She is misremembering her out of studio times with her former co-host.

This daytime talk show host is misremembering her out of studio times with her former co-host.

She treated him miserably outside the office to get back at him for perceived slights in the office.

Kelly Ripa

Regis Philbin

Kelly Ripa on Regis Philbin ‘feud’: ‘You can’t make a person befriend you’

Kelly Ripa is speaking out about her alleged feud with former “Live!” co-host Regis Philbin, admitting that there were “bad days” on the set of their top-rated talk show.

Philbin — who passed away in 2020 at the age of 88 — spent 13 years co-hosting ABC’s “Live!” alongside Kathie Lee Gifford before Ripa was brought in as her replacement in 2001.

Ripa, 51, subsequently spent 10 years on the program with Philbin before his departure in 2011, with the pair constantly plagued by rumors that they hated one another.

Speaking with People on Monday, Ripa opened up about her “complicated” relationship with Philbin. “I don’t want to feel like I’m slamming anyone or that I’m being disrespectful. But I also want people to know it was not a cakewalk,” she told the outlet.

“It took years to earn my place there and earn things that are routinely given to the men I worked with — including an office and a place to put my computer,” she added.

Ripa addressed rumors that Philbin didn’t want her to replace Gifford on the show, stating: “I understand that probably he didn’t want a co-host, but the network wanted me to be the co-host and I didn’t think I should pass up that opportunity. I don’t think it was fair to him. But it was also not fair to me.”

After getting the call that she had been hired as a co-host, Ripa claims she was warned by her agent that she would be playing second fiddle to Philbin, who had helmed the show for more than a decade.

The small-screen star told People that she recalled her agent telling her: “They want you to know who your boss is.”

“It was very ominous, and it did not feel good,” she admitted. – Source