During Sunday night's episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, both Kandi Burruss and Phaedra Parks came head-to-head with a laundry list of reasons why they were hurt by the other. However, Burruss put Parks on blast — accusing her of having an affair while she was still married to ex-husband Apollo Nida.
The accusation came when Parks attempted to explain why she was so hurt by Burruss’ lack of emotional support during her divorce.
“I’m not sure why you are so angry with me — I’m the one that should be angry,” Parks said. “I’m the one that’s a single parent, raising my kids alone, going through a divorce … You have everything going for you.”
Burruss understood the challenges of being in the position, as she raised her 14-year-old daughter Riley as a single mom. But she felt Parks was financially stable enough to handle her split from Nida — and, in fact, was looking forward to it.
“We both know you was counting down the days ’til he went away anyway,” Burruss said. “He relieved you because really, he was giving you drama and you were ready for him to damn go.”
Parks confessed that she wasn’t prepared to handle the emotions that came with his departure. She hoped Burruss would have understood that, rather than making their split “light.” That implication set Burruss off.
“I’m making it light because you made it light to me,” she fired back. “You was already talking to other people before your husband even went to jail. When we would talk, you’d be like you was already ready to marry somebody else by the new year. So it really was a stress off your back at the time. That’s the way you was puttin’ it to me.”
This wasn’t the first time Parks had been accused of having an affair. Before Nida went to jail to begin serving his eight-year sentence for bank fraud and identity theft, he claimed he had found text messages between Parks and a man only know as “Mr. Chocolate,” reports People.
Though they’re divorced now, Nida and Parks were still legally married at the time of the “Mr. Chocolate” texts and had not filed any divorce paperwork. Parks denied the cheating allegations at the time, but kept mum while Burruss — who said she knew “Mr. Chocolate” — brought their rumored romance up.
“I understood you can’t just let everybody know how you really feel because people look down upon woman who don’t stand by their man the whole time, so I just let it go,” Burruss said. “But don’t make me the scapegoat. That’s how I felt all these years — you was doing your pity party, but when you were with me there was no pity party.”
Burruss brought up how Parks cried about their broken friendship to Burruss’ former co-star NeNe Leakes, there was nothing Parks could have said to repair the hurt.
“You sit there and cry in front of f——- NeNe? You didn’t even cry to her about your husband and you were crying to her about our friendship?” Burruss said.
“Maybe I loved you more than I loved my husband,” Parks responded. “Did you ever consider that?”
“That was really sweet Phaedra, but that’s when I can’t take what you say seriously,” Burruss laughed, packing up her things and leaving.
“I know my name is Kandi, but it's not chocolate, okay,” Burruss said her confessional interview, hinting that Parks had an affair with “Mr. Chocolate.” “You know you had chocolate melted in your mouth, not in your hands, honey.”
Transcript courtesy via People
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