"And I really don’t know what her problem is, you know what I’m saying? Well, now I do, because I have been petty."
If you recall, NeNe and Kandi got into a shady feud on social media last week over comments Leakes made about Burruss on her YouTube page.
"I feel like she was starting it," Kandi says. "Just gave people this sense of... just trying to get people [to think] I was coming for her during this season, when actually, I’m the only one who wanted to film with her at the beginning of the season. Like, I was the one who was trying to get everyone back on the same page with her. So, I don’t know how she changed that into trying to make people believe that I have something against her. I honestly feel like it’s just because I’m friends with Kenya [Moore]."
Kandi then claims that she and her co-stars are over the drama between Leakes and Moore.
"I feel like everybody else is, like, we -- honestly -- we’re over and tired of [Kenya] and NeNe arguing with each other," Kandi admits. "It's always one of them walking away so let's just have a real conversation and try to do it without arguing. And then, you know, get to the bottom of whatever the drama is because to be honest with you, I'm still confused on where the beef originated, you know?"
"People want me to be mad at Kenya so much, you know what I mean? They want me to be angry with her about her behavior on the show or whatever, but it's, like, Kenya and I really hit it off, like we're really cool and, at the end of the day, I do tell her when I feel like she's not, you know, doing something that is cool or whatever," Kandi says. "We do have our talks. I'm very straightforward. You do not have to worry about me beating around the bush, but just because I may not agree with something she does, it doesn't mean that we are going to fall out."
"She's always been good with me," she adds. "People always know Kenya as the villain, right? But then, you actually get to see that a lot of things actually do affect her. You see she just got to a breaking point that I don't know if everybody realizes, like, that little 10 minutes of the [“ruin party”] argument, 10, 20 minutes, whatever [you saw on TV], it lasted for hours. So, if you think about it, she had the crown on almost the entire time."
Kenya hit her breaking point when Marlo Hampton shared her issues with Kenya to the group.
"It wasn't even really what Marlo was saying that made her break down, it's the fact that she had to deal with things being back to back to back," Kandi says. "Plus, what she already had going on at home that she just was, like, done."
"Regardless of whether you're wrong or right in a situation, if you had to argue with every single person in a room and then, on top of that, people, like, spitting and throwing stuff at you? Like, you're gonna break," Kandi notes.
Kandi believes that both NeNe and Kenya can both co-exist on future seasons of RHOA despite their ongoing feud.
"Of course we can exist with both of them in [the group]," Kandi told Entertainment Tonight. "I mean, let's be for real -- they've been on the show arguing for years, pretty much. I mean there was, like, one brief moment in time where they kind of got along, you know? But other than that … we've dealt with both of them on the show."
“Yeah, there were a couple of seasons where NeNe wasn't there, and there was a season where Kenya wasn't there, but for the most part, we had the both of them there together, and I think it's better," she continues. "I think it's better when the both of them are there. I don't really want to see the show without either one of them, me personally. Even though, you know, there are times when I've butt heads, as well. But that has nothing to do with us. I still want to see them both there."
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