Howard Stern recently reflected on his friendship with Carolyn Bessette — but did not divulge all the details.
“I knew the real Carolyn Bessette,” the radio personality, 72, insisted on the Monday, March 23, episode of The Howard Stern Show, according to Rolling Stone. “I won’t say I knew her well, but we had many, many conversations, more than casual conversations. She was very lovely. She was like a really nice woman.”
“I don’t want to go into how I knew her, but I knew her. I know enough to keep my mouth shut about that,” Stern continued. “Some stuff you do have to keep private … But she was very nice to me, very open and talkative. She didn’t give me the nose-up-in-the air kind of thing. I don’t have any juicy, gossipy story.”
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While the comedian opted not to share the origins of their meeting, he also spoke about posing for the April 1996 cover of George, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s magazine.
“He actually showed up to the shoot. It’s one of the worst covers I ever did, and I did a lot of bad ones,” Stern recalled. “They convinced me to be chopping down a cherry tree with a chainsaw dressed up in colonel garb. I guess I was supposed to be George Washington, but George Washington didn’t wear this shit I was wearing. I looked like Paul Revere in drag.”
“John and the photographer did that thing they do to supermodels. They go. ‘Gorgeous, you look great. This is the greatest cover,’” Stern recounted. “I’m posing while the guy is clicking away, and I’m posing like I’m Cindy Crawford or one of the Hadid sisters. That was before I knew about photo approval. I guess I kind of look like Captain Hook or something.”
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The famed broadcaster said he didn’t necessarily want to be on magazine covers, but did it for JFK Jr., who, in turn, came on his radio show.
“I would do Rolling Stone and that was the only one,” Stern admitted. “But when John Kennedy Jr. [asks], who is literally American royalty and the nicest guy in the world … he was a super nice guy. And there was the opportunity that perhaps he’d come on the show.”
When JFK Jr. appeared on Stern’s show, he discussed his now-infamous public fight with Bessette in an NYC park, calling it “a silly argument,” according to People.
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