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NeNe Leakes Believes Cynthia Bailey ‘Had A Hand’ In Her ‘RHOA’ Firing: ‘I Know A Lot Of Things’

<p><em>Real Housewives of Atlanta <&sol;em>OG <strong>NeNe Leakes<&sol;strong> is getting real about her opinions on some of her fellow Bravolebrities&comma; and she isn&&num;8217&semi;t holding back on how she feels about <strong>Shereé Whitfield<&sol;strong>&comma; <strong>Kenya Moore<&sol;strong>&comma; and <strong>Cynthia Bailey<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From suggesting that Shereé is dull to speculating that Cynthia played a part in getting her booted&comma; NeNe went IN&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;nene-leakes-return-real-housewives-of-atlanta-rhoa&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Resurrected Peach&quest; NeNe Leakes Says She&&num;8217&semi;d Return To RHOA &&num;8216&semi;For The Fans&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CvGIlQfrBui" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">NeNe Calls Herself The &&num;8220&semi;Underdog&&num;8221&semi; &amp&semi; Says Shereé Is &&num;8220&semi;Not The Most Exciting Person&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>NeNe&&num;8217&semi;s commentary came during the first part of her sit-down on <strong>Carlos King<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;w&lowbar;zcME9HHyw" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Reality with the King<&sol;a><&sol;em> podcast&comma; and she started by going in on Shereé&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After reminiscing about some old drama&comma; NeNe pushed back against Whitfield being described as the &&num;8220&semi;last-standing OG&comma;&&num;8221&semi; as she declared&comma;<strong><em> &&num;8220&semi;There was nowhere else to go&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t about last-standing&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s the last one they could get on the show&period; There was nowhere else to go&period; The people who were the stars of the show were literally me and Kim Zolciak&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>NeNe went on to say that while Shereé &&num;8220&semi;played her part&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she doesn&&num;8217&semi;t think the network &&num;8220&semi;valued&&num;8221&semi; her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I think Shereé played her role or played her part in the show&period; I just don&&num;8217&semi;t think the network or the production really valued her that much&period; They felt like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;We don&&num;8217&semi;t really need her that much&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>NeNe added&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;I mean&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s not the most exciting person in the world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1683844083683557377" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Staying on the subject of the early days of <em>RHOA<&sol;em>&comma; NeNe remarked that she was essentially the &&num;8220&semi;underdog&&num;8221&semi; of season 1&comma; and many of her fellow OGs banked on the idea that viewers wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t like NeNe&period; However&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It just didn&&num;8217&semi;t work like that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;First season&comma; I was the underdog&period; I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t sure if I would be liked&period; I think Shereé&comma; along with Kim and the rest of the girls&comma; thought&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Oh&comma; please&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re gonna love us&comma; and they&&num;8217&semi;re not gonna like her&period; And it just didn&&num;8217&semi;t work like that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cu2eokaRVkK" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">NeNe Leakes Says Kenya Moore Made <em>RHOA <&sol;em>More Focused On Storylines<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Shereé wasn&&num;8217&semi;t the only popular <em>RHOA <&sol;em>star who was the target of Ms&period; NeNe Leakes&&num;8217&semi; shade&comma; as Kenya got it too&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NeNe stated that the show began to change &&num;8220&semi;once Kenya came on&&num;8221&semi; in season 5&comma; as it &&num;8220&semi;started to be&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Let&&num;8217&semi;s create our storyline&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To emphasize this point about Kenya&&num;8217&semi;s impact&comma; NeNe declared&comma;<strong><em> &&num;8220&semi;People started to create storylines and pretend to have boyfriends&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1683847970448621569" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nonetheless&comma; after Carlos later declares that Kenya and <strong>Porsha Williams<&sol;strong> &&num;8220&semi;saved the show&&num;8221&semi; after joining in season 5&comma; NeNe confirms&comma; &&num;8220&semi;They were great additions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; she was sure to note that she never saw Kenya as the &&num;8220&semi;star&&num;8221&semi; of <em>RHOA<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Kenya is great on the show&comma; and she was a great addition to the show when she came on&period; And I think the show needs Kenya&comma; by the way&period; But I never saw her as <i data-stringify-type&equals;"italic">the <&sol;i>star of <i data-stringify-type&equals;"italic">Real Housewives of Atlanta<&sol;i>&period; Ever&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CtLAtePshiK" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">NeNe Accuses Cynthia Of Trying To Stop Her Bravo Bag<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Finally&comma; NeNe also honed in on Ms&period; Cynthia Bailey&comma; noting that she initially &&num;8220&semi;didn&&num;8217&semi;t think that &lbrack;Cynthia&rsqb; was &&num;8216&semi;Housewife material&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While she commented similarly about <strong>Phaedra Parks<&sol;strong>&comma; she didn&&num;8217&semi;t go <em>in <&sol;em>like she did with Cynthia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although NeNe Leakes declared she misses their &&num;8220&semi;sister&lbrack;ly&rsqb;&&num;8221&semi; friendship&comma; she doubts they&&num;8217&semi;ll ever reconcile&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I just know some of the things that she has done behind the scenes that I could just never&comma; ever&comma; ever respect&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cu-jTetrF2s" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After being prompted to give further detail&comma; NeNe accused Cynthia of attempting to interfere with her Bravo bag&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;She was definitely trying to stop &lbrack;my bag&rsqb; 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