Kandi Burruss Opens Up About RHOA Season 12 Virtual Reunion Drama With NeNe Leakes! Plus Kandi Claps Back At NeNe’s ‘Number 2’ Diss; Says “The Number Two Is The New Number One, Boo!”

Kandi Burruss is sharing her thoughts on her explosive fight with NeNe Leakes at the Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 12 virtual reunion. The Masked Singer winner reveals why she believes Leakes walked off and claps back at her recent shady comments.

"I honestly did not think that it was gonna be as good as it is," she told Entertainment Tonight about the reunion. "I was just like, how are we just gonna sit up here and argue with people on a computer? Like, that didn't make sense to me, and then I felt like a lot of people would not really face up to whatever they needed to, because they're not right there in your faces, which I was right about one thing. People could just walk away from the computer when they got, you know, under fire."

Kandi and NeNe have been beefing on social media prior to the reunion after Leakes shaded Burruss' many Bravo spin-offs via her YouTube page. According to Kandi, they took their drama offline before the reunion.

"To be honest with you, she and I had an argument over text messages that was, like, ridiculous," Kandi says. "We were cussing each other out, reading each other on the text messages -- just me and her, nobody else was involved in this -- just she and I, and I had just stopped responding to her at a certain point, because I realized that this lady is really just gonna keep going back and forth with me on this text message, and we over here really being childish right now."

"From that I knew that it was gonna be ugly at the reunion," Kandi adds. "I was like, if we are doing this on a text between she and I, clearly we gonna be going for blood at the reunion. And so, I just was ready for the drama, because I already knew she was gonna be doing what she does. I didn't even care. I was just, OK, whatever she want to do, I was gonna match her energy. If she came crazy, I was gonna come crazy right back. So, that's basically what happened."

Kandi believes that NeNe walked off the reunion because she didn't want to face what Yovanna Momplaisir had to say about SnakeGate drama.

"I want everybody to remember, she really went around and told the whole world that she was going to read us and that she was gonna let us have it, and all this stuff,” Kandi says of the walk-off. "So, please know that we were not the reason why she got up and left. The real reason why she got up and left was because Yovanna [Momplaisir] posted a post to let everybody know that she was about to come on the show. Like two minutes after Yovanna posted that, that is when NeNe got up. We weren't even talking to NeNe anymore when she got up."

"Don't let her fool y'all," she says. "She did not want to face the things that Yovanna had to say."

Burruss explains why she had no problem confronting Leakes at the reunion. "All of a sudden NeNe started saying little stuff, 'Oh, you need to watch Kandi…' and all this negative crazy stuff, and I was like, what is her problem?" Kandi says. "I felt like that's where it came from. It just has grown from there."

"Like I said, I'm just gonna match her energy," Kandi adds. "If she gonna come at me crazy, I'm gonna give her crazy. And you know, it didn't help that we were in quarantine because I have time now, you know? … I'm like, OK, you got the right one today."

Kandi also is reacting to Leakes' comments after NeNe started publicly referring to Kandi as "number two," implying that NeNe herself is "number one," at least when it comes to the show.

"Let me tell you this -- and this is just being a little petty -- being number two has never looked so good, honey," Kandi told Entertainment Tonight. "The number two is the new number one, boo!"

"You want $1 million or you want two?" she asks. "You want one show or two shows? You want number one on The Masked Singer. Well, I don’t know…"

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