Kandi Burruss’ split from Todd Tucker has had its ugly moments, and now she’s opening up about her ex-husband’s proposed series, Til Divorce Do Us Part, and offering insight into why it differs from her one-woman show about their marriage.
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During an interview with CNN‘s Audie Cornish, the singer, actress, and serial hustler broke her silence on Tucker’s plan to reveal intimate details about what occurred in their marriage.
“He’s tried to pitch the show multiple times,” Burruss said. “They did not choose to do it.”
Cornish admitted that she was not sold on the concept—which also includes a cast of men who were once involved with previous and current housewives, namely Apollo Nida, Peter Thomas, Ralph Pittman Jr. and Dennis McKinley—and thought that the beauty of the Housewives franchise was that it was told through the lens of the women.
An assertion that Burruss agreed with, naming it as one of the reasons networks had passed on the idea.
“The man who shall not be named—Kandi’s former partner—has a new project,” Cornish said. “Not to be a hater, but I really don’t want to see the men. One of the things I loved about Real Housewives, it was centering the story of women. Many over the age of 40. And I didn’t really want to know about the dudes on the side.”
Tucker previously confirmed that the show was passed on by Bravo, telling Ryan Cameron Uncensoredthat the original concept included former #RHOA husbands Bob Whitfield and Kroy Biermann.
“Let me tell you the real: I wrote this show probably four years ago for them [the divorced husbands of The Real Housewives of Atlanta],” he said.
“They turned it down because they gotta protect their brand, right?” he said. “I pitched it a couple other places. Nobody picked it up. I always thought it was a good show.”
Kandi Talks Her One-Woman Show
Kandi was also asked to speak to the criticism that many had around her being allowed to give her version of events by way of her one-woman show, I Do, I Did, I’m Done, though she says the two perspectives are vastly different.
“I think the answer or the reply to it is, ‘Oh, she did her own one-woman show,’” she said. “But what people don’t realize about the one-woman show is, we took people’s phones. I purposely did it in intimate crowds. You would have to know somebody that went or who was there to be a part of it.”
The interview came on the heels of Tucker sharing intimate details about their sex life as husband and wife, a move that many found to be low-hanging fruit to help promote the failed production.
“A man who has already hurt me to my core is furthering the damage by choosing to sensationalize our sex life to stretch his five minutes of fame,” Burruss said at the time. “What consensually happens between a husband and wife in the privacy of their marriage is exactly that—private.”
Fans of the one-time couple have been split on the matter of what the public now gets to know about their relationship, with some feeling like Todd has the right to share as much as Kandi does while others point to the former being the cause of the split as the reason why he should count his losses and shut up for now.
Either way, Kandi continues to bring in them dollars as I Do, I Did, I’m Done started off with just a few cities and expanded to over 10 due to popular demand.
