NeNe Leakes held nothing back during an appearance on Carlos King’s Reality with The King podcast.
In the interview, released in two parts, the reality star shared that she and Wendy Williams were quite close but was “very confused” when the former talk show host would call her out on her now-canceled show, The Wendy Williams Show.
“There [are] many times that I would call Wendy, but you also have to know that I was one of her friends that was on the inside, so I saw a lot of things and I would take it with a grain of salt where other people would take it personal,” she told King during the interview. “So Wendy saying that, I knew then something’s going on with Wendy at that moment because she wouldn’t say that in the other case. So my friendship with Wendy was off and on a lot. I would have to say that I liked her a lot and when she was fun, she was really fun. I enjoyed going to New York, being with Wendy, going out and having drinks with her, going to her beautiful place that she had…”
The 55-year-old Atlanta personality explained that Williams would go hot and cold so often, adding that she would “switch on me right on the same day.”
“I don’t know what happened but [she would] change and be something else or do something else,” Leakes said. “Every time it would be like, we’re having a great time and then suddenly, I’d turn on the TV and she would be saying something about me. I would be like, ‘We were just having a damn good time, how did we get here?'”
In 2020, Williams criticized Leakes for leaving the highly-coveted Real Housewives of Atlanta franchise, stating that she hadn’t established herself as “a legitimate multimillion-dollar situation” like Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel.
“NeNe likes attention, dramatic attention,” Williams said on an episode of Watch What Happens Live adding that she was “boring.”
Leakes would later state on a YouTube video that she and Williams were no longer friends.
“Wendy, for you: Spend more of your time trying to figure out how you can drain your enormously large legs and feet, OK?” she said. “As opposed to worrying about my family and what we are doing.”
She later told ET that Williams could not keep her name out of her mouth.
“I mean, I don’t know why that wouldn’t upset anyone else,” Leakes said. “I guess maybe I’m different. But she talks about me every week on her show, or every month on her show, and then she went away and went on hiatus while we were in this pandemic. She came back and since I announced my exit, she’s talked about me on three different occasions. I mean, and she’s only been back I think a week, maybe two weeks.”
She continued: “I don’t know why she or anyone else thinks that it is OK to go on to your national television show and bash a person over and over and over again,” she said. “Now, maybe I’m a hot topic, but every single week, or every month, you need to be very negative towards me. That does not feel good over here. I am human. And I deserve more and better than that. It’s not right to do that to somebody every single week. You wouldn’t want that done to you. It feels like I am being devalued by two people [Cohen and Williams] who seem to be intimidated and that’s not right.”
