In a recent interview with Eurweb, Luenell actually calls NeNe a bully and claims she feels the reality star’s response was nasty.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
What do you think of Nene’s comment calling you an “old hater,” and that, “if you stop being salty and get out of your feelings you might can start opening up for me.”
Luenell: It’s mean and fu*ked up. It’s cruel and I’m not the grandmother around here, she is. We may be just a few years a part. My daughter is in college. She doesn’t have any children. I didn’t call her any names, she did, which evoked her fans to follow suit and call me names as well. I never called her any names. I wished her well. But she’s made a career out of being mean to people. She’s a very mean-spirited woman. I don’t think that bullying is fashionable. But we live in a bullying society right now. Social media has made bullying cool because they can do it under the guise of anonymity. The same people who grin in your face can go home and write the most veil stuff about you. I come from Oakland, California. I was born in Arkansas. When we have confrontations about things, we deal with it face to face. I’m not trying to brawl with anybody in the streets, but I certainly won’t back down from a verbal confrontation. I don’t clap back. I didn’t write anything about Nene. I stated exactly how I felt. She stated her truth and we were done with it. I didn’t go out and court these interviews. People have reached out to me. So, what she said to me I thought was uncalled for.
I would love to say, ‘That’ll be the day’ that I have to come to Nene Leakes for work, but I know how this business is and a year from now, I very well may be auditioning for a part on a NeNe Leakes production. I would rather chew off my left arm but I’m not so stupid enough to pass up work, and if that’s work – whatever. She may be auditioning for me someday. I hope to God that happens. But the fact that she said ‘call me,’ as if I have her number and can do that, that’s a lie and some bulls**t. We don’t call each other. We don’t know each other like that. So that was all just shade and being snarky, which is what she has made her whole brand of lifestyle about. You don’t get 26 years worth of fans being messy like that. I want to see where her fans are in 26 years. I know where mine will be, right where they are right now.
Where do you see this beef with Nene going?
Luenell: I hope within a week or so that it all dies down, but ultimately I would just like people who have worked hard in the industry to get their just do. I would like to see this reality stuff die down and let’s get back to good programming and television and theater. I’m sure that the people she worked with on Broadway were not standing on their hands excited because NeNe Leakes came to do Broadway with them, when there’s people that are trained thespians that worked all their lives to get there. I’m sure they weren’t excited about that. But she came and I understand that she did well and then she was gone. But that’s the whole point, you come, you get this money and you make this ruckus and then you’re gone. Your heart isn’t there. The people who work on Broadway, their heart is there. That’s their life. They worked all their life to get there. That’s their dream. I know that being on television and famous is NeNe’s dream, and God bless her, she’s achieved her dream, but you don’t have to step on people to do that. You don’t have to be mean and hurtful to people to do that. That is not the makings of a long-lasting career.
Do you regret making the initial comment?
Luenell: I do not regret making the comment. I stand in my truth, but I want to just add this: people act like saying that I’m salty or jealous is a sin. If you work ten years at a company and some little yuppie comes in and in three weeks later they become your supervisor, you are salty about that. Saying that out loud, I don’t see what’s so bad about that. Human beings have feelings. I simply sad what I feel and what a lot of people feel about what’s going on with these reality stars when it comes to taking jobs from viable actors these days. What I do have anguish about is, maybe I presented it in personal way. It really isn’t personal against Nene. it was personal against the industry that she promotes and is a part of. People are idolizing these quick, stir-fry, flash in the pan people who are not the people who have put in the work. It’s all about who is on TV right now and whose got the most Instagram followers. Anybody can get money. I don’t knock anyone’s grind. But when you step into my lane, and you’re coming into the area where I live, I feel like I have the right to say whatever I want to about it. I did it. I don’t regret it. I’ll do it again.
Is her salty a-s serious? The only nasty person and bully in this situation is her jealous a-s. Nene was minding her business and her hating a-s was the one who came for her. Don’t pretend you’re standing up for one group and then turn around and bash another. Bottom line is she’s mad she ain’t getting money like a reality star, the one group she feels is beneath her. F-ck outta here.
How do you start a beef and then play victim when you get dragged? Girl stop it.
That’s what I’m saying. But it’s always the messy people themselves that like to complain when someone puts them in their place for being messy.
So Luenell complains about people using social media to bully other people, but she used social media to get this whole thing going in the first place? Yeah, she’s a hypocrite. In more ways than one.
Said very well…(hand claps)
And once again, she just sounds jealous. And actually saying it’s ok to be jealous is pretty sad. It’s not ok to be jealous. If you can’t be happy for another person who is doing well, you can’t question why you’re not. Bitter people aren’t rewarded for their bitterness.
Well said. It’s just like wishing bad on someone else. In the end it will just reverse on you and that person who wanted to fail will actually succeed while you struggle.
I have to really shake my head at Luenell and the people who agree with this. Nene didn’t come for this woman first. That’s the first point. The second point is how does Luenell think actors feel about comedians taking their work? And can we really get mad at people for finding ways to make money? I think only broke and unsuccessful people have that mindset. And that explains why Luenell is where she is today. I may not understand why people like Kim K or Amber are famous but if I had the same opportunity to make money, I’d take it as well. How the hell are you out here hating on people for finding ways to eat? Sit down and get you some business.
LOL. I didn’t even know this woman’s name before all this. I always thought she wasn’t funny in the few movies I’ve seen her in. She can go back under that rock she crawled from and Nene will continue to get Broadway, RHOA, comedy tour and E checks. #shrugs
A bully calling out another bully. Nene should have paid her irrelevant a-s dust.
I can’t stand people like this. How do you look down on reality stars when they are more successful than you? I think that’s the real issue. Luenell can’t believe Nene is where she is today and it burns her. She can try to spin it all she wants but I see right through the bullsh-t. Haters always like to pretend they are so deep and concerned with sh-t but the truth is they are just mad as hell they ain’t successful and need someone to take it out on. I’m glad Nene deleted her response and I hope she never talks about this washed up comedian again. None of us were even thinking about her until she used Nene’s name for relevancy.
Maybe it’s just me but if I was Luenell, I would try to hook up with some of these reality stars and find out who their agents are so I can start booking the same opportunities. Why burn a bridge? She’s not very business savvy.
*blank stare* I have no time for a grown woman who decided to be messy crying victim when she gets the read she deserves. And honestly Nene could have been a lot nastier with her clapback. And I wouldn’t even be mad if she was.
That’s what I’m saying! Nene didn’t even go all the way in and she could have!
I’m not a fan of Nene but this woman is full of it. Reality stars have every right to venture into other things if they want to. You have to be a very classist fool to think otherwise. How would the average person feel if some stranger gave them limits and told them they can only choose one career or path in life? Nene switching over into different fields like acting and comedy is her right.
Spoken like a true hater.
Of course.
This is like coming for Kenya for using her RHOA platform to start her businesses. People need to grow up and stop expecting reality stars not to capitalize off their fame!!!!!
Or you could just be happy that another woman is out here killing it and living her dreams. Damn.
She probably really felt some kind of way after those articles came out about Nene’s tour selling out. I think a lot of people expected it to flop because they don’t like Nene and they imagine no one else does either.
smh
She’s really bitter.
Haters gonna hate. And a victim she is not. Bye.
You can sit back and hate or figure out a way to get your money up.
And nowhere in that entire thesis did she address her supporting Wendy Williams and Claudia who are clearly not comediennes. No matter how she tries to spin this it smacks of straight up jealousy and hateration towards Nene!
These out of work entertainers kill me constantly looking down on reality stars but will be so quick to accept a deal and do a reality show which focus on them “revamping their career.” If Luenell got her own reality show and it was a hit resulting in her career skyrocketing how would she feel if someone did to her what she did to Nene?