Kim Zolciak tells ESSENCE.com how she and the other housewives are supporting their friend through this sad and awful time in her life, why she missed Kandi’s comeback performance, and puts to bed the rumors about her engagement to Big Papa.

ESSENCE.COM: How is Kandi doing? Have you spoken to her?
KIM ZOLCIAK: I spoke with her mom and texted her just to let her know I’m here. I was one of the first to find out and I called the other ladies. Everybody has been fantastic but it’s unfortunate that it takes a tragedy to bring us all together. We were able to put all our stuff on the back burner and come together for Kandi. It’s not something that I ever thought would happen, no matter how tragic the situation.

ESSENCE.COM: What was your interaction with A.J like?
ZOLCIAK: He actually called me last week and I never called him back, which sucks. I adored him. He was such a great guy. He was actually with Big Papa the night I got engaged. I hated that people have this bad impression of him because he had so many children. He was a great father and he was great with Riley [Kandi's 7-year-old daughter] and he loved Kandi.

ESSENCE.COM: There’s been some buzz about why you didn’t show up to Kandi’s performance. What happened?
ZOLCIAK: My daughter Brielle was sick and that’s when swine flu was going rampant. I don’t have a nanny at night. I told Kandi I wasn’t able to come. I’m not that kind of friend to just not show up. Kandi has been an incredible friend to me, and the way it came across was that I didn’t make any effort and that’s just not true.
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Kandi just lost the man she loved and had plans to marry to violence. I feel so sorry for her. This is what she wrote on Twitter about AJ’s death and her pain:
I”m just in one of those moods where i dont wanna talk, i dont wanna b held & told its gonna b ok. i just wanna cry myself 2 sleep, alone. I could never n a million years imagine this happening. please pray for AJ’s children. that’s who im the most concerned 4. I’m bout 2 giv my swollen eyes sum rest now. i just wanted to say thanks 2 every1 for their prayers. I gotta get up & go 2 my uncle’s funeral.

Stay strong Kandi, we know its hard.

Let’s be serious, we like to laugh at NeNe and talk about her but there is absolutely nothing that I want to hear from her musically. How are you gonna hate Kim so much but you want to be involved in her project so bad that you make an ass out of yourself?

Kim Zolciaks new song, Don’t Be Tardy For The Party.

NeNe stepped in front of the camera to portray a pole-dancing stripper and a reluctant socialite tipper.

Kim chose to pose as a mistress and her lover’s scorned wife at a Laundromat.

Kandi, whose friends were involved in a drunk-driving accident, decided send a message, portraying an intoxicated clubber who got behind the wheel and her victim.

Lisa Wu Hartwell poses as a punk and a goody-goody Girl Scout.

Making light of her much-hyped “seven-figure” divorce settlement, the She by Sheree designer posed as a fashionista and a robber.

Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta is going topless, sounds normal and not to far fetched right? Well Kim is showing off her twins but this time it’s for a good cause, NOH8, the campaign against the ban on same-sex marriage.
Kim wrote this on Twitter:
“The noh8 campaign shoot was hot. and I am topless!!! Just to cause a stir to make people pay attention!”

Do any of these housewives own their homes?

“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Lynne Curtin has gotten kicked out of the home she lived in while taping the reality show! It was reported that the Curtin’s owed their landord and the agent who helped them get the property over $12,000. The landlord also said their utilities were cut off. Now Lynne is allegedly getting a divorce—-money gone so is she!
I bet she’s comforting herself saying “this aint sh!t compared to the Atlanta housewife’s”….lol
In other housewife news, look at Ramona’s new haircut……….. (more…)