Phaedra Parks, Cynthia Bailey, Kenya Moore, And Claudia Jordan Celebrate Kandi Burruss’ Birthday
It seems that Phaedra Parks and Kandi Burruss have resolved their issues and are back to being good friends. On Sunday, Kandi celebrated her birthday by holding a big birthday bash. In attendance were many of her The Real Housewives of Atlanta co-stars, including Phaedra, Cynthia Bailey, Kenya Moore, Claudia Jordan, and Demetria McKinney.
Kandi posted numerous photos of the party. One photo shows Kandi standing next to Phaedra, with their arms around each other. Kandi’s caption for the photo included a take on Phaedra’s favorite saying “Fix it Jesus.” Kandi, likely in reference to her broken friendship with Phaedra, declared that “Jesus fixed it!”
“Jesus fixed it! Lol! My girl @phaedraparks was celebrating with me last night! #BdayTurnup#KandisSkiTrip.”
On Season 7 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the state of Kandi and Phaedra’s friendship was a major storyline. Good friends for several years, their friendship with one another took a hit when Phaedra felt that Kandi wasn’t there for her as she went through the demise of her marriage to Apollo Nida and his incarceration. Phaedra publicly said that NeNe, and not Kandi, was there for her the most and that she’s disappointed in Kandi.
As the season aired and Kandi watched the episodes, she was incensed that Phaedra spoke to NeNe Leakes and Porsha Williams about her feelings regarding their friendship rather than to her directly. Kandi was especially hurt over Phaedra’s comments that dismissed the issues that Kandi was going through in her own life at that time. At the reunion show, Kandi emotionally confronted Phaedra about her comments.
“Phaedra, when you sit up there on TV and was like, ‘Well she just lost a business deal… money can make me happy…,’ as if that’s the only thing that was going on… I told you about the prison situation with my other family member. And I told you what was going on. Even when I mentioned to her about the play being cancelled, she was like, ‘I saw that somewhere.’ It wasn’t like she texted me saying, ‘Girl I hate that that happened to you.’ So it’s just like to me, it almost ends up being like a lopsided friendship with you always expecting me to be here here here but you ain’t doing that. When she graduated, I blocked my calendar so that I could drive HOURS to see her and be there for her. And every time they [Kenya Moore, Cynthia Bailey and Claudia Jordan] say something, I always stand up for her. So to see her trying to play me like, oh all I cared about was money, I was like, ‘Really? Oh okay. Well you ain’t gotta worry about it no more.'”
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, during an interview after filming the reunion show, Kandi said “whatever” to the prospect of being friends with Phaedra again. Kandi admitted that she’s not sure that she can trust Phaedra again and be anything more than cordial acquaintances.
Phaedra Parks, Cynthia Bailey, Kenya Moore, Claudia Jordan, and Demetria McKinney also celebrated Kandi’s birthday with her. Kandi posted one photo of herself with Claudia, Kenya and Demetria and another photo with Claudia, Demetria and Cynthia.
Porsha Williams seems to have missed out on Kandi Burruss’ birthday party. Not surprisingly, NeNe Leakes wasn’t there either. It’s likely that NeNe didn’t receive an invite and even if she did, she wouldn’t have accepted. At The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show, NeNe admitted that she was referring to Kandi when she tweeted about her number one hater on the show. Kandi responded by outing NeNe for blasting people with private information once they’re no longer friends and outright told her that she doesn’t like her “superior, stank a** attitude.”
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