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Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Cynthia Bailey Insists She’s Not a Mean Girl: Watch!

Life is about choices, and Cynthia Bailey chooses to be nice!

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Though her fellow Georgia peaches might think otherwise (“The new Cynthia is a mean girl. She’s messy, she’s dirty, she’s lowdown and she’s bored, ” Porsha Williams ranted in a confessional), the Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member maintained that she hasn’t changed a bit when she stopped by Us Weekly’s NYC headquarters last week.

“I’ve always had a voice on the show,” she said. “To me, every fight isn’t worth fighting. But now it’s [my] fifth season, girl!”

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Bailey has had her fair share of controversy this go ‘round — like when she spilled the tea on Phaedra Parks’ alleged affair with a man named Chocolate. 

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Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Cynthia Bailey Insists That She’s Not a Mean Girl

“I still don’t think that I’m judgmental,” she insisted. “I just put things on the table.”

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Her honesty is part of what ended her friendship with NeNe Leakes, who loved Cynthia “like a sister” once upon a time. But Cynthia is still “very open” to a reunion.

“I don’t ever see us being besties again,” she admitted. “I’m not really the issue…a friendship takes two people.”

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See what else Cynthia has to say about her reputation and her relationship with the other ladies in Us Weekly’s exclusive video above.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.

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