However, despite everything, the 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star reveals in a new interview that she doesn't force her husband, who has recovered from cancer, to be faithful.
- Mar 11, 2020
AceShowbiz - Ahead of her "open marriage" storylines in season 12 of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta", NeNe Leakes reveals that she caught husband Gregg Leakes cheating on her with a former employee. The TV star talked about it during her appearance in the Monday, March 10 episode of Angela Lee's "Lip Service" podcast.
She shared that she found out her husband's infidelity back in summer 2019 after she opened a clothing store in Maryland at the MGM National Harbor. She expressed that Gregg helped her with the hiring process for the new store, sharing, "[He's] really good with all things that I'm not good with."
NeNe said that she remembered a girl, named Juanita, in the store that seemed like Gregg's "type." She said, "She's very much Gregg's type and Gregg very much likes girls with short hair. When he met me, I had short hair."
She initially thought nothing of it until she came back to the store after a while following an employee meeting where she noticed that Juanita and a gay employee didn't get along. "She was sitting there, the gay guy said, 'I don't appreciate you calling me a queen and listen, you wouldn't want to do that because you know I know your secret,' " NeNe recalled. She added that Juanita denied whatever that the male employee implied, prompting him to challenge her to FaceTime Gregg.
"I'm in a whole room and I'm standing up and I didn't get out of character I just said 'Really?' " NeNe explained. "I knew he wasn't lying. And she was in shock."
NeNe then confronted Gregg by putting him on speaker phone during the meeting. " 'So, you've been talking to Juanita,' " she said to Gregg. "He said, 'No!' And I was like, 'Okay, you have. Bye.' And he went insane, screaming going crazy and then her phone beeped."
NeNe explained Gregg told her, "We never did anything. We just talked on the phone. We never had sex." According to NeNe, Gregg told her, "You weren't here for me to talk to."
However, despite everything, NeNe said that she didn't force her husband to be faithful. "Gregg has taken passes that I didn't even give him. At this point, if he wanted to go, he would go the hell on. I like to talk open relationships and I have talked about that with Gregg and told him, 'If you're going to cheat, your relationship is open anyway,' " NeNe said.
"If Gregg wanted to be with someone right now, I would say go right on. Why am I going to try and keep him from doing something he wants to do? Then I would have to make a choice if I want to say and I probably would," she said. "I do what I want anyway. I don't want to hear what he's doing about anyway. I'm in New York and he's in Georgia. Whatever he's doing I don't need to know about it. We've really had these conversations."
NeNe cryptically tweeted that in June 2019, "U find out ur husband/boyfriend been talkin on the phone regularly to 1 of ur female employees as 'just a friend' but u had no knowledge of it, did he cross any lines?" However, NeNe insisted that it wasn't about her as she added, "Askin 4 a friend since y'all know EVERYTHING (but he said, we never talked sex! I just needed some1 to talk 2."
