The year was 2018, and Debra Winger was in Andy Cohen's hot seat. As they played "Plead the Fifth," Winger outed the host's lack of research. Winger tersely pointed out that she never wrote about a rumored relationship with her "Terms of Endearment" co-star Shirley MacLaine in her 2008 memoir, "Undiscovered." "No! I didn't write about her. She wrote about me!" Winger told Cohen. "Let's try to get something straight. I mean, c'mon ... It's hard out here for a chimp."
Winger also took offense when Cohen asked her to rank the kissing skills of her leading men, including Richard Gere, John Travolta, and Robert Redford. "Oh God, what were you doing 40 years ago?" Winger snapped. "So you remember somebody you kissed 30 years ago?" She then reminded Cohen that she was acting when she kissed her co-stars. "You don't think that you sort of are busy investigating a character, which kind of puts you in another self state?" she asked. "Right now it's pretty hard to be authentically a person." Yikes!
Cohen later recalled the awkward exchange in a Q&A session at a For Your Consideration Emmys event. "Oh my God, it was bad, I almost can't talk about it." he told the crowd in 2019 (per The Daily Dish). "You know what's weird about Debra Winger? We really did connect, and during the commercial break, she kept saying, 'You know, you're like my Jewish little brother. I feel connected to you.' But then when the camera came on, she wasn't having me."
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