RHOA’s Cynthia Bailey: Ending My Friendship With NeNe Leakes Helped My Marriage

Marriage is even sweeter for Cynthia Bailey these days. In an interview with ESSENCE the former super model says that ending a reality TV friendship, has somehow helped her marriage to Peter Thomas.

If you’re a Real Housewives of Atlanta junkie, you watched the friendship between Cynthia and NeNe Leakes sadly end.

But don’t cry for Cynthia, she’s now re-channeling her energy to her better half:

I had put a lot of energy into my friendship with NeNe and I think what ended up happening for me—and I’m speaking for me on my side of the friendship—some of the energy that I was pouring into my friendship with her I should have been pouring into my marriage. Some friends are just needier than others, and I’m not trying to say anything bad about NeNe. I’m just saying I put a lot of energy into that relationship. And, I felt like once that relationship went away I had all this time to pour into my life and my husband and my kid.

When asked the status of her relationship with NeNe, she says:

Toward the beginning of this season I was very hurt by some of the things that happened toward the end of our