NeNe Leakes Calls Out Bravo’s Mistreatment of Black ‘Housewives’

*NeNe Leakes spoke to fellow Bravolebrity Bethenny Frankel about how Black “Housewives” aren’t treated fairly by the network. 

During her two-part conversation with Frankel on her podcast “Just B,” Leakes said Season 11’s episode “Bye Wig, Hello Drama”  was a defining moment as it made her realize Black housewives were treated differently than their white counterparts by the production team, TheWrap reports. 

Leakes said she felt disrespected when the crew disobeyed her wishes not to film in her closet during the episode. 

“I told production I don’t think I should have this party,” Leakes explained to Frankel. “Well, they were gung-ho with having the party because it was an all-cast scene, and they’d already planned for all the girls to be at my house for this particular scene.”

In an attempt to prevent a cameraman from filming inside her closet, she grabbed his shirt and ultimately received backlash from production.

“There’s so many girls that are doing things,” Leakes said. “You had Teresa flipping a table. You had Teresa pushing Andy [Cohen] down. You had girls busting glasses. You got people doing all kinds of stuff. But me grabbing the camera guy’s shirt. They act as if it was so freaking major.”

Leakes also pointed out Kim Zolciak-Biermann’s absence during cast trips as part of her reasons why she feels Black housewives aren’t treated equally.

“There was a lot of unfair treatment happening to me, unfair treatment. During a period of years, things were happening. For instance, let me give you an example. We are a cast of Black women and we have a white woman on our show, she doesn’t travel, we travel. She doesn’t shoot, we shoot. There was a lot of different treatment happening on the show and I was more of the outspoken one, the one that was in the front. Me and the girls would talk about it and then we would say, ‘You know it’s unfair that Kim doesn’t have to take any cast trips, like none of us want to take cast trips,’” Leakes explained.

When it comes to her former boss Andy Cohen, Leakes told Frankle that she felt like he never really liked her. 

“I feel sad for a person who doesn’t have a forgiving heart,” Leakes said of Cohen. “I’m not worried about him.”

She added: “I don’t want any beef. I just want it to be clean, and I’ve also asked to even— I’ve tried to find a way for he and I to sit down and talk, but he’s never wanted to do that.”

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