Requesting regard. Nene Leakes demands she isn’t tossing a “temper tantrum'” over her lawsuit with Bravo — she’s just retaliating.
“I’ve been blacklisted,” the previous Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 54, guaranteed in a proclamation to TMZ on Monday, May 2. “On the off-chance that you haven’t performed in over three years when out of nowhere you’re working and pursued, then abruptly you’re not working, it’s being blacklisted. I haven’t created any issues on any sets. Everyone I’ve at any point worked with, and I’ve had a decent work relationship with aside from this gathering.”
Leakes first joined the cast of Real Housewives in 2008, preceding reporting her takeoff in season 7. She got back to the establishment for seasons 10, 11 and 12 preceding all time, leaving the unscripted TV drama in September 2020.
“I have settled on the hard and truly challenging choice not to be the ap speciality of Real Housewives of Atlanta season 13,” the style originator said using her YouTube channel at that point. “It was anything but a simple choice for me. … There has been a ton of feeling flying on the two sides. I’m simply glad to such an extent that I can that I was a piece of a type that opened entryways for Black outfit unscripted TV dramas.”
In an explanation to Us Weekly at that point, the TV organisation wished Leakes “the very best in her future undertakings.” They added, “She’s been instrumental since the beginning and will really be missed, and perhaps one day she’ll hold the peach once more.”
When asked whether she was searching for remuneration from the lawsuit, The New Normal alum told TMZ said she “was unable to talk on that,” yet in the cases, she was going for the gold. show of her own on the organisation was “so crazy.”
The TV character added:
- “We’re discussing separation.
- We’re not discussing a show.”
- She told the power source.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with temper tantrums and needing a show. I never needed my own show. At the end of the day, I had numerous chances to have one — that is not it. It will be it’s segregation, that.”
The Glee alum’s assertion closely follows her lawsuit against NBCUniversal, Bravo, creation organisations True Entertainment and Truly Original and leader maker Andy Cohen.
Leakes recorded the case in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2022, as indicated by reports got by Us.
“NBC, Bravo and True Original cultivate a corporate and work environment culture in which racially-harsh and unseemly way of behaving is endured — on the off chance that not, energised,” the previous Bravo character asserted the lawful papers.
At the documenting hour, the Chicago star expressed to TMZ that “the objectives are to stop oppression Black ladies,” noticing that “no one needs to go to work consistently as a Black lady with light hair and the top of the partnership call you a white lady. In this way, stop segregation.”
The New York local additionally blamed the previous costar Kim Zolciak-Biermann for bigoted comments that went ignored. After Leakes joined the Real Housewives, Zolciak-Biermann, 43, purportedly “sustained a hostile generalisation about African-Americans,” the court report says.
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The jokester likewise asserted her interests were disregarded at that point, despite being vocal about the issue to leaders at the organisation.
“From the day the series started recording, NeNe was the objective of fundamental prejudice from co-star Kim Zolciak-Biermann, which was endured by Bravo chief maker Andy Cohen and different leaders,” Leakes’ attorney David deRubertis said in a proclamation in April 2022.
