By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
“Real Housewives of Atlanta” star NeNe Leakes is without a doubt one of the biggest stars to come from the franchise, and it’s surely because she’s managed to turn her time on the reality show into real acting gigs. NeNe is still a recurring star on “Glee,” and although her other comedy “The New Normal” was cancelled, the reality star was able to pick up another show with her wedding special “I Dream of NeNe,” a series also picked up by Bravo. However, NeNe’s success was no match for her marriage, and she and Gregg ended up divorcing just as her career began to take off. NeNe recently claimed they called it quits because Gregg had a hard time adjusting to her success and she even revealed that Gregg was not being faithful either.
Despite their issues, with the help of counseling, NeNe and Gregg were able to tie the knot for a second time, but critics of the reality star have suspected that she only divorced for a storyline on RHOA. Even NeNe’s own sister put her on blast on Facebook and claimed NeNe’s divorce from Gregg was so the couple could secure their own spinoff show.
In a recent interview with the Tom Joyner Morning Show, NeNe clapped back at the speculation and said she didn’t need to fake a divorce from Gregg to continue to be the star on “Real Housewives of Atlanta.” She says:
“I didn’t mean to do that on ‘The Housewives.’ You see I signed up for multiple years for ‘Housewives.’ You see, I’m still here. When I started working on ‘Glee’ and “The New Normal,’ I didn’t need to do anything for my profile. My profile was what it was. Greg and I broke up for real. I’m a mom and divorce is very hard. It’s very difficult. I was heartbroken. I would never do that for a profile. Why would I need to do that? I lived all these years as Nene Leakes, before a camera ever rolled in my house. I was married for real. I gave birth, for real, to his child. I would never do that.”
I guess NeNe. I just hope it works out the second time around.
Well some people say she divorced him to protect herself from his debt collectors. She hasn’t denied that yet. LOL.
Well she can’t be mad people assumed that because nowadays everyone is faking it for TV.
I hate the blonde hair on her…
I hope everything works out! Gregg is like the only husband I like on that show!
It’s so funny because maybe a year or two years ago Nene was bragging she was a real actress on a show and was going to the next level and had everybody thinking she was going to leave RHOA and Bravo in the dust. Fast forward now her show is cancelled and she is still on RHOA and talking about her marriage to keep her relevant. LOL!
Good luck to them both. I still think they divorced to protect NeNe’s money though.
Liar, liar pants on fire.
I am kind of bored with RHOA. Anyone else?
I second that. It’s not just RHOA though, all these reality shows are getting boring to me. Did you watch Breaking Bad?
I didn’t. I heard it was really good though. Worth a watch?
Yes! It was one of the best shows on TV. The series finale was last night.
I heard it was good too. After last night and Twitter was popping I decided to start watching it. I’ll let yall know if I like it or not.
cool thanks
Why are the comments still rolling in on that Kim post? LOL. Anyway, I think they divorced to protect their reality TV money. It was a smart idea but it’s still trifling too.
Every now and then the Kardashian camp’s paid commentators come to UB to do damage control. We figured that out months ago because they take it way too seriously. It’s best to ignore them and not even respond. They do it to a lot of sites. Smoke and mirrors.
They don’t even remember to change up their names I see. LOL at that girl they caught using like three different names to cosign herself on there.
LOL yall Kim does have a few fans. 🙂