Porsha Williams didn’t bite her tongue on the Tuesday (November 30) episode of ‘Tamron Hall Show.’
There, the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ star – hot on the promo trail for her solo reality venture ‘Porsha Family Matters’ and memoir ‘The Pursuit of Porsha’ (on book shelves now) – dished on a number of hot topics including her controversial engagement to film producer Simon Guobadia, “abusive” relationship with R. Kelly, battling suicidal thoughts, and so much more.
Look inside to hear the revealing chat.
ON THE FIRST TIME SHE HAD SUICIDAL THOUGHTS:
“I had dealt with a lot of bullying in school…[but] I had a support system and that’s why I wanted to talk about it because it’s not just kids who’ve been neglected who find themselves in those dark places,” she said before later continuing, “All I can say at this moment, it was by the grace of God to save me in that moment because, as a child, you don’t think that once you stop your breath, it doesn’t come back. That’s why a lot of children, God rest their souls, are suffering from that now. A lot of kids have died from suicide. So I wanted to talk about that. But by passing through that [depression and suicidal thoughts] as a child, I kept facing those same demons over and over.”
ON HER “ABUSIVE” RELATIONSHIP WITH “PREDATOR” R. KELLY:
“He had just been one of the men who was a predator in my life, who had taken advantage of me and mentally abused me in my life. I saw him no different than those [other predatory men from my past]. That same darkness, the same treatment, they faced and met the same Porsha who didn’t know her self worth. I didn’t love myself. I didn’t see who I was in those situations. I was a grown woman. I had a penthouse in Buckhead, I had my own business. I wasn’t your usual so-called victim. But…I did not value who I was, that’s how I got myself into those situations.”
ON HER CONTROVERSIAL FIANCE:
“He’s Nigerian…it’s just called Nigerian culture. They are allowed and are open to having multiple wives. Some have two [wives],” she started before later continuing, “Simon has been in America since he was about 17 and I’m American, so we’re gonna have one wife and one husband. As far as the cheating goes, no one’s perfect. I cheated on my first boyfriend and that was a horrible experience. The point is to learn from those experiences and decide what kind of man you want to be and what kind of husband you actually want to be.”
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Watch the interview in full above.