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Kandi Burruss Abruptly Announces She's Quitting RHOA After 14 Seasons -- Causing Andy Cohen To Cry!

Kandi Burruss is leaving the Real Housewives of Atlanta after more than a decade grinding it out... and Andy Cohen is in his feels over it! On Sunday

Recalling the tumultuous summer of 2020, Cohen praised Burruss for helping the network get through a difficult period of social upheaval with patience, grace, and understanding: “During the summer of 2020, which was a reckoning for all of us on many levels, she wrote such a thoughtful letter to all of us at Bravo and truly original with some really valid and true thoughts about the way that we could be conducting business differently that might be just more inclusive, more positive, more meaningful and it led to a great conversation between she and the network, and I believe the network then, you know, took it seriously enough that they basically made them all action items and said, ‘well, we need to do all of this now.’ … She impacted not only the show, but she impacted the way that we do business behind the scenes and that is powerful, so I just, I think both of us were kind of crying a little bit at the end of the call the other day.” When news of her departure first came to Andy’s desk last week before it was revealed to the world on the red carpet, Cohen recalled how he spoke by phone with Kandi and her husband Todd Tucker:

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