âGirl, Goodbye!â NeNe Leakes Implies Cynthia Bailey Should Be Axed From âRHOA,' As She Claims âDelusionalâ Kenya Moore âBrings Great Dramaâ To The Show

April 14 2014, Published 6:30 p.m. ET
NeNe Leakes implied her Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star and former close friend Cynthia Bailey should be axed from the hit Bravo reality show -- while diva Kenya Moore should stay!
That was the casting bombshell on Sunday nightâs Watch What Happens Live, when Leakes discussed the season with host Andy Cohen following the RHOA finale.
When asked who should get chopped from the show, Leakes first said sheâd get in trouble for giving her opinionâand told Cohen sheâd tell him off camera.
But when Cohen suggested Moore, Leakes said no way!
âYou can ask anybody that knows me, I personally do not like Kenya but I am all for the good of the show⌠and I think she is good for the show because sheâs drama. She doesnât take her medication before shooting,â smirked Leakes, 46.
âIf I was the creator of the show, I would have a ding dong like Kenya on the show. She brings great drama. I think sheâs delusional. I think her medication is much needed.â
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Then Leakes hinted that it was time for the âbalancedâ person on RHOA âto be gone and there should be another balance to pop in. Iâve been on the show a very long time and I donât think itâs fair when one person gets to tell all this about their story and their children and their husband and their life and somebody else is over here holding back or pretending to have a life that they donât have.â
The RHOA alpha dog added, âPeople that do the show season to season and talk about the same thing over and over and over again, itâs like, âGirl, goodbye!â â
Cohen said it sounded like she was talking about Bailey, and Leakes replied, âI would have to say-- I didnât bring Cynthiaâs name up, you did--Cynthia is okay. Itâs not like sheâs really bringing anything to the show. Just to be honest, she talks about the Bailey agency and Bar One. Itâs not like she and husband Peter Thomas are really talking about anything.
âI think Cynthiaâs a good friend but she blows wherever the wind blows.â Then Leakes, said with disgust, again, âGirl, bye!â
When Cohen probed deeper about how their friendship had faltered, Leakes said, âCynthia was my friend. Thatâs what I thought.
âWhen you have a friend and they do something wrong and something you donât like, I donât think you align yourself with the enemy. I think you stick with your friend and say, âLook, we were friends. I liked you. You did this and I did not like that.â But at the end of the day, youâre not going to align yourself with the enemy. To me, it just says youâre weak.â
In Leakesâ opinion, former model Bailey, who got upset when Leakes called her husband Peter a [expletive] on RHOA, has aligned herself with Moore. Cohen mentioned that Bailey sat next to Moore at the soon-to-be aired reunion show.
âShe totally sat there with Kenya like her and Kenya were good Judys,â Leakes remarked, using a slang term for lesbians.
It was odd to Leakes because, âKenya came on the show from the beginning and blow Cynthiaâs head off.â
âWeâre just not cool anymore,â she shrugged of the modeling agency owner. âThatâs just how I roll.â
âPeople would like to think Cynthia is innocent. Sheâs not.â
Leakes admitted things deteriorated when she told Thomas he was acting like a [expletive]âbut pointed out she had apologized. However, since that episode aired, âshe stopped calling me, I stopped calling her.â
Leakes, who is now appearing on Dancing with the Stars, also told Cohen sheâs doing fine after being diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, blood clots in her lungs, which was dramatized on the RHOA finale.
Regarding the explosive reunion show, which will begin airing next week and, as Breaking Celebrity News has revealed (and a Bravo clip on Cohenâs show confirmed) included a physical fight between Moore and Porsha Williams, Leakes revealed,âI think that sometimes people âtryâ other people over and over and over again. Personally, I donât like Kenya. I felt like Kenya violated Porsha over and over again. She got up and she confronted Kenya.â

The Watch What Happens Live clip showed Moore saying to Williams, âIâm talking [expletive], shut up,â before all hell broke loose.
Leakes also said her feud with former friend Marlo Hampton occurred because she didnât tell her she was filming RHOA scenes with Moore.
Leakes believed that was shady, and also thought Moore hung out with Hampton to make the Glee actress angry.
Addressing her embarrassing meltdown at Mooreâs charity event, which also caused conflict with Baileyâs husband Peter, Leakes told Cohen, âShe used my name to get guests there. Kenya didnât donate a dime.â
Leakes explained she would have been willing to donate $20,000 to a charity chosen by Moore if the beauty queen had matched her donation, but she snorted, âShe ainât got $20,000, honey, to match!â


