NeNe Leakes promises Bravo execs “blacklisted” and “silenced” her for talking up versus the community that aided her increase to fame.
When TMZ requested the previous “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star, 54, why she just a short while ago filed her discrimination lawsuit in opposition to the firms guiding the strike reality show, she claimed she actually “felt like it was the suitable time … a handful of yrs ago.”
“But I was frequently getting retaliated in opposition to, becoming blacklisted, not able to function, remaining silenced, and so, you know, it was challenging to do.”
Leakes did not go into detail as to how Bravo allegedly “blacklisted” or “silenced” her.
Having said that, she reaffirmed her responses to TMZ by describing herself on her Instagram bio as a “BLACKLISTED Television Character & ENTREPRENEUR” and on Twitter as “BLACKLISTED FOR TELLING THE Truth of the matter & NOT Wanting TO BE ABUSED Any longer! RECEIPTSSS.”
A rep for the “RHOA” alum did not return requests for further more remark on her allegations.
Speaking to TMZ, Leakes also shut down rumors she submitted the discrimination lawsuit for the reason that she did not get her have spinoff present, saying all those statements are “ridiculous.”
She also curiously observed — even with indicating minutes previously that she experienced been blacklisted — that she had “many opportunities” to have her possess clearly show but that she “never” desired just one.
“It’s discrimination — that’s just what it is,” the truth star included.
Leakes — who was a series regular on Ryan Murphy’s “The New Normal” from 2012 to 2013 and co-hosted “Fashion Police” from 2016 to 2017 — reported she recognized she had been blacklisted when she was closely “sought after” for a long time and then “suddenly” found herself “not working.”
Apart from holding her again in her profession, Leakes, who is black, also alleged in the lawsuit filed in a federal court docket in Atlanta on April 20 that she complained to executives about yrs of racist remarks from fellow “Housewife” Kim Zolciak-Biermann, who is white, but that only she endured outcomes.
The suit alleges Zolciak-Biermann, 43, designed “racially offensive and stereotypical” responses about the new house of “RHOA” star Kandi Burruss, contacting her community “ghetto” and perpetuating a racial stereotype in an offensive comment about whether Burruss necessary a swimming pool.
Even so, Burruss, 45, stated in a new interview on SiriusXM’s “The Clay Cane Show” that she doesn’t concur with Leakes’ allegations, noting that her former co-star would boast she was the “highest paid” on their present.
“You just can't brag about remaining paid the most out of anybody and then say that they are not managing you right,” the previous Xscape member included.
Meanwhile, Leakes’ lawyer David deRubertis argued in a statement, “From the working day the collection began filming, NeNe was the concentrate on of systemic racism from co-star Kim Zolciak-Biermann, which was tolerated by Bravo executive producer Andy Cohen and other executives.”
NBCUniversal, Bravo, output companies Genuine Entertainment and Actually Authentic, executives from the providers and Cohen, 53, are named in the lawsuit, but not Zolciak-Biermann.
Zolciak-Biermann has but to comment on Leakes declare, but she did submit about ingesting margaritas at Chili’s soon after the lawsuit was filed.
Bravo did not right away return requests for comment on Leakes’ remarks.
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