In the wee hours of Thursday morning, a heavily inebriated Andy Cohen decided to wrap up CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live broadcast by going scorched earth on the city’s outgoing mayor — despite his co-host Anderson Cooper’s best efforts.

Andy Cohen seemingly isn’t letting any backlash to his now-viral New Year’s Eve rant get him down. “All the validation I need,” Cohen, 57, wrote via his Instagram Stories on Friday, January 2, alongside a snap of a Starbucks coffee cup with the handwritten message,

Andy Cohen shut down speculation that he got plastic surgery ahead of hosting CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live.” “Did the smallest amount of Botox and lost 20 pounds ! And had a lot of makeup on,” Cohen wrote via Threads on Thursday.