NeNe Leakes on What Really Ignited Marlo Hampton Fued
The Dancing with the Stars and Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes sets the record straight while doing press rounds to promote her new gig and giving interviews in the process.
In her recent interview with Essence Magazine, CelebNMusic247.com has learned that NeNe says the beef runs deeper than Kenya Moore befriending Marlo Hampton. She also says that Her castmates and Bravo are NOT fans of Hampton becuase she doesn’t fit the RHOA brand.
Now NeNe explains everything about falling out with Marlo below:
“I considered Marlo a friend. She was in my wedding. I supported her when nobody supported her. As in, not one housewife wanted her around. Not Kandi, not Sherée, not Kim Zolciak, not Cynthia, not Phaedra, Andy Cohen, Bravo, or True Entertainment. In fact, Bravo said she was not their brand. That’s how they described it. So, they didn’t want her on the show. On the season prior to this, you didn’t see her on the show at all because nobody wanted her around. I called Bravo; I called True Entertainment trying to ask them to let her be on the show. And all I can say is what you see on the show is not what happened to Marlo and me.”
NeNe sets the record straight on the feud with Marlo and it has nothing to do with Kenya Moore.
NeNe continues:
“No one can step in our relationship and break us up if we’re real friends. So, that’s not it. Our stuff is deeper than Kenya Moore. If you watched my wedding show, you saw we had issues there. I felt like Marlo came in and caused a big divide among the girls. From there other things happened. But I see what they’re trying to portray on the show. She knows, I know, Cynthia Bailey knows what happened between me and Marlo is way deeper. I wish her the best. I think she has a good heart. I do. I’m not interested in going to the media and bashing someone that I once called a friend. I do wish her the best, but I will never be friends with her again.”
NeNe also reveals that she understands how the reality television business works, and she’s completely ok with the producers making her this season’s villain.
NeNe adds:
“I feel like these networks and production companies—I’m just keeping it real—I just feel like they build you up to tear you down. I feel like they’ve done whatever they could do to try to not show me in the best light. There are so many things that happen on the show and they… I don’t even want to talk about editing, because I feel like so many people cry wolf on editing. I’m just saying that they’ve done whatever they could to try and diminish anything that I’ve done and I’m okay with it because I know about reality TV. Every season there has to be a villain, there has to be somebody that straddles the fence, and there has to be a little s**t stirrer. All of those things make the show. They decide who’s going to be the villain this season or who’s going to be this person or that person. We don’t have any control over that. I think that the show has gotten great ratings. As much as people say they don’t like drama, and why don’t you guys stop doing this and that, they continue to tune in. And even more people have tuned in.”
