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NeNe Leakes is placing her unhealthy blood with Kim Zolciak-Biermann on maintain to help her former Bravo costar by means of her divorce from Kroy Biermann.
“I simply reached out to her as a result of she reached out to me throughout a time once I was actually going by means of one thing,” NeNe, 55, instructed TMZ on Wednesday, July 5, seemingly referring to the September 2021 dying of her husband, Gregg Leakes.
Whereas NeNe famous that she doesn’t know the way Zolciak-Biermann, 45, “is doing general,” she instructed the outlet, “I must assume she’s taking it laborious. I imply, it’s a divorce. It’s not straightforward.”
Information broke on Might 8 that Zolciak-Biermann filed for divorce from Biermann, 37, after 11 years of marriage. The couple’s separation comes amid monetary woes, because it was reported in Might that the pair allegedly owes the IRS $1.1 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and curiosity.
Zolciak-Biermann — who shares sons Kroy “KJ” Jr., 12, Kash, 10, and twins Kaia and Kane, 9, together with her ex, in addition to daughters Brielle, 26, and Ariana, 21 from earlier relationships — starred alongside NeNe on seasons 1 by means of 5 of RHOA and later returned as a “pal” of the sequence for season 10 in 2017.
Years of drama between NeNe and Zolciak-Biermann got here to a head in October 2017 after Brielle shared a video of cockroaches she noticed on NeNe’s toilet flooring. NeNe accused the then-20-year-old of being “racist” upon sharing the video by way of her Instagram and known as Zolciak-Biermann a “trashy mother.”
“We don’t have roaches! If you happen to discovered 1, u introduced it with u or it fell outta yo funky p—y!” NeNe wrote alongside the since-deleted clip. “Please know I’ll get You all the best way collectively whenever you begin f–king wit [sic] me and mine!”
Zolciak-Biermann then defended her daughter’s actions by way of her personal Instagram, clarifying that Brielle had proven the video to nobody besides her and that she did nothing unsuitable. “She by no means posted this video nor would she!” she wrote on the time. “As you see right here I actually was not keen to ship the video only for rankings for RHOA. END OF STORY.”
Zolciak-Biermann later famous on a March 2018 episode of Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen that Brielle took the video to poke enjoyable at her mother’s concern of bugs. “I used to be so mad when [NeNe] was accusing me of these issues — faux stroke, faux no matter — so I despatched the video,” she instructed host Andy Cohen. “I’m undoubtedly not racist. I don’t affiliate no matter — roach, spider — no matter [with race] in my thoughts.”
Whereas Zolciak-Biermann apologized for his or her social media feud the next month, she continued to accuse NeNe of being a liar. “We each know the reality, we each know that if I wished to, I may have a lawsuit for the lies you’ve got spewed, tweeting out faux texts, implying I’m racist, attacking me bodily, claiming my daughter tweeted unfavorable about you and your own home, we each know these are lies,” she captioned a Instagram pic of them from the RHOA season 10 reunion.
Kim Zolciak and NeNe Leakes Curtis Means/Ace Photos/Shutterstock
NeNe is just not the one RHOA star to ship Zolciak-Biermann well-wishes amid her and Biermann’s messy break up. “It’s terrible to listen to the information of them getting a divorce. I used to be tremendous shocked,” Marlo Hampton stated throughout a Might look on WWHL. “The one factor I may say there … a complete bunch of prayers are wanted and a CPA is required. That’s it.”
Final month, Shereé Whitfield stated she was “shocked” by the previous couple’s breakup and that she thought they had been “going to be [together] endlessly.” She added: “I’ve been involved together with her, and she or he’s not doing nicely. She’s not doing nicely. No, she’s taking it actually unhealthy.”
Zolciak-Biermann is about to make a return on the July 9 episode of RHOA to reunite with Whitfield, 53, Lisa Wu and DeShawn Snow. NeNe, for her half, left the sequence for good after season 12 in 2020.