RHONY’s Carole Radziwill recalls the time she kissed Liam Neeson at Andy Cohen’s Christmas party

She’s hobnobbed with celebrities such as Susan Sarandon and Melanie Griffith. 

But one chance encounter with a movie star in particular moved Real Housewife of New York Carole Radziwill to write about him years later, in a new article for Town & Country.

In the piece, Radziwill, now 57, reflected on the time she met – and was kissed by – actor Liam Neeson at Andy Cohen‘s Christmas party.

‘I met him at a Christmas party one night and my knees buckled,’ Carole wrote. ‘If I knew how to swoon, I would have swooned. And it’s not because he’s a movie star. If you’ve met one you’ve met them all, and I’ve met more than my share.

‘It started over the eggnog. I was at Andy Cohen’s annual Christmas party,’ she continued.

And about Neeson, 68, in particular, the journalist wrote: ‘The height and bulk of him was overwhelming, like finding yourself at the base of a California Redwood. 

‘I don’t remember what we went on to talk about because a few moments later another man walked past in the overcrowded room and bumped me out of his way, spilling my eggnog. I don’t recall one detail about the second man. I only remember Liam.  

‘He put his huge hand on my arm to steady me, and then I could hear his deep Rob Roy Irish voice: “Hey, listen. If you can’t watch where you’re going I’m going to have to ask you to leave,”‘ she continued.

Soon, things got a touch more intimate. 

‘I can’t recall if there was a lull in the conversation, but I do know at one point he leaned in. “Would you mind if I kissed you?” he asked. 

‘I said, “Sure.” He kissed me anyway,’ Radziwill reminisced. ‘Not a French kiss, but a longer-than-hello one.’

And about Cohen’s Christmas soirees of yore, Carole shared some enlightening details.

Aside from booze, she wrote, ‘there were two other things you could count on at this party: the brownies will get you stoned, and one surprise guest will show up. 

‘One year it was Madonna with her own chic entourage,’ Radziwill added. ‘She sat in the corner and grumbled about the music. Another year, during his lumbersexual phase, John Mayer showed up in flannel and stayed until the end. Once, I brought Susan Sarandon with me and she started chatting with a woman who looked a lot like Monica Lewinsky.

‘We learned after she left, it was Monica Lewinsky,’ Carole concluded.  

Radziwill also posted about the recollection on her Instagram, in an effort to plug her article in the magazine.

‘One of the things this year provided was time for me to go through all my old writing. There’s a lot. Finished stories, bits and pieces of stories, notes, half-baked ideas and bits of dialogue. Most written during my time on #RHONY and never published.

‘This one, Searching for Liam Neeson, was written about my “Love, Actually” moment with the star, of which I’m fairly certain he will have no memory of,’ she added.

Carole has been on Bravo’s The Real Housewives Of New York City intermittently since 2012.