Photo Credit: Kim Zolciak/Instagram; Kenya Moore/Instagram
Former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak opened up about the firing of her former co-star Kenya Moore’s recent firing during a virtual press junket for MTV’s Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets calling it “the best thing that could ever happen to that show.” She went on to say the 1993 Miss USA title holder was “heavily flawed” and thus deserved to be dethroned as an Atlanta peach holder. “You meet people and you have relationships with people and you get angry or you get frustrated, but when you’re just I think the core of who you are or your character is heavily flawed, I think that’s a great decision to be honest,” she explained.
Kenya Moore, a once newcomer to Atlanta from LA, she’s now been in Atlanta over a decade starring as one of the lead cast members but ended her reign after shocking attendees at her salon grand opening this June with posters of RHOA newbie Brittany Eady performing oral sex. After accusations of this being revenge porn began circulating, an insider told Page Six that the images were “readily accessible” prior to the event and also pointed out that Eady had used the word “gun” directed at Kenya before the event. A production source, however told Page Six, “At no time was Kenya ever threatened with a weapon, nor was there ever a weapon present during the course of production.”
Now with Kenya out, Phaedra Parks is currently negotiating for her return to the show, someone who Zolciak says is a “good addition” to the cast. “I love Phaedra. That would be great. … She’s so funny,” she raves to us. “I love her.” Now never mind the days her and Phaedra went at it on the show where Phaedra clapped back at her saying “You don’t see me talking about Big Poppas and foreclosures because that’s just not my thing.” I’m sure that’s water under the proverbial Atlanta bridge today.
As for whether Zolciak would return to the show, something that comes up about once a year, the Tardy for the Party star said “I literally will never go back to ‘Housewives of Atlanta.’ Like, literally. When I think about it, I had so much fun … but also, in Connecticut, where I grew up, if you don’t like somebody, it’s like, ‘We don’t like you. I don’t like you. I’m not going to talk to you,’” she says. “Down here, what I learned and learned the hard way was we go to lunch and have this great conversation and then you go do … an interview and you talk all this crap about me.”
Speaking about the contentious nature of the show being problematic for her, Zolciak said “I was so upset the first couple seasons. Like, ‘What? We just had lunch.’ And then I’m in my interview like, ‘Oh my God, she’s so great, blah blah blah.’ Really, I mean, when I say I have PTSD from things, I really do.”
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Glitzers, do you agree that Kenya Moore deserved being fired from RHOA and do you think the show will be able to survive without her?
