Shamea Morton and Porsha Williams’ rock-solid friendship appears to be crumbling on The Real Housewives of Atlanta — but there’s still hope for the childhood besties.
Revealing the status of their relationship after RHOA Season 16 in an exclusive interview with The Daily Dish, Shamea had nothing but praise for Porsha’s evolution over the years.
“We’ve all grown quite a bit and matured, but I love the fact that she still has a fun youthful heart,” Shamea gushed. “She still enjoys having fun, being out, and I’m excited to see what her next thing in life is.”
Even as Porsha navigates her ongoing divorce from Simon Guobadia, Shamea believes “God is working with her and through her,” adding, “Some of the changes might hurt right now, but they’re for the best for her.”
Ultimately, she trusts that a higher power will guide them in the future.
“We just say that God’s will be done in our lives,” Shamea summed up. “And I think that is the case with her. She’ll continue to evolve and she’ll continue to come out on top.”
During RHOA Season 16, Episode 10, several long-brewing issues between the two finally bubbled to the surface. As Angela Oakley spilled about their so-called “lopsided friendship,” Shamea felt that Porsha “didn’t want her to be” a full-time Housewife and was “afraid” to open up about not wanting to be “looked at as Porsha’s lapdog.”
What’s more, Shamea apparently had some lingering hurt feelings about Porsha skipping her 2017 wedding to Gerald Mwangi in Kenya.
Meanwhile, both were incensed that each was discussing their beef behind the other’s back, especially given their long history.
On The Real Housewives of Atlanta After Show, Shamea tackled the issue of Porsha’s “hurtful” absence from her wedding, head-on. She shared that though Porsha did attend her traditional Kenyan Kikuyu ruracio ceremony, which she explained is when a groom’s family pays a dowry for his bride, she skipped out on the actual nuptials in Africa.
During the May 11 episode, Porsha herself revealed, “I did not go to Shamea’s wedding in Kenya because a couple months or a month or two prior to her actual wedding, we were not speaking.”
That apparently came as news to Shamea, however.
“I didn’t know that that’s the reason why you didn’t come,” she claimed on the RHOA After Show. “You told me that you were sick. Who knew?!”
Shamea went on to say that Porsha had also given her “three other excuses” for why she couldn’t fly to Kenya.
“Well, which one is it? I’m very much like, let’s get to the bottom of it and move forward,” Shamea concluded.
Heather Gay
spoke of Meredith Marks‘ alleged plane meltdown while appearing on Tuesday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live.
As she also mentioned Lisa Barlow‘s supposed leaks, Jason Chambers‘ denial of their hookup, and
“The truth is, like, we were 9-10ths of that first class cabin, and it was all housewives and production, and it was kind of a celebrity no touch zone. They were used to our crazy behavior. We came in loud, and I don’t think it was air marshal zip-tied behavior, but I also think that celebrity played a part in it,” Heather explained on the November 11 episode of WWHL.
She then said that when it came to Lisa’s alleged leaks, she had “absolute receipts, proof, timeline, screenshots,” before noting that the discussions about them weren’t important.
“What’s important is that we evolve and move on and no longer try to build ourselves up by taking each other down … we’ll see [if we got there] after the reunion,” she noted.
Looking back at Jason’s claim that the two of them didn’t actually hook up, Heather asked, “Nothing happened?”
“If that’s how he defines ‘nothing,’ that’s fine,” she suggested before adding that “nothing” happened.
“I love him, and we had so much fun in Australia, and it’s like, a weird kinship when you’re in a different — I mean, it’s his country. It’s a different country for me. And we’re doing press, and we’re hanging out every day. It’s his land and he was my guide in many ways,” she explained.
As for Mary’s sit-down with Meredith, 53, about her behavior toward Britani, during which Mary, 53, suggested Meredith apologize, at least for her own sake, Heather applauded Mary for cutting through Meredith’s “BS pretty quickly.”
“Meredith came in so sing-songy. And Mary was just like, ’15 minutes? 30 minutes?’ It was more than that. And I just loved watching the interaction of those two friends try to, like, break down what really happened on that plane,” Heather admitted.
Following her dispute with Lisa, 50, who reportedly shamed her for defending Britani against Meredith, Heather said she “thought it was ridiculous” that Lisa wasn’t listening to what Britani had to say about her role in the drama.
“I was trying to say, ‘Listen, Britani told me this. I witnessed this. And you are in denial,’” she explained.
Then, after denying that Lisa lived a very different life than other members of the RHOSLC cast, saying that the “only big difference” she sees “is that we live our life with our own money,” Heather reacted to Brownyn’s openness about marriage to
“My take on it all is like, what is your relationship with Todd? Is it open marriage and, ‘I picked a girl for you to make out with and I did this,’ or is it, ‘I love him, he’s my person, I’m monogamous?’” she wondered. “I don’t really understand. It feels like it flip-flops a lot … I mean, the truth is, I’m not that deeply invested in her relationship with Todd. I’m invested in the stories she tells us about him and if they’re true or not.”
Moving on to her three-part special, Surviving Mormonism, Heather admitted she didn’t know how her family felt about her sharing her experiences with the controversial religion.
“They won’t tell me. I have no contact. I have one brother that lives in Zurich, and he’ll be super supportive. He’s left the church after I did on the show,” she shared. “[But] I felt honored to hear their stories … It did feel like it was cathartic and therapeutic for me. It almost felt selfish that I was like, going through the process with them.”
Later, while appearing on the WWHL: After Show, Heather was asked how Lisa’s alleged leaks are different than those of Monica Garcia, 42, who was exposed for having ties to the Reality Von Tease fan page at the end of season four.
“Monica didn’t have tea to leak because Monica wasn’t our friend. Monica had built a blog to tear us down with no actual facts … so it’s completely different,” she explained.
Heather then added that while she and her castmates “love and have tremendous respect for Lisa,” they “also know that she leaks stories to the media.”