Kandi Says She's Sad Over Kenya's #RHOA Exit

Kandi Burruss is candidly reacting to her good girlfriend Kenya Moore’s #RHOA exit and admitting she’s “sad” about the news. “I feel like this is the end of an era,” said the singer/songwriter.

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As previously reported multiple outlets confirmed this week that Kenya won’t be returning to The Real Housewives of Atlanta with some claiming she was fired and others alleging that she’s “taking a break” from season 16 with an option to return.

Kenya told her #TeamTwirl fans that she has a “clean conscience” amid rumors that she unveiled sexually explicit posters of newbie Brittany Eady seemingly performing oral sex and added that she was looking forward to thriving in a “nontoxic environment.”

“The rumors and narrative about me randomly showing nudes or revenge p is 1000% untrue,” the former Miss USA added. “I have proof and will share soon.”

Now Kandi’s weighing in and telling her followers on Amazon Live that she’s upset to see Kenya go.

“There was an incident that happened, I wasn’t there,” said Kandi about the moment Kenya allegedly revealed the “revenge porn.” “I can’t give you details of what happened. But it makes me sad, you know, I’m not lying about how I feel because she is my friend. I do love her. ”

“I do not know the other young lady so it’s not a diss to her,” she added acknowledging Brittany Eady. “I feel like Kenya, I know she goes far sometimes–I get it, but I have never known her to make up anything about anybody. And if things are out there about you, when you join a reality show, unfortunately, people are able to pull up things that you’ve done, and share them.”

She continued,

“I just kinda hate how because of the situation they decided to part ways and I just feel like dang, it wasn’t nothing else we could do. I just feel like Kenya’s a major part of the show. I feel like this is the end of an era. I don’t care who disagrees. I feel like it’s the end of an era. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t like her or whatever. You always gonna need somebody who doesn’t mind being real and keeping it 100 on camera, pushing the story, meaning like bringing up things that other people are trying to avoid.”

Her words come after she previously said she disagreed with Kenya being suspended over the photo scandal and after she told Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast that Kenya was just acting in housewife fashion by sharing Brittany Eady’s pics.

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Hit the flip for her comments.

During an interview before Kenya’s #RHOA exit, Kandi defended her friend’s actions and said she didn’t understand the controversy.

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“The show is wild, right? We’ve had some crazy things happen on our show,” said Kenya who left #RHOA  this year following 14 consecutive seasons. And a lot of people are like, ‘How can you support that?’ And I’m like, at the end of the day, she didn’t make up anything about somebody. Now she pulled some unfavorable receipts offline, which may not have been the nicest thing to do.

She continued and said she believed Kenya was retaliating to a #RHOA season 16 interaction with Brittany Eady.

“The ladies on our show and on different shows on reality TV, when you say something to someone or you make a threat or you come at somebody in a negative way, you do not get to determine how strong the shade or whatever it is that’s coming back at you,” said Kandi on Virtual Reali-Tea.

So that is my thing. I’m like, ‘When did the rules become she had to be nice about it?!’ So … I can’t really get with the hateration.”

Kandi’s comments come amid previous reports that Eady made threats to Kenya using the word “gun” before the event.

A production source told Page Six however that that never happened.

“At no time was Kenya ever threatened with a weapon, nor was there ever a weapon present during the course of production,” the source said.

What do YOU think about Kandi’s comments on Kenya’s Bravo booting? Do you agree that it’s the “end of an era?”