NeNe Leakes claims Bravo execs “blacklisted” and “silenced” her for talking up towards the community that helped her rise to fame.
When TMZ asked the previous “Actual Housewives of Atlanta” star, 54, why she only recently filed her discrimination lawsuit towards the businesses behind the hit actuality present, she stated she really “felt prefer it was the precise time … a couple of years in the past.”
“However I used to be always being retaliated towards, being blacklisted, not in a position to work, being silenced, and so, you already know, it was troublesome to do.”
Leakes didn’t go into element as to how Bravo allegedly “blacklisted” or “silenced” her.
Nonetheless, she reaffirmed her feedback to TMZ by describing herself on her Instagram bio as a “BLACKLISTED TV PERSONALITY & ENTREPRENEUR” and on Twitter as “BLACKLISTED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH & NOT WANTING TO BE ABUSED ANYMORE! RECEIPTSSS.”
A rep for the “RHOA” alum didn’t return requests for additional touch upon her allegations.
Chatting with TMZ, Leakes additionally shut down rumors she filed the discrimination lawsuit as a result of she didn’t get her personal spinoff present, saying these claims are “ridiculous.”
She additionally curiously famous — regardless of saying minutes earlier that she had been blacklisted — that she had “many alternatives” to have her personal present however that she “by no means” wished one.
“It’s discrimination — that’s simply what it’s,” the truth star added.
Leakes — who was a sequence common on Ryan Murphy’s “The New Regular” from 2012 to 2013 and co-hosted “Vogue Police” from 2016 to 2017 — stated she realized she had been blacklisted when she was closely “wanted” for years after which “immediately” discovered herself “not working.”
Other than holding her again in her profession, Leakes, who’s black, additionally alleged within the lawsuit filed in a federal court docket in Atlanta on April 20 that she complained to executives about years of racist remarks from fellow “Housewife” Kim Zolciak-Biermann, who’s white, however that solely she suffered penalties.
The go well with alleges Zolciak-Biermann, 43, made “racially offensive and stereotypical” feedback in regards to the new house of “RHOA” star Kandi Burruss, calling her neighborhood “ghetto” and perpetuating a racial stereotype in an offensive remark about whether or not Burruss wanted a swimming pool.
Nonetheless, Burruss, 45, stated in a current interview on SiriusXM’s “The Clay Cane Show” that she doesn’t agree with Leakes’ allegations, noting that her former co-star would boast she was the “highest paid” on their present.
“You may’t brag about being paid probably the most out of anyone after which say that they’re not treating you proper,” the previous Xscape member added.
In the meantime, Leakes’ lawyer David deRubertis argued in a press release, “From the day the sequence started filming, NeNe was the goal of systemic racism from co-star Kim Zolciak-Biermann, which was tolerated by Bravo government producer Andy Cohen and different executives.”
NBCUniversal, Bravo, manufacturing corporations True Leisure and Actually Unique, executives from the businesses and Cohen, 53, are named within the lawsuit, however not Zolciak-Biermann.
Zolciak-Biermann has but to touch upon Leakes declare, however she did publish about consuming margaritas at Chili’s after the lawsuit was filed.
Bravo didn’t instantly return requests for touch upon Leakes’ remarks.
