Strange Things About NeNe Leakes' Marriage

March 2024 ยท 2 minute read

There's a common misconception among RHOA lore that NeNe and Gregg Leakes met when she was working at a strip club. While Gregg clarified that their meet-cute wasn't actually at said strip club, he shared during a 2014 appearance on Bethenny Frankel's Bethenny, "She invited me to her job, and I graciously accepted." 

Four years later, NeNe dished on their early conversations during a RHOA episode, saying, "You and me exchanged numbers and he left me a voicemail and he was like, 'Give Big Daddy a call.' And I was like, 'Oh, hell, no!'" However, they clearly got in touch. "He said, 'I'ma marry you one day.' I said, 'Uh uh uh!'" When Gregg didn't ask her to sleep with him, NeNe thought to herself, "Now, what's going on?' And from that point on, I was just in the bed with no clothes on."

After hearing NeNe's drawn-out story, co-star Kandi Burruss claimed that they "met at the strip club" in a confessional, which did not sit well with NeNe. In her post-episode Bravo blog post, NeNe wrote, "P.S. Oh Kandi, Gregg and I met in 1996! We didn't know anyone sitting at that table, and that includes YOU! We married in 1997, and we didn't know anyone sitting at that table, and that includes YOU! When I was a stripper, I didn't know anyone sitting at that table, and that includes YOU!" She said what she said!

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