NeNe Leakes’s social media followers are calling for Bravo to fire her after she wrote a series of despicable social media messages to her husband, Gregg Leakes, calling him “mean, grouchy” and “evil” amid his cancer battle.
It all started on Instagram.com on Thursday night, when Gregg posted an inspirational message to men on “Brothers Day.”
He quoted Mark Linton, saying:
“A real man is the kind of man that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says Oh Crap, he’s up! Brother, life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat u right. Forgive the ones who don’t just because you can.”
In since-deleted social media posts, NeNe lashed out at her cancer-stricken husband for not following his own advice.
“Well u need to do everything you posted! Practice what you preach. You need to pray for yourself! This mean, grouchy, evil stuff u pulling these days are NOT cool.”
She added:
“I would just think if I have or had cancer, I would see life so differently! Not be mean, grouchy and evil for no real reason! But that’s me. Pray for me.”
One of NeNe’s angry followers leaped into her comments with both feet, slamming the aging Real Housewives of Atlanta star for being insensitive and self-centered in the face of her husband’s battle with stage 3 prostate cancer.
An unrepentant NeNe replied:
“Chileeee shut up! Gregg has done so much s–t! It didn’t just start! While u commenting saying s–t to me, ask him what has he done! Oh and by the way, Gregg isn’t bed stricken and needing daily help! You got it twisted.”
The comments from her followers continued to rage throughout the night with NeNe offering no apologies.
The reality TV Diva, who turns 51 in December, got emotional when discussing her husband’s cancer diagnosis on an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen earlier this month.
“The day that they told us that Gregg has cancer, my life changed in that moment. Being a care taker’s very hard. It’s just been very difficult,” NeNe said at the time. “I feel like that day I lost my husband, because he’s not with me, we don’t do the things that we normally do together. We’re not even in the same bedroom.”
The couple met when Gregg rescued the single mom from a strip club where the former stripper, real name Linnethia Monique Johnson, danced for money to support her son, Bryson Bryant.
They tied the knot in 1997 and divorced in 2011 to prevent the IRS and other creditors from taking everything they owned.
Gregg and NeNe remained together, living in the same rented mansion in Duluth, Georgia with her son Bryson and their son Brentt.
The couple “reunited” and announced their engagement in 2013. Bravo filmed their wedding ceremony for a spinoff titled I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding that premiered on September 17, 2013.
