New beau. Kenya Moore revealed that NeNe Leakes and APHIS VS Nationwide Veterinary Stockpile Director Rodney White have been collectively for some time now.
After tales surfaced this week that Leakes, 52, is allegedly in a relationship with White, whereas nonetheless married to Gregg Leakes, Moore, 49, instructed Us Weekly completely that she wasn’t stunned by the information.
“So many people [housewives] knew that she was out with this man always being affectionate, and we knew what she was doing on the aspect,” Moore instructed Us on Tuesday, Could 26, about her Actual Housewives of Atlanta costar.
The Michigan native famous that she doesn’t take marriage recommendation from NeNe — which the OG housewife dished out within the season 12 reunion for RHOA earlier this month — due to her present relationship standing.
“For me it’s like in the event you’re so snug being out in public with somebody and kissing them and being simply inappropriate — you’re a married lady — so for me, there was nothing that she may inform me a few marriage, as a result of your individual habits with your individual husband shouldn’t be one thing that I’d need to emulate at any time limit throughout my marriage,” Moore defined.
Though NeNe’s alleged relationship with White hasn’t been mentioned on RHOA, a supply instructed Us completely that the 2 are actually seeing one another.
“It’s an open secret [that] Nene and Rodney spend time collectively,” the insider instructed Us in Could. “NeNe goes to go to him in Maryland.”
Moore defined why she thinks the storyline hasn’t made it onto the Bravo actuality present.
“I feel the people who know are her mates or her confidantes or her companions in crime and I don’t suppose that they simply needed to be the one to out them,” the mom of 1 instructed Us. “However so a lot of them, together with Housewives from different franchises, are conscious of this man, of Rodney White.”
She added: “I’m simply unsure if they simply didn’t need to be the one to interrupt the information on TV about it, however we definitely have had lots of conversations about her and this man. They’ve been seeing one another for a really very long time.”
NeNe’s rep instructed Us in a press release on Wednesday that Moore’s feedback relating to her costar’s private life haven’t any benefit. “It’s fairly disturbing that particularly throughout this time of a lot ache that when once more we’ve to take care of a disgruntled housewife making an attempt to capitalize on NeNe’s identify and private life for the sake of publicity,” the assertion learn.
“Kenya acknowledged herself that she and Nene haven’t been on talking phrases for nearly two years now, so it is mindless for her to talk with such familiarity about Nene’s private life. And to pull her decades-long marriage, household and relationship by means of the mud on a constant foundation to insinuate something about my consumer’s character is gloomy, complicated, and a despicable PR tactic that we’ve no real interest in contributing to. We encourage Kenya to deal with her personal marriage and we want her effectively.”
NeNe, for her half, hasn’t publicly addressed her relationship with the veterinary stockpile director, however the supply notes their connection is “completely romantic.”
Gregg and NeNe wed in 1997 and divorced in 2011. The 2 then remarried in June 2013. Their marriage has been proven all through NeNe’s time on RHOA, together with their ups and downs following Gregg’s most cancers analysis in June 2018 and his restoration.
The couple share son Brentt, 21, and each produce other youngsters from earlier relationships.