Kelly Ripa Responds To Kathie Lee Gifford Dissing Her Book: ‘Turning A Negative Into A Positive’

Kelly Ripa, 52, has breached her soundlessness regarding her chap tv big Kathie Lee Gifford‘s disapproval of her caller memoir, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, during an quality connected the Oct. 18 occurrence of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. “It’s truly hard to merchantability a book, right? And this is like, week 3 of the book, right? And I mean, honestly, I’m not gonna lie, I was not speechmaking immoderate headlines anywhere. And abruptly each of these headlines popular up and there’s each of this attraction connected my book,” she recalled. “So I americium a idiosyncratic that tends to instrumentality a antagonistic and crook it into a positive. And truthful my eventual remark is, convey you.”

“It’s similar truly hard to get attraction connected a publication that’s been retired for a mates of weeks and present it’s week two, 2nd week connected The New York Times Best Sellers list,” the Live! With Kelly and Ryan big continued. “It’s like, convey you due to the fact that I deliberation that radical that work the publication volition person a precise antithetic instrumentality connected the book.”

Kelly Ripa addressed Kathie Lee Gifford’s disapproval of her publication portion connected the ‘Not Skinny But Not Fat’ podcast connected Oct. 18, 2022 (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/MediaPunch/Shutterstock)

The mother of three besides noted that she thinks Kathie’s sentiment of her penning volition alteration if she decides to work it. “I deliberation anybody that reads the publication volition person a wholly antithetic take,” Kelly explained.

On Oct. 10, Kathie, 69, said she wouldn’t beryllium speechmaking Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories due to Kelly’s claims of a powerfulness conflict connected acceptable with Regis Philbin, the beloved tv big who died successful July 2020 astatine the property of 88. Kelly hosted Live! With Regis and Kelly for 10 years aft taking Kathie’s spot successful 2001. “I was precise atrocious to spot the headlines,” Kathie big told Fox 5’s Rosanna Scotto during an interview. “You know, you ne'er cognize what’s existent and what’s not true. I went, ‘I anticipation this isn’t true. I conscionable anticipation it isn’t.’ ‘Cause what’s the point? I don’t get it. I don’t get it.”

She aboriginal added, “I’m not gonna work the book. I haven’t work it. I don’t adjacent cognize if it’s retired yet.” She past praised Regis and gushed astir their close, trusting enslaved arsenic coworkers. “I conscionable cognize what Regis was to me, Rosanna,” she noted. “He was 15 years the champion spouse I could ever person professionally. But helium was my friend. We were beloved friends and aft I near the amusement … for the adjacent 20 years we became amended friends. Dearer friends.”

Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa grin connected the acceptable of “Live! With Regis and Kelly’ (Photo: Charles Sykes/AP/Shutterstock)

Kelly mentioned that she knew she would beryllium taxable to disapproval by penning the publication during her Not Skinny But Not Fat quality and recalled questioning whether oregon not she should uncover her feelings astir her narration with Regis. “And past I constitute this full chapter, [which] is astir correcting the grounds successful real-time. Do you bash it? Should 1 bash it? Theoretically, should a idiosyncratic close the grounds successful real-time oregon should they not adjacent remark connected it?” she pondered retired loud. “Because here’s the thing, it’s similar I talked to the radical who work the book. I knew penning a publication was going to unfastened maine up to each sorts of criticism, right? But radical who work the publication person a precise antithetic instrumentality connected those chapters due to the fact that they work the book.” It appears Kelly is taking immoderate backlash with a atom of salt.

“You don’t person to work each book. Nobody has to work each publication connected Earth,” she continued with a affirmative outlook connected her memoir. “The comments I’ve gotten astir those chapters person been overwhelmingly affirmative and the radical who work the publication took distant a batch of positivity from it.”

Kelly antecedently admitted to PEOPLE that penning astir Regis was “the hardest section to write”. She explained, “I don’t privation to consciousness similar I’m slamming anyone oregon that I’m being disrespectful. But I besides privation radical to cognize it was not a cakewalk. It took years to gain my spot determination and gain the things that are routinely fixed to the men I worked with. Including an bureau and a spot to enactment my computer.”