NeNe Leakes Says She Should Be as Big as Kim Kardashian, Talks Wendy Williams, Andy Cohen Beef

All of it went down through the second a part of her podcast interview with former “RHOA” govt producer Carlos King on “Actuality with the King,” the place she talked about her allegations of “unfair therapy” that led to a lawsuit she would in the end drop in 2022.

She defined that the rationale Season 13 marked the top of her relationship with Bravo was when she noticed she was solely being provided six episodes of a season that wound up going 21.

In keeping with Leakes, producers informed her they lower her episode rely as a result of she appeared “sad,” which she did not perceive in any respect. “You are going to inform me that I am sad. I am not sad,” she mentioned. “I am sad I acquired six completely satisfied episodes. I imply, should not I get greater than six episodes?”

“Like, why is it a phase-out when there’s different ladies who aren’t the identical complexion as me and began as an authentic housewife?” she added. “Why are they being provided 18 episodes, and I’m being provided six episodes?”

“What did I do?” she continued. “As a result of I do not know something that I’ve carried out ever on this present that no different housewife on this franchise haven’t carried out. I’ve by no means carried out something that nobody else has carried out.”

That final line was in reference to dangerous conduct caught on digital camera, like when she pushed a digital camera operator. She in contrast it to when “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice pushed Andy Cohen, and confronted no obvious profession repercussions.

She additionally mentioned that she would not assume she had the help of her castmates. “All I ever wished, on this present, was to be handled pretty,” she mentioned. “And it pains me and hurts me deeply how I fought for a number of the ladies which are on the present and the way they didn’t battle for me to remain on the present.”

When King tried to get Leakes to call names, she went all-inclusive, saying, “The solid, interval. Like, all these ladies that knew there was unfair therapy.”

She mentioned the solid had a gaggle textual content the place the remainder of her castmates mentioned “that they have been feeling unfair therapy,” however “nobody fought.” She even mentioned that she nonetheless has their messages, purportedly supporting her privately however not publicly.

Regardless of particular beef that has been air publicly between Leakes and Cohen over time, she says she has no “laborious emotions” now. “I am a Sagittarius,” she mentioned by the use of clarification, “so sooner or later, I could also be mad with you, however then I recover from it.”

“You do not have to work collectively to do something,” she added. “However it could be good to both simply to simply work by means of the problems.”

“I am not the form of woman that carries a grudge … ceaselessly,” she continued, expressing her want to fix fences. “I hate that we’re on this place,” she mentioned. “I actually want it was a means for us to seek out our means again to one another as a result of, you understand, life is brief and also you simply do not need to carry ailing emotions for the remainder of your life.”

Regardless of the whole lot that occurred, although, and the way it all went down, Leakes insists she remains to be open to having these conversations with the powers that be at NBCUniversal.

In keeping with the fact star, although, that sentiment just isn’t mutual. “I’ve all the time been open to working it out,” she mentioned. “I’ve all the time been open to having a dialog. They’ve by no means wished to have a dialog or they’ve by no means wished to maneuver ahead in any form of means.”

The truth is, she urged that she believes she’s as an alternative been held again in her profession a number of instances, together with early on when she believed she was on observe to be as huge as Kim Kardashian.

“I felt like they pushed Kim, they usually did not push me,” she informed King. “Kim got here on after me, they usually opened up each door and each alternative for her.” She thought she ought to be as huge, “if not larger,” than Kardashian.

It’s Leakes’ perception that the 2 girls have been held to completely different requirements and she or he was held again deliberately. “They pushed Kim to the entrance and pushed me to the again, and I do not assume that was by likelihood,” she mentioned. “I believe that was the best way they wished it to be.”

For instance, she claimed that although each she and Kardashian held Shoe Dazzle offers, solely Kardashian’s line was promoted. She additionally claimed that through the early seasons of “RHOA” the solid was forbidden from selling their exterior enterprise ventures, whereas the Kardashians made their exterior work main storylines on “Maintaining with the Kardashians” on E! Each Bravo and E! are owned by NBCUniversal.

“I simply assume that they made her extra profitable. And he or she was in a position to get alternatives and stroll by means of doorways that they only didn’t need me to stroll by means of,” mentioned Leakes. For his half, King agreed that she “ought to be on the identical degree as Kim Kardashian.”

One other second that she felt in the end led to misplaced alternative was when she and Wendy Williams a falling out. Leakes believes that it price her a chance to host her personal discuss present, in addition to a friendship.

She defined that all through their relationship, she would have these nice experiences collectively, “being with Wendy, going out and having drinks together with her, going to her lovely place that she had,” after which the discuss present host would “change on me proper on the identical day.”

“Each time it could be like, we’re having a good time after which out of the blue, I would activate the TV and she or he could be saying one thing about me,” Leakes mentioned. “I’d be like, ‘We have been simply having a rattling good time, how did we get right here?'”

The strain reached a crescendo in September 2020, as famous by ET, when Williams referred to as out Leakes on her personal present, in addition to Cohen’s “Watch What Occurs Reside.” She mentioned she had no concept what Leakes would do for cash with out “RHOA” as a result of she hadn’t established herself exterior of the present like “RHONY” alum Bethenny Frankel.

She mentioned that Leakes “likes consideration, dramatic consideration,” and on the identical time was too “boring” to headline a present of her personal. In keeping with Leakes, she was in negotiations on the time to headline a chat present by DebMar-Mercury, Williams’ producers, that out of the blue disappeared.

“Debmar-Mercury pulled my deal and I not had a deal to do a chat present,” Leakes informed King, additionally referencing Williams saying she could not afford to deface a Birkin purse (a viral development on the time). “I’ve had a few individuals come to me to do a chat present, however I’ve by no means been in a position to do a chat present since.”

Leakes mentioned that if she have been ever to return to “RHOA,” she’d be doing it “100% for the followers,” who she mentioned have been asking for her to return again. She joked, “The verify just isn’t a nasty verify, though I believe my verify ought to be larger.”

She additionally did not hesitate to throw some shade on the present solid and the entire franchise. As King identified, “RHOA” went from primary on the community to quantity three after Leakes’ departure, and she or he mentioned it is due to a scarcity of star energy.

“It is disgrace, and it is a disgrace [producers] do not get what it wants,” she informed King. The issue, as she sees it, is that the present would not have an “anchor” persona — this, after all, being her throughout her 12 seasons — and actually would not have any stars in any respect.

“I’ve had the chance to satisfy loads of the ladies which are on the present presently. Simply assembly them in-person they weren’t entertaining,” she defined. “I simply do not see any stars on the present.”

Her favourite solid member is one who simply acquired promoted to the principle solid, Marlo Hampton. On the identical time, she argued, “If Marlo is the most important entertainer on the present, they have to do one thing.”

She would not look like in any respect impressed with mainstays Kandi Burruss, who she referred to as “overrated and overpaid,” and Kenya Moore, who she says is underperforming as a result of she’s additionally tired of the remainder of the solid.

“We all know that Kenya may give. We all know that she will learn. We all know that she will are available and do an entire scene, however we’re not seeing that,” Leakes mentioned. “And I believe that’s as a result of she’s not , as a result of there isn’t any fascinating expertise for her to be eager about.”

As for others within the solid, Leakes described Porsha Williams as somebody with “star potential,” Phaedra Parks as an “entrepreneur star” slightly than a actuality star, and Claudia Jordan as merely “star-less.”