups a little bit.”

“We were in a puddle of laughter,” added Cohen of their recent outing. “We love each other deeply. We actually do.”

However, the Real Housewives producer insisted he’s “not secretly in love with him.”

“We love each other,” he said. “If I could find a gay guy that was him, it would be magic, but you know what? I am so grateful for the love that we have.”

Cooper, 31, then asked what kind of romantic partner Cohen would set Mayer up with if given the chance. “It would be someone who has their own thing going, who has their own success, who is just smart and funny, and just someone strong and independent,” he explained.

Cohen and Mayer have been close for years and connected over their shared love of the Grateful Dead. Fans have speculated in the past about the nature of their relationship, but they’ve both shut down rumors that it’s more than platonic.

In a May 2024 email to The Hollywood Reporter, Mayer shared his thoughts after the publication asked Cohen if they’re romantically involved in an interview.

“I think that to suggest that people are dubious of a friendship like mine and Andy’s is to undermine the public’s ability to accept and understand diversity in all facets of culture, be it in art or in real life,” he wrote at the time. “I’d like to think they’re sophisticated enough to see a relationship like ours without assuming it must include a sexual component. That turns the concept of being gay into an ignorantly two-dimensional one, which I know you know it’s not. I don’t question that at all.”

Mayer added that “if someone is dubious of a platonic relationship between a straight man and a gay man, I don’t think that shallow a view deserves clarification by anyone with self respect, be it Andy or your publication. Reinforcing the idea that any gay/straight relationship needs qualification that it’s not sexual devoids everyone involved of their dignity.”