‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ Stars Tell All: Secrets of the New Season

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‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ Stars Tell All: Secrets of the New Season

They’re back — and with more drama! Season 9 of the Real Housewives of Atlanta left off with heartbreak, rumors, lies and broken friendships. But this year, Porsha Williams, Sheree Whitfield, Kenya Moore, Kandi Burruss and Cynthia Bailey are back in full force. With Phaedra Parks no longer in the season 10 mix, Bravo is spicing things up with the return of NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak. Us Weekly caught up with four of five the returning stars to spill tea on the new upcoming season. Let’s just say things will be getting crazy this time around. New alliances will be formed, while old feuds will be brought back to the table. [ami-related id="2364" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/before-they-were-real-housewives-201278/" title="Before They Were Real Housewives!" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/1351545980_nene-leakes-kim-zolciak-300.jpg"]

Credit: Alex Martinez/Bravo

‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ Stars Tell All: Secrets of the New Season

They’re back — and with more drama! Season 9 of the Real Housewives of Atlanta left off with heartbreak, rumors, lies and broken friendships. But this year, Porsha Williams, Sheree Whitfield, Kenya Moore, Kandi Burruss and Cynthia Bailey are back in full force. With Phaedra Parks no longer in the season 10 mix, Bravo is spicing things up with the return of NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak. Us Weekly caught up with four of five the returning stars to spill tea on the new upcoming season. Let’s just say things will be getting crazy this time around. New alliances will be formed, while old feuds will be brought back to the table. [ami-related id="2364" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/before-they-were-real-housewives-201278/" title="Before They Were Real Housewives!" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/1351545980_nene-leakes-kim-zolciak-300.jpg"]

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Porsha Williams

This year she’s going solo. After being betrayed by her old pal Parks (the 44-year-old lawyer was not asked to return after spreading a nasty rumor about Burruss), the entrepreneur, 36, will not be replacing the Frack to her Frick. “I just have me, myself and I,” she tells Us Weekly. But with Zolciak, 39, back in the mix this season, Williams, who has feuded with Moore and Leakes, has a strong ally. Says the star, “She tells it like it is, and I like people like that.” 

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Sheree Whitfield

On to the next! Last season, fans were shocked to learn about the businesswoman’s alleged abusive relationship with ex-husband Bob. But since dropping her bombshell, Whitfield has bounced back, becoming an ambassador for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and working as a life coach. “I’m in a good place,” says the 47-year-old. “I’m pretty happy right now.” Credit her unnamed new “boo.” Though the mom of three isn’t revealing details (some reports have identified him as Tyrone Gilliams), Whitfield tells Us Weekly that she’s open to walking down the aisle again: “You’ll have to wait and see.”

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Kenya Moore

She’s a real housewife now. Since marrying businessman Marc Daly in June, the former Miss USA, 46, is blissed out. “I am a wife and it’s a new world for me,” she gushes. Now she’s looking to add another title: mom. Says Moore, “I hope by the reunion you see me with a belly!” Fans will definitely see her choosing sides in the volatile Leakes-Zolciak feud. “NeNe and I are in a great place,” says Moore, adding Zolciak is “a dark cloud of negativity.”

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Kandi Burruss

She’s finally escaping the drama. After surviving the fallout from Parks’ nasty rumor about planning to drug Williams to take advantage of her sexually, the 41-year-old singer is ready to face all obstacles that come her way. “If I can make it through last season, I can make it through anything,” she explains to Us Weekly. But she’s not exactly mending fences with Williams. “I only coexist with her,” she says. After all, she has more relationships to deal with on her other Bravo show, Xscape: Still Kickin’ It (Sundays, 9 p.m.). “We had issues not settled from past drama,” Burruss says of reuniting with her ’90s girl group. “We’re still trying to figure stuff out."

The Real Housewives of Atlanta premieres on Bravo Sunday, November 5, at 8 p.m. ET.