Welcome to this week’s episode of the Real Housewives of Atlanta where Nene Leakes will lose her wig, and her mind by the end of the program. Until then, please bear with me through the boring stuff. Also,be prepared to clutch your pearls during Kandi and Todd’s dungeon audition scenes.
Kandi Burruss
It looks like we are going to start with the “burlesque” auditions. Mind you neither Sonja Morgan nor Kandi Burruss really get what burlesque was, but that never stopped either one of them. Sixty-five dancers showed up to audition for her Atlanta dungeon party that completely sold out.
Cynthia Bailey shows up to audition and gives Kandi Burruss a lap dance. She’s hired!
Nene Leakes
Yovanna shows up at Swagg while Nene Leakes is there acting like she owns the place. Now, I’m not the one to talk about anyone’s back fat showing through their see through top. That’s not cool. But I will say, I do not understand why people who are on reality TV photoshop the life out of their Instagram pics to make themselves look like a size zero. How are people in real life supposed to keep a straight face when they meet you for the first time?
Also, why do we need a new embarrassment to black women everywhere in the Yovanna chick when there is already so much competition on this show? My goodness at the THOTwear! The boys working down on Ponce would not be caught dead in any of that!
Eva Marcille
Eva is having a meltdown over not having a wedding dress for the reception. Because, these days only the poors (or you know, people with financial peace and understanding) wear their wedding dress to the reception. Also she has 85 more guests than she planned for. She planned for 150 and 235 people have said they were coming. So she is $50K over budget. Of course this is all scripted. Bravo is paying for the bulk of the wedding.
Nene’s Wigless Party
We are only seventeen minutes into the episode. Are we really going to start this now? Nene Leakes is having a dinner party where no weave or wigs or extensions are allowed. Bitch please, I would be taking all that shit out of my hair for a dinner party if I were these girls. Nene claims she wants to show us whatever Donald Trump hair she is working with. Let’s see it girl. I think you have to be half bald by now. We all no you have no edges.
Greg went back to the hospital the day before this dinner. Greg has a blood clot in his leg. She is going to tell the ladies at the party. Cynthia and Marlo are the only ones that know because Greg texted them. Marlo says that Gregg texted her and begged her to go check on Nene because he was very concerned about her. WAIT A MINUTE! Is this Marlo’s first talking head? Has she had these before?
Who is Sam?
Who the hell is this Sam dude in Nene’s house helping himself to drinks and left to answer the door while she gets ready?
Production gives up a timetable for Nene’s upcoming meltdown as she merrily dances around her house in a headscarf with only her comb-over peeking out. They are clearly trying to show how she had a very drastic change in demeanor. Is it drugs? Perhaps that is why the streets are talking about her trainwreck that has apparently happened?
Maybe they are showing us that Nene’s house is a great location for a dance party because there isn’t much furniture to worry about.
Why’d They Have to Take My Wig?
I can’t believe these women all agreed to this storyline. Does no one remember Kim Field’s Beatless Brunch? I just cleaned that post up a little bit for you, so go take a look. That was the season when Cynthia Bailey was being SHA-DEE!
All the girls come in whining about their hair and looking lovely. Shamari Devoe brought two girls from Decatur with her. Nene comes down with her Donald Trump come-over. Just as I type that, Kandi says the same thing in a much nicer way in her tallking head.
Nene Sports A Donald Trump Do
Nene tells the girls that Gregg is back in the hospital. Eva is very polite in her talking head addressing why the hell Nene is having a party instead of being with her very ill husband in the hospital. Maybe that dancing scene that production filmed was supposed to show what a good mood Nene was in despite Gregg’s precarious health.
When Cynthia came in Kandi practically rooted her hair. She had her hair up in double buns. Nene says it was cheating because there were scruchies that the buns were covering. Also, how does Nene not know what Afro Puffs are?
Porsha and Marlo are late and Nene starts popping off about it. Something about somebody having nannies. It didn’t even make sense. Yovanna starts up with Eva right away. Nene is mean to Porsha when she arrives. You know Nene doesn’t like for people to be late. Remember her Hollywood party where she looked the door on her rental in LA and would not let the ladies inside? No mam she did not, that door was CLOSED.
Nene Is Angry That Marlo Came To Check On Her
Nene admits that after Gregg texted Marlo, Marlo drove all the way out to Nene’s house to check on her. For those that don’t know Marlo live in Atlanta. Like in the city. And Nene lives way the hell out in Decatur where McMansions are cheap even in gated communities. She refused to let Marlo in the gate.
Now with a normal person, you might think Nene was having a breakdown and wasn’t up for company. She could have at least said that to Marlo. But Nene told producers that she didn’t know Marlo was coming. She wasn’t invited. And Nene was on her way to go shopping. I can’t believe she says all of this stuff on camera. She did say at some point that she told Marlo she was going through a lot and didn’t want to see anyone. Marlo apparently went off at that point.
Bonus Tamara Tattles Exclusive
But let me tell you some exclusive tea for waiting longer than usual for this recap and reading so far. My sources say the reunion is going to have an entire package of Nene being mean to Gregg and arguing with him. Production asked Nene if it was okay to use. I wondered why she got to decide that and my source said it was because Gregg was going to be there at the reunion sitting next to her. I’m still not sure I understand why it was Nene’s decision but either way, she was fine with it. I don’t think she even gets how bad she looks. She is just upset that everyone is on Gregg’s side. He thought process is “sure he is sick, BUT WHAT ABOUT ME?!
Drama at the Ghetto Interruption There was some sort of huge explosion outside just now and Banjo is losing mind and things are a bit tense over here.
Anyway, by the time Marlo arrived less than an hour late, Nene Leakes is drunk off her ass. Nene starts right in on Marlo. She calls her baldy. She starts clapping her hands and calling her “edges” over and over and over. Is that because she has edges and Nene doesn’t? I don’t get it. She calls Marlo a big belt wearing bitch. This is way too much to recap.
Marlo says she had a hair appointment for her natural hair yesterday and she had to cancel it to come check on Nene. She had to be a standby appointment today and was there all day getting worked in.
Meanwhile, Nene’s Donald Trump comb-over is coming all undone and splitting apart and showing her bald head. She’s so drunk she can’t feel the breeze. Porsha jokes about it in her talking head, “Never mind Bye wig. It’s by scalp!” Porsha is so damn messy!
Support Me, Bitch!
Marlo reads the email from Gregg where he begs her to go check on Nene because he is concerned. Marlo says she was terrified and left her hair appointment and got right in the car to come check on her. She was really concerned because Nene wasn’t answering her phone. Gregg texts her again, “She is not in good shape Marlo.”
Marlo tells Nene that she doesn’t know what her breaking point is. She knows things are hard and she wants to be there.
“WELL THEN SUPPORT ME, BITCH!” Nene screams. Then she start crying from a really deep place. Kandi and Cynthia gather around her. It’s finally a real moment. Nene starts apologizing over and over. At this point Brent has come out with water. Production is in some of the shots. Clearly, everyone is concerned for Nene.
Marlo Tries to Leave But Nene Isn’t Done Yet
Then Nene goes right back to telling Marlo she doesn’t understand what she is going through. She tells the others Marlo doesn’t understand. Marlo decides it is best for her to leave. So she says goodbye and heads for the door. For some dumb reason Porsha tries to get Marlo to stay. Marlo is super hurt. She says she called Brent yesterday to check on Nene afterward and he told her she was fine and she had gone shopping. Brent was very sweet to Marlo. Cynthia gets Marlo to come back.
Nene tells Marlo that she is her sister and she needs to understand that her husband is sick. Marlo says she prays for Gregg every night. She texts him every day. “Don’t do that”! Nane says. Oh that is the problem. She doesn’t like Marlo texting her husband?
Nene Continues to Come Apart
Kandi hugs Nene while she cries. This is pretty intense. Nene goes upstairs to her room to gather herself, and her scalp and lashes.
The rest of the ladies decide to eat the meal that is just now coming out. Shamari gets trashed. The music starts playing and everyone starts dancing. This is probably inappropriate behavior when the hostess is have a mental breakdown upstairs in her room. Could not one of them go up there to sit with her? Oh wait. Just as I am typing Marlo and Cynthia go upstairs to take Nene a drink. I’m not sure if that is what she needs right now. But it’s something.
Hokanda Arrives At The Party
Downstairs, everyone is drunk except for Porsha and Tanya. Even Kandi seems a little buzzed. Shamari is trying to like Eva’s boobs at the dinner table. I’m pretty sure Emily Post would not condone this behavior. Speaking of Shamari, where are her two friends from the hood? Have they been sent to wait in the car like a couple of Kroy Biermann’s? Also when did production throw Yovanna out?
Shamari is officially Hokanda. She starts doing the splits in Tanya’s face. Tanya by the way is not drunk and seem a bit terrified by the entire evening. Hokanda slaps Tanya, who is wearing jeans, right on the pussy. Hard.
Kandi says that Shamari’s true lesbian comes out when she drinks. Next, production literally puts a spotlight on Shamari as she leaves the table. She can barely get up and clings to the wall headed for the nearest bathroom. No one seems to notice except the cameraman.
Hokanda Leaves The Party
When Cynthia comes downstairs to leave Marlo and Nene to talk, she asked where Shamari was. Eva goes to the bathroom to check on her. The girls go in to take her water and crackers. Shamari pukes all over Eva’s shoes. This makes Eva throw up. I get it. If I see someone throw up you better back away from me.
Suddenly, the Decatur girls that came with Shamari are allowed back in the house to carry her out to the car. You might think Nene predicted this in her talking head, but those are shot weeks after the events. It is true that though that they were there to drive her and make sure she made it back to the car.
Eva goes up to Nene to ask to borrow some clothes because Shamari threw up all over her and her dress. Nene is more concerned about her bathroom floor. As if she cleans her own floor. That’s Gregg’s job.
Nene Attacks The Crew
Everyone goes upstairs to say goodnight to the hostess and Kandi wants to see her closest. No of the girls have been upstairs before and Nene says that SWAGG was designed after her closet. Nene says it is not presentable for company. Kandi knows she will never drive all the way out to Duluth again. So, when Marlo tells her to go ahead, she does. Then Cynthia wants to see. Porsha goes in too. Nene is not happy. Then the cameraman starts going in there and Nene starts to drag his ass right out. I don’t blame her for this. This is her bedroom closet and he needs to stay the fuck out.
Well, maybe not. She went apeshit on the cameraman. And started grabbing at the cameras. The security guard had to grab her off the production crew as she was yelling about fucking them all up. Porsha seems to have gotten knocked around a bit.
We cut to black with Porsha crying. “Take my mic! I don’t wanna be here no more, I’m scared!”
Love the site. Marlo had this talking head episodes ago. We first saw during the cast trip
I stand firm in my opinion that I feel that it’s so wrong how Nene has turned Greg’s cancer battle into an pity party for herself. Nene is an narcissistic attention whore and can’t stand when the attention and spotlight isn’t on her. All the women, including former housewives have all sent well wishes for Greg and Nene can’t stand that everyone is more worried about him than her. Marlo and Cynthia more than anything have been by her side through this and have been a great support system for Nene but it seems that isn’t enough.
Real people in real life don’t operate like this when close loved ones are battling cancer. This is a very sensitive subject for many and the way that Nene has made this a storyline is not right and if something happens to Greg, it’s gonna eat her up inside.
Bravo hyped up this episode for no reason and it it’s definitely gonna cost them viewers. Season 11 was a bust and this episode was their last ditch effort to keep anyone interested. Shamari was the only entertaining thing about tonight’s episode with her hilarious drunken shenanigans. Who had storylines this season other than Porsha, Eva, Shamari, Kandi and Cynthia? I’ll wait 💅🏻 oh and let’s not forget how Tanya has become a fan favorite.
i think nene has cockroaches in her closet :}
I hate that Greggs Illness is being exploited for a storyline. Yes it’s raising awareness but we rarely see Gregg, it’s all about Nene. The poor man is in hospital and is still texting poeple to look out for his wife, he should be focusing on recouperating. It’s just all so sad.
I love love love Shamari, and I want to hear more about her and her family.
The crab legs were making me hungry. This show is in the crapper. Nene is a woman having an ego driven breakdown. Its hard to watch. Shamari’s drinking is concerning. Most people learn their drinking tolerance by the time they are 25. The only 40 year olds that drinks to the point of throwing up are alcoholics because they have no limit. She was an aggressive lesbian. She better be careful with this group because they make some claims about her like they did Kandi.
The crab legs were making me hungry. This show is in the crapper. Nene is a woman having an ego driven breakdown. Its hard to watch. Shamari’s drinking is concerning. Most people learn their drinking tolerance by the time they are 25. The only 40 year olds that drinks to the point of throwing up are alcoholics because they have no limit. She was an aggressive lesbian. She better be careful with this group because they make some claims about her like they did Kandi.
I’m Shamari’s defense she’s a mother to two young children and probably just wants to lets loose. I remember after having kids back to back (12 months apart), becoming a stay at home mom (I worked prior to children) and having a husband working graveyards (feeling like a single mom) that when I too acted like Shamari. I rarely had the time to go out and when I did I too forgot my drinking limit. I never got to go out so when I did I went “too hard”. Took me a few times to find my limit again. Becaue of this I give Shamari a pass….though I doubt she struggles to find the time to go out and party.
This is the 2nd time Kandi has walked into somewhere m Nene told her she’s not allowed Back in season 5 when the girls were late to her Hollywood party nene told them they couldn’t come in and Kandi walked in trying to look at the house. My other comment is I wonder if Shamari and Eva were talking about Missy… just saying
Any support Leakes may have garnered for Kandi and Porsha going into her closet against her wishes were quickly obliterated last night on WWHL when she went on and on about her utter control of anything a house guest may do or not do in her home. At one point she said if she orders a guest to sit somewhere she expects them sit and not move. She was unswayed by the poll that was 82% against her. Leakes went further and said Porsha and Kandi were not even suppose to be upstairs.
Coupled with her unhinged behavior and cloistering her bad self upstairs there just was not a lot of room to criticize either Kandi or Porsha. They were there to work and Nene was dragging things out.
Grief shows itself in many ways. Nene is definitely grieving and scared.
I took care of a family member who battled and lost the fight to cancer for 4 years, it is the worst thing.
I completely see how one could compare Trump to Nene, lying mean narcissistic racist pulling down anyone in their way to a walk of fame.
Really?
Nene needs to go. She sure tried giving her best “peach” performance tonight. She didn’t want anyone in her closet because they might see the size she wears.
Shamari saying the name Yavonna was priceless during her confessional.
Child Bye!!!!! Who craved attention the most…. Nene or Marlo? That scene of Nene fake “breaking down” was just pathetic. Marlo, as usual wanted the focus to be centered on her. For goodness sake, Nene didn’t even have tears flowing most of the crying scene just hollering.
great recap – is your neighborhood still standing?
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Love the matter of factness of your recap. Kandi not driving back out there had me giggling. Plus love the accompanying pics, I still get the newer ones names mixed up.
The designated drivers were shown briefly sitting in the other room. The doorman was labelled as “Gregg’s friend”. What a gig.
It really was intense when Kandi comforted Scalp…I mean Nene. Glad you mention drugs, exactly what I was thinking. She was maybe trying to connect with the viewers when she went in on Porsha about nannies? Too incoherent for WORDS, lol.
I so love Kandi for doing this Dungeon thing – whatever the he’ll it is, it sold out. Take that Phae and Porsha!
Did anybody else notice how old Nene’s hands looked while calling cynthia? I think her spray tan made them look worse. You’re ourselves should not look that chapped and old. My 100 year olds grandma’s look years younger than Nene
Real nice of you.
That should say her palms, no you’re ourselves. No idea how that auto correct happened.
Yes. I thought the same thing. I said look at her hands, they look old, wrinkled and decrepit.
It was so refreshing seeing the ladies without the fake hair, and with less makeup. I thought even Marlo looked much better – more feminine and natural
That was really sweet of Marlo. That was at least an hour drive in light traffic, maybe 2 hours if it was at the wrong time of day? Poor Greg. Being sick and having a narcissist take care of you is its own special kind of hell. Now, what I want to know is…..what is she hiding in that closet?????
In reference to meeting someone from online for the first time after seeing a photoshopped picture of them, I had an experience that I’ll never forget!!! Before I wised up to the internet and the lies people will tell, I attended and “online bash” – a bunch of people who frequented the same chatroom for years decided to throw a party in Atlantic City, NJ. I was so excited to meet people who I typed with for years. One lady stood out in particular. We were all exchanging pictures so we would know who was who at the party. An online friend sent me a picture of herself (remember Glamour Shots – gawd). I understand that you don’t look like yourself in these pics but this woman must’ve had this picture taken 20 years prior to distributing it. She walked up to me at the party and introduced herself. I was with another online friend when the woman introduced herself. My mouth dropped to the floor so bad that my friend had to whisper in my ear “shut your mouth Skeeter”. The woman I met couldn’t have been the same woman that was in this picture that was sent out!!! I will never forget that moment, it was both hysterical and embarrassing at the same time. WHY do people do this to themselves?? This was 25 years ago and I am still traumatized by it.
I went on a couple of ‘dates ‘ from match with guys who posted pics from at least 10 yrs ago. 1 was a mailman who was thin in his pics but looked 9 months pregnant. His button popped off during dinner. Another guy was bald & in his pic he had on match he had a full head of hair. I’ve got so many horror stories from match
I feel your pain Maureen. Been there myself! I too tried the the online dating thing about 12 years ago and NO one ever matched up to what they looked like online. My face was the nice looking man who said he was 5’11” and when I got to the dinner date, he was clearly a few inches shorter than me and I’m 5’9″ ☺
I’ve had that happen too. Online men who say they are 5’11” are all 5;7′. I’m 5’9″ too and do they not think we will notice they are shorter than we are? Like the guy was describing himself so I could pick him out of a crowd and he didn’t describe himself at all! .
Hahahahaha! And there is usually no remorse or understanding from them as to why we looked stunned and speechless when this SHORT ass man walks up! 😆😆😆
That whole scene of Nene dancing before her guests arrive reminds me of Jack Torrance in the bar with Lloyd the bartender in The Shining. Just sayin…. it scared me a little
OMG! I just rewatched that movie this weekend and thought the same!!
Kandi and her sex dungeon & her hubby & her mom & her crew can all go jump in Lake CouldCareLess!
The Shamari Lesbian drunk scene was not funny at all.
Nene’s lost her mind.
Poor Marlo, trying to be a concerned friend gets an ass chewing.
This show…uck!
Bungalow Chris why the hell are you watching this show if it’s that bad…let alone taking time to review it here on TT. Sounds like you’re misrable and need a life.
Sounds like he’s funny and calling it like he sees it to me. Lots of us hang on hoping for a few moments of past “glory” when tearing off a wig was the worst thing that happened. (Along with the Emporer Has New Clothes fashion show.
Touching cameramen is a no-no. Production hates that. A lot.
It shows what a malignant narcissist Nene is that she seems to be genuinely befuddled that people are supporting Gregg and not her for her disgusting antics. And it is not just what we are seeing now. I remember very well before he was diagnosed with cancer, that Gregg went to the hospital for his heart and she was not with him and coming up with excuses why she didn’t need to be. She’s also setting a poor example that her son who was also at this party and not add his father’s hospital bed. She’s had blood clots herself and knows that embolisms can be fatal. The fact that she would still have the (pity) party is beyond. Just like her saying why can’t he meet her at the local bar for a drink when the man had a colostomy bag and was going through treatment and I’m sure felt horrible. She is awful. And they need to give Marlo her damn peach already. She’s much better than several (Cynthia, Shamari and the other one who is so boring I don’t know her name) of the other women on the show.
Being a bitch, I was looking for tears running down NeNe’s face and didn’t happen to see any. Just me?
I said the same thing last night! No tears, no swelling, no redness, no snot. Just lies…
Marlo had a talking head last season too.
What do you mean embarrassment to black women? You can only be embarrassed for black woman if YOU’RE a black woman. And there are by far way more white women on these housewife franchise shows than black women. Including those table flipping Italians…ijs
Excuse me, but what are “edges,” and why are people so upset over them?
I think it has to do with the wig blending in and not having edges. When that becomes the “ranking” subject we really have hit bottom.
I think it has to do with the wig blending in and not having edges. When that becomes the “ranking” subject we really have hit rock bottom.
Thanks Nanette!!
I didn’t think it was possible for NeNe to come across any worse than she has been recently, but the no wig party takes the cake. First of all, her husband having a blood clot in his leg is a very serious condition that could have led to his death and NeNe throws a party? That’s it! She is officially the worst! And maybe I am reading NeNe wrong (although I highly doubt it) but NeNe is so self involved and her ego is so enormous that it appears she is throwing this party so the women can lavish attention on HER (because it is KILLING her that she is not the center of the story and her sick husband is). She is atrocious. I’m curious if she called a cab to take Gregg back to the hospital so as to not cut back on her shopping time.
None of us know what she is going through! Poor, persecuted NeNe!
NeNe has a new way of supporting her husband through serious illness–shopping and throwing pity parties for HERSELF. What a wretched woman.
And Gregg could be dying but instead of focusing on himself and his own health, he must cater to queen NeNe. Outrageous. The fact that she’s not ashamed of this behavior tells you everything there is to know about NeNe–and it’s not good.