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Kenya Moore and the cast of The Real Housewives of Atlanta reacted to the news of Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann‘s since-dismissed divorce, after Sunday night’s episode of the show, which featured Kim gushing over their “great” relationship.
As a number of the ladies, including Sanya Richards-Ross, Marlo Hampton, and Sheree Whitfield, expressed shock at the couple’s divorce filings, Kenya suggested the split was a scam to protect their finances and poked fun at Kroy for his supposed lack of a personality.
“Obviously, I don’t know Kim. I’ve never met her. But from what I can see on social, they looked like they were so happy,” Sanya said on the July 9 episode of the RHOA: After Show, suspecting that Kim and Kroy’s money troubles, including their $1.1 million debt to the IRS, likely lead to their marital hardships.
“A lot of times they say finances is the biggest contributing factors of divorce,” she said.
And Sanya also noted that Kim may have spoken highly of her marriage to Kroy amid filming on the 15th season of RHOA months ago because she felt things between them would ultimately improve.
“I think a lot of times when you’re married, you’re hoping it’s gonna get better, so you’re kinda faking it in public until it’s like, ‘This is not working,’ I think a lot of people do that because you want it to work,” she explained.
Meanwhile, Sheree said that while she couldn’t confirm if Kim and Kroy’s finances contributed to their breakup, “it’s possible.”
“I thought they were lasting forever. She said she was super happy, everything was going great with them,” Sheree admitted. “[But] it’s hard. I think sometimes people aren’t ready to have that conversation and share that.”
Following the news of Kim’s divorce filing, Sheree was in contact with Kim. In fact, before Kim suddenly canceled, they had plans to meet.
“We were supposed to meet two Fridays ago, after the divorce. She’s like, ‘I’m really going through it.’ And I understand. A public divorce is hard. Of course, divorce is horrible anyway but publicly and so much is going on, it’s like no privacy, it’s crazy,” Sheree revealed. “So she asked if we could reschedule.”
As for Marlo, she said that while money was “a major factor” in Kim and Kroy’s marriage, she never thought they’d call it quits.
“It was like the All-American family. It was like Ken and Barbie to me,” she noted. “I never saw it coming.”
Also on the RHOA: After Show, Kenya weighed in, shading the couple’s finances and stating that when it came to Kim and Kroy’s split, she never bought into it.
“Do I believe the stories about them being in debt? Are you insane? Of course, they’re in debt!” she proclaimed. “[But] my true feeling is that they’re not getting divorced. I think that it’s just a way to separate their assets or maybe get out of owing some of their debtors. So to me, I just can’t see that being real news.”
In addition to suspecting their divorce was a sham, Kim slammed Kroy, asking what the former NFL player is “really like behind closed doors.”
“Is he really putting on Kim’s lipstick and makeup and doing her wigs? He just seems like he has been pressed on mute. When he’s out, he just doesn’t seem to have any kind of personality and it seemed like he was just living for Kim.”
Then, when Kenya was asked if she’d date Kroy, she made it clear she would not.
“What if I came across him? I would swipe off the phone. I would just probably turn my phone off at that point. I’d be like, ‘Hell to the no,’” she laughed.
Earlier this month, after reports of a kidnapping scheme, a gambling addiction, and drug use, Kim and Kroy filed documents to have their requests for divorce dismissed.
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