Kandi Burrus' mother feels exploited by Bravo and says she only appeared on Real Housewives of Atlanta to give her daughter a storyline...
From Ebony Mag
"...Kandi don’t take care of me,” Mama Joyce clarifies. “I’ve been on disability, Social Security, and plus I have rental property. And anybody that knows me knows that I’ve always had my own money.”
Ask her if she feels she’s being exploited on television, and she will definitively respond, “I do.” Ask if she’s being paid for her appearances on the hit show and she’ll pointedly respond, “No, I’m not.”
“Look,” she explains, “I haven’t gotten a penny from Bravo. They got me [as] the main person and I done trended on [Twitter] two weeks in a row and every damn thing. People keep saying ‘You’re a celebrity,’ and I ask, ‘How the hell am I a celebrity?’ I’m the most unpaid celebrity there is. I’m looking in the Us Weekly and I have a picture and I say, ‘How am I getting all of this attention? I’m not a celebrity!’ ”
Joyce Jones elaborates about how she promised herself she wouldn’t show up on Real Housewives anymore after her initial appearances because she wasn’t being compensated, or even reimbursed for transportation to get to and fro. The show’s producer Carlos King (a former Love & Hip-Hop producer) convinced her to appear more on Real Housewives, telling her viewer demand was high and Kandi needed a storyline. “And I said, ‘Well, for Kandi, I’ll come back for her because I’ll do anything for my daughter.”
