Was Mama Joyce Right? Kandi Burruss’ Wedding Eve Drama With Todd Tucker: He Storms Off When She Tells Him They Aren’t Getting Married Without A Prenup
June 23 2014, Published 8:00 a.m. ET
Kandi Burruss’ elaborate Coming to America-themed wedding with fiancé Todd Tucker almost didn’t happen, viewers learned on Sunday night’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kandi’s Wedding, as many were left wondering if Burruss’ disapproving Mama Joyce -- who claimed that Tucker wanted Burruss’ money -- was right after all when he dragged his feet on signing the prenup.
As the episode opened, Burruss told the cameras her prenuptial agreement with Tucker would quash Mama Joyce’s talk about the TV producer being an opportunist.
However, by episode’s end, Tucker’s hesitation about the prenup put the wedding at risk!
The day before the wedding, during the rehearsal, Tucker showed up saying they still hadn’t worked out the prenup and Burruss got word that he hadn’t signed the agreement prepared by her lawyer.
“I’m so mad at Todd right now,” she told the cameras.
Meanwhile, Tucker sighed to a friend, “She acts like she a football player and I’m some groupie. If she didn’t do this so last minute, we wouldn’t be in this situation.”
They had a talk and Burruss told Tucker about her legal team, “They have suggested we call our wedding off.”
She told him flatly, “We’re not going to get married if we don’t have no prenup.”
But Tucker didn’t like the document because, as his own lawyer Randy Kessler had pointed out in an earlier scene, it mandated that if he got sick or disabled and the marriage ended, he would get nothing from Burruss.
According to the document, Tucker would also get zero if Burruss died during the marriage, and Kessler thought they should have had at least four weeks to look over the document — instead of the two days Kandi gave them.
“My advice is, this is not a sufficient document,” Kessler said, saying Tucker shouldn’t sign it! “You gotta protect yourself.”
Tucker was particularly shocked at the proviso that if they divorced, he’d have just 30 days to vacate her house.
“Is this sh*t personal, or is it business?” Tucker asked Burruss. “If we don’t work out, I have to get out of the [expletive] house in 30 days? If I need some time to find a place, if we have a child?”
But Burruss said his attorney’s notes were all about money!
“I work, you work. What is it we’re debating here?” she told her boyfriend.
He finally said, “I don’t want your f*cking money, [expletive]