Andy Cohen apologizes to Ryan Seacrest over 'drunk and stupid' rant during New Year's Eve broadcast

Andy Cohen has issued a public apology to Ryan Seacrest following his "drunk and stupid" rant on New Year's Eve on CNN.

Cohen co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve Live on December 31 with Anderson Cooper.

Despite Cooper's efforts to rein him in, Cohen went on several rants during the special including telling Mark Zuckerberg to "stop messing with our minds" and calling the New York City mayor Bill de Blasio "horrible."

At one point he started slamming ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, who were filming live right next to the CNN team.

"Bunch of smoke coming from Ryan Seacrest's group of losers that are performing behind us," Cohen said about the ABC's New Year broadcast.

"I mean with all due — if you've been watching ABC tonight, you've seen nothing, I'm sorry," he added.

Cohen also went on a rant about how the Journey band playing on the ABC's broadcast was "fake" because it was not led by Steve Perry.

On Monday, January 3, Cohen addressed his words on his SiriusXM radio show, Just Andy, with his co-host John Hill.

"Only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the ABC broadcast and I really like Ryan Seacrest and he's a great guy and I really regret saying that," he said.

"And I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it. I was continuing the Journey rant and I just kept talking and I shouldn't have and I felt bad about that," he added.

Hill said that the television talk host should own the mistake rather than apologize. Hill added that the headlines about the situation painted Cohen's comments differently.

"That's the problem. The headlines about Ryan Seacrest were all like 'I trashed Ryan Seacrest,'" Cohen said. "I hope he hears the clip."

Since the incident, Cohen has tweeted that he had been a "bit overserved" during the New Year's special but refused to be ashamed.