Nene Fires Back at Vanderpump: ‘She Talked Me Out of My Dream Bar… Then Went and Opened It!’
NeNe Leakes accused Lisa Vanderpump of taking her location idea after manipulating her into not buying it. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star shared their past phone call, and she claimed she did “foul s**t to me.”
In 2014, Lisa opened her Pump restaurant in West Hollywood. Many scenes on Vanderpump Rules were filmed there, though she eventually closed it down in 2023. Before her exit on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, several of Lisa’s co-stars accused her of playing dirty behind the scenes.
“[There’s] something [Lisa] did to me that … I’ve never really addressed,” said NeNe via @talkandblockpodcast and @bravo_boo on Instagram. “I know a lot of people look at her like [she’s a certain way]. I’m like, she did some real foul s**t to me.”
The host then wondered, “Maybe the rumors are true that she kind of manipulates people.”
“She does,” NeNe agreed. “So in L.A., she has a place called Pump on Santa Monica Boulevard, that bar. So at the time, Gregg and I were living up in Doheny Estates, we had our house up there, and I was working on Glee and New Normal.”
“And I [would] ride down that West Hollywood area where I kept thinking, it would be so cool if I had a bar right in here somewhere. And that space was empty and kind of raggedy looking and torn down, and the Abbey is like right there,” NeNe continued. “And I said, this is a cool spot cause I could get some of the business from the Abbey. I said, who could I call and ask is this a good area, cause I’m not so sure. So I call Lisa Vanderpump.”
NeNe said she asked Lisa about the area.
“She [responded], ‘Oh darling, darling, it’s a piece of crap and they’re charging so much for it, darling.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I love it, I think it’s a great space. And I knew to call you cause I knew you have a restaurant.’ … She talked me [out of it], and went and got it [herself].”
“That’s so fucked up,” she said. “The next thing I know, [she opened] Pump [there]. I was like, is this b**ch serious? And so now when she’s seen me — she has her little dog that doesn’t even crawl — and she’s like, ‘Um, hi NeNe…'”
The star claimed Lisa “never” apologized.
“She just looks at me funny, like … she knows [that I] know,” said NeNe, who called her “Vander-lump.”
Lisa Rinna reveals daughter Amelia Hamlin got life-threatening infection from nipple piercing
Lisa Rinna shared a “cautionary tale” about her daughter Amelia Hamlin’s life-threatening health scare.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum shared on her “Let’s Not Talk about the Husband” podcast with her spouse, Harry Hamlin, that their youngest daughter’s nipple piercing once got infected.
Rinna said the health issue began when Amelia was partying at Coachella at age 19.
“She was, like, up on a balcony. Somebody pushed her — kind of, like, pushing forward — and her boob went into, like, a bush, and it jammed the nipple into the boob,” the matriarch, 62, explained.
“She came home that night and, all of a sudden, she had a super high fever, and her boob was this big.”
Rinna said she had to rush Amelia, now 24, to the hospital at around 2 a.m. to get an X-ray.
“We thought maybe something was wrong with her ribs,” the former “Housewife” said, adding that her youngest daughter’s breast continued to swell up.
Rinna said they ended up calling an “infectious disease doctor,” who diagnosed Amelia with sepsis, which is when the body responds poorly to an infection and can cause organs to shut down, per the Mayo Clinic.
“From the nipple ring?” Harry, 73, asked, prompting Rinna to reply, “From whatever it punctured. She punctured something when she went into the bush.”
The details made the “Mad Men” alum squirm and say, “I don’t wanna hear anymore.”
Rinna continued to share, however, the treatment Amelia had to endure, stating, “She had to be on IV antibiotics for a week. It was actually very dangerous, guys. It was dangerous.”
The former soap star said that Amelia’s incident prompted her older sister, Delilah Hamlin to also take out her nipple piercing.
She said, “Nobody wanted to die ’cause they had a freaking nipple ring.”
