Leakes told TMZ she has been blacklisted since filing the lawsuit, which aims “to stop discrimination against Black women.”
The Real Housewives of Atlanta alumna NeNe Leakes was stopped at the airport in Los Angeles by , her lawsuit names the Bravo network, RHOA executive producer Andy Cohen, NBCUniversal and RHOA production companies True Entertainment and Truly Original as defendants, specifying that “NBC, Bravo and True foster a corporate and workplace culture in which racially-insensitive and inappropriate behavior is tolerated — if not, encouraged.”
The suit alleges that former RHOA star Kim Zolciak-Biermann made “racially offensive and stereotypical” comments and used the N-word, yet Bravo executives “did not terminate their relationship with Zolciak-Biermann, nor take any other meaningful action to put an end to her racially-offensive behavior,” and the result was Zolciak-Biermann getting her own spinoff, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition, the suit claims that Leakes was sidelined after being a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“As the Black Lives Matter movement swept our nation, Mrs. Leakes — Bravo’s historically most successful Black female talent — should have been embraced by NBC, Bravo, and True,” it states. “Instead, NBC, Bravo, and True forced her out of the ‘house she built,’ denying her a regular role.”
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