On Sunday, the “roach nest” fiasco between “Real Housewives of Atlanta” vets NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak-Biermann played out on the hit show.
The incident occurred back in October when Leakes posted a video Kim’s daughter, Brielle Biermann had taken a few months earlier of black bugs crawling in Leakes’ home.
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In addition to the video, Leakes called the mother-daughter duo racists, accusing Kim of using “black folks for her come up.”
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“Kim & her daughter oops whole family are racists! What her daughter did at my home…was racist, learned behavior etc,” Leakes said in the post. “Kim is a calculating bio-polar racist with a horrible mouth, who uses black folks for her come up.”
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However, in Sunday’s episode, Leakes clarified her statements. Though she still stood by her attack, she claimed her comments were made “purely out of anger.”
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“That word ‘roach’ ain’t the word I needed to hear her saying,” Leakes said. “It sounds very racist when you are speaking to an African-American person and talk about roaches. Because people feel like you associated that with the ghetto or trash. Black people do not receive that very well.”
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“Do I believe Kim is a racist? Some of the things she has said would definitely make you go, ‘Hmmm,’” Leakes said, just before addressing her attack on Kim’s 21-year-old daughter. “I think Brielle is a beautiful girl. I’ve known this girl from growing up. Your kid cannot talk to an adult using foul language and expect me to say nothing back,” she said.
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“What she did was to mean and to be vicious and to be hateful. It’s heartbreaking,” Leakes said.
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In the meantime, Kim claimed she was the victim in the situation, as she received death threats for Leakes’ claims.
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“We’ve had to hire security. I’ve had people come to the gate at my house,” she claimed. “She wants to pull the race card. That’s the devil, bitch. She spent so many years trying to sabotage my name and I just let it roll. Now you’re f*cking with my kids? ‘The whole family is racist, prejudice?’ My whole family? There’s not a racist bone in my body. Not me, my husband or my children see color. Never have.”
