Andy Cohen On How Kelly Ripa Helped Him Diagnose His Cancer

Andy Cohen owes his life to Kelly Ripa after a push from her led him to discover he had skin cancer.

Cohen opened up about his diagnosis while co-hosting “Live with Kelly” on Friday.

“You and I were at a party for Anderson’s [Cooper] mom in April, and you said, ‘You have a black dot on your lip, I don’t think that’s something good,’” Cohen told Ripa on-air. “It was melanoma and they removed it, and I just want to thank you because you were so dogmatic,” he continued. “… The lip heals very well and I really had a chunk removed out of it.”

Andy Cohen likely attributes his skin cancer to over exposure to the sun, citing his addiction to tanning as a primary culprit. He says that this experience “will change my relationship to the sun.” “I am tanorexic, I love the sun.  And I of course never thought that kind of thing would happen to me,” Cohen added.