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Kandi Burruss says Todd Tucker’s new project is “drag Kandi to sell my tickets.”
Kandi Burruss has weighed in on her ex-husband Todd Tucker’s post-divorce project, ’Til Divorce Do Us Part, and she is not buying the framing. In a sit-down interview clip circulating widely among Real Housewives of Atlanta fans, the singer and former Bravo star accuses Tucker of using her name and their history to move tickets.
Kandi Burruss Says Todd Tucker’s New Project a ‘Drag Kandi To Sell My Tickets’
“It’s drag Kandi to sell my tickets. That’s basically what it is,” Burruss said.
The clip comes as Tucker promotes ticketed screenings and live Q&As around his self-produced film and series. Promotional material has positioned the project as the other side of the story after Burruss’s own “I Do. I Did. I’m Done.” tour and public comments about their split.
The project that sparked the latest round
Tucker, a former RHOA producer who left the show to date Burruss, released a trailer in September 2026 for ’Til Divorce Do Us Part. In it, he discusses the aftermath of their marriage ending, including dark moments after the split. One of the most circulated moments features fellow RHOA alum Peter Thomas asking whether Tucker and Burruss had threesomes during their marriage. Tucker replies that they did “for most of” their nearly 12-year relationship.
Burruss responded at the time in a statement to People, calling the disclosure an attempt to “sensationalize our sex life to stretch his five minutes of fame.” She did not deny that consensual threesomes happened. She objected to him putting private marital details back in public after the divorce. “What consensually happens between a husband and wife in the privacy of their marriage is exactly that—private,” she said. “His current behavior has only confirmed that I did the right thing by getting divorced. I Do, I Did, I’m Done!”
How they got here
Burruss and Tucker met in 2011 while he worked as a line producer on Season 4 of RHOA. They got engaged in 2013, married in April 2014 (the wedding was filmed for the Bravo spinoff Kandi’s Wedding), and share two children, Ace and Blaze. Each also has an adult daughter from a previous relationship.
Burruss filed for divorce in November 2025 after what she later described as a specific turning-point situation in July 2025. The split included a custody dispute before they reached a settlement in March 2026. They agreed to joint physical and legal custody. Under the deal, Burruss paid Tucker a six-figure equalization amount and he moved out of her home. Their parenting plan also requires written consent before either parent puts the children in filmed or commercial content.
Months after the divorce was finalized, the former couple still vacationed together with their kids, presenting a relatively cooperative co-parenting picture in public. The latest trailer and ticketed events have put that truce under strain again.
Can she control the story?
That is the question the clip’s poster put to viewers: Do you think Kandi can control how Todd Tucker tells his story?
Legally, the answer is mostly no. Once a marriage is over, neither spouse owns the other person’s memories or narrative. Tucker is entitled to talk about his experience, just as Burruss has talked about hers through music, a tour, interviews, and Bravo. What she can do is refuse to participate, issue statements, and remind audiences that his project is being sold, in part, on her fame.
That is exactly the line she drew in the interview. In her view, the project is not a standalone story about a man processing divorce. It is a product that needs her name on the poster to fill seats.
Fans in the replies split along familiar Housewives lines. Some called her hypocritical given how much of their marriage already played out on television and in her own stage work. Others said airing intimate details after the papers are signed is a different move than living a public marriage while it was still intact.
Either way, the pattern is clear. Their relationship started on a reality show, was documented through a wedding special, survived years of Bravo storylines, ended in a public divorce, and is now generating competing ticketed products. “Drag Kandi to sell my tickets” is Burruss’s blunt summary of the latest chapter. Tucker’s camp would likely say he is simply telling his side. Audiences will decide which version they are willing to pay for.
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Todd Tucker is telling his side of the story. In a candid interview tied to his forthcoming docuseries Til Divorce Do Us Part, the producer and former Real Housewives of Atlanta fixture detailed the isolation that followed his split from Kandi Burruss, addressed her public frustration over comments about their sex life, and described the relief of no longer having her mother, Mama Joyce Jones, as a daily presence.
The couple married in April 2014 after meeting on Season 4 of RHOA. They share son Ace, 10, and daughter Blaze, 6, and each has an adult daughter from a previous relationship. Burruss announced she was moving forward with divorce in November 2025; they settled in March 2026 with joint legal and physical custody.
Isolation, dark thoughts, and rebuilding
Tucker, 53, said that after the separation he stayed in the guesthouse on the property while his family was next door. The alone time was heavy. “It was a lot of time in my head, thinking, trying to figure out, ‘What did I just do? What just happened? Did I lose my family?’ So I’m gonna be honest, I had nobody really to lean on,” he told Page Six.
Kandi Burruss asks Todd Tucker to stop ‘sensationalizing’ their sex life.
He reiterated a moment he also discusses in the docuseries: during especially painful stretches, he “looked at [his] gun.” He said he snapped out of it by focusing on his children. “No, you have a family. You have kids that you have to see them through.” He has been attending church and plans to start therapy as he works on “rebuilding myself” and being the best co-parent he can.
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Tucker framed the project as his counterpart to Burruss’s “I Do. I Did. I’m Done.” tour. He said men often carry stress until it becomes a health crisis, and he wanted to model getting it out without bashing anyone. After this, he said, he plans to fade from the conversation and focus on films and other projects.
The threesome comments
A trailer moment that drew Burruss’s sharp response showed RHOA alum Peter Thomas asking Tucker about threesomes. Tucker replied that they had, “for most of our marriage.” Burruss later said he was “choosing to sensationalize [their] sex life to stretch his five minutes of fame” and that what happens between spouses is private.
Tucker pushed back. He noted that Burruss had spoken about their intimate life on RHOA, on Kandi Koated Nights, and through her Bedroom Kandi line—often without consulting him first. “I’m not throwing out there any new information,” he said. “It was just a conversation.” He asked rhetorically how private their marital sex life could be after years of her own public comments.
What ended the marriage, according to Todd
Tucker was vague about the specific “incident” involving another woman that he says led Burruss to end things; he said he will elaborate in the docuseries. Friends suggested flowers. He said the problems were bigger than that and set up therapy. In his view, she wanted the immediate issue fixed first; he wanted to address the overall relationship. When he felt she was not willing to fight for it with him, he “bowed out.” He added that he had made vows to stay foreverand would have done so.1
He does not fully blame reality television but said it “played a part.” On co-parenting, he said they put anger aside for the kids and that there is “never any tension” when it comes to Ace and Blaze
Mama Joyce and the “weight lifted”
Tucker said he “allowed a lot of disrespect” from Burruss’s mother, Mama Joyce, over the years while trying to prove himself to someone who did not like him. Not having her directly in his life now “feels like a weight lifted off his shoulders.” He still encourages the children to stay connected to their grandmother.
He is not dating. He said he needs time to get himself together before he can be a good partner to someone else.
Tucker is premiering the docuseries alongside his film Don’t Bring Your Man to Atlanta at an AMC Theatres event next month. After years of being labeled on Housewives without speaking much, he said he simply wanted to be heard—then go quiet.
The public back-and-forth continues a very public chapter for two people who built a blended family, businesses, and a long on-camera life together. Tucker’s version emphasizes loneliness, accountability to his kids, and the right to tell his side. Burruss has emphasized privacy, peace, and that his recent comments confirmed her decision to leave. Both say the children come first.
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Todd Tucker is trying to have it both ways. Days after his ex-wife Kandi Burruss accused him of “sensationalizing” their sex life for attention, the former Real Housewives of Atlanta producer sat down on Yung Joc & The Streetz Morning Takeover and offered something that sounded like an apology — and something that sounded like a rebuttal.
The clip spreading Thursday frames the moment simply: Tucker apologizes after revealing private details about their marriage, including that the couple had threesomes for most of their 11 years together.
Todd Tucker Addresses Kandi Burruss After Airing Their Sex Life — Then Softens the Blow On Radio
The fuller interview is more complicated. He says he never wanted a public smear campaign. He also says Burruss’s statement is “not accurate,” and that he will not accept that kind of disrespect from her camp again.
How the latest fight started
The spark was not the radio interview. It was a trailer.
On September 14, Tucker posted promotional footage for ’Til Divorce Do Us Part, a self-produced project about his life after the split. In the clip, fellow RHOA alum Peter Thomas — Cynthia Bailey’s ex-husband — asks whether Tucker and Burruss really had threesomes. Tucker does not hedge.
“We did,” he says. “I would say for most of our marriage we did.”
Thomas’s punchline — that he is “a saint” by comparison — is what made the moment travel. Within 48 hours, the quote was everywhere: People, Page Six, Us Weekly, Bravo’s Daily Dish. The marketing around Tucker’s project made the framing even sharper. Promotional copy has sold the series as the other side of Burruss’s story: “Kandi’s tour gave you one side. This is the other side. What she didn’t say. What went down behind closed doors.”
Burruss answered the next day in a statement to People. She did not deny that consensual threesomes happened. She objected to him putting them back in public after the divorce.
“A man who has already hurt me to my core is furthering the damage by choosing to sensationalize our sex life to stretch his five minutes of fame,” she said. “What consensually happens between a husband and wife in the privacy of their marriage is exactly that — private. His current behavior has only confirmed that I did the right thing by getting divorced. I Do, I Did, I’m Done!”
The last line is a callback to her one-woman show about the end of the marriage. That is part of why this fight feels circular. Both of them have already turned the divorce into content. The argument now is over who crossed the line, and by how much.
What Tucker actually said on the radio
On Thursday’s Streetz Morning Takeover appearance with Yung Joc, Mz Shyneka, and Shawty Shawty, Tucker walked through the backlash and then delivered a message aimed at Burruss.
He argued that the threesome comment was not a new confession. Burruss has talked about bringing other people into their sex life before, including on her Kandi Koated Nights platform. In Tucker’s telling, the trailer was a “normal conversation,” not a hyped tell-all. “I haven’t given out any new information,” he said. “I’m not doing a tell-all book or nothing like that. I’m just talking about my emotions and feelings as I went through a divorce.”
Then he read her statement on air and rejected it.
“That statement is not accurate,” he said. “If you’ve been talking about threesomes the whole time, how are you saying it’s private now?” He also said he is “not trying to bash her” or “hurt her.” Clips circulating from the same interview go further: Tucker says Burruss needs to fire “the whole team” over the wording, and that he will never take that kind of disrespect from her family or team again.
The apology, such as it is, comes at the end. Looking toward camera, he said he did not want any of this, would never smear her name, and would “never say nothing foul.”
“She would forever be my people. That’s it. 100%.”
He also said he would not have left the marriage. “I think we needed some work, but no. I would have never left.” He described the divorce as one of the worst experiences of his life, second only to his mother’s death, and said he is going to church and planning to start therapy. “Brothers, we got to talk. We got to get it off our chest.”
That is the version of the interview now traveling as an apology. It is less a clean “I’m sorry I said it” than a “I didn’t mean to hurt you, and I still consider you family.” For some listeners, that distinction will not matter. For others, it will be the whole story.
The marriage they keep relitigating
Tucker and Burruss met in 2011 while he was working as a line producer on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. They got engaged in 2013 and married in April 2014 in a ceremony Bravo turned into Kandi’s Wedding. They share two children, Ace, 10, and Blaze, 6. Burruss also has daughter Riley from a previous relationship; Tucker has daughter Kaela.
Burruss announced the split on November 21, 2025, saying the decision came after “deep thought and a lot of prayer” and that her focus was peace, co-parenting, and her own growth. She later told Andy Cohen she knew the marriage was over months before the public announcement, pointing to a July 2025 incident she has not detailed. The divorce was finalized in March 2026. Reports on the settlement have described joint legal and physical custody and a lump-sum payment from Burruss to Tucker of about $426,000.
Even after the paperwork was done, they did not fully disappear from each other’s lives. In June, Burruss posted from a family vacation with Tucker and the kids. In one clip, she panned to him poolside with a Daily Prayers for Men book and joked that she never saw that version of him during nearly 12 years of marriage. “He should’ve started praying a long time ago,” she said. When a fan asked if reconciliation was coming, she shut it down: “Nah, I am not healed.”
That is the awkward backdrop to this week. They are co-parents. They are also two public figures still mining the same relationship for separate projects.
Why the “privacy” argument cut so deep
The threesome talk is not, strictly speaking, a secret in RHOA lore. Burruss has acknowledged at times that she and Tucker experimented in their marriage. She has also spent years batting away specific rumors, including a 2019 claim involving friend Shamea Morton that she denied. What changed is the timing and the packaging.
During the marriage, talking about their sex life was part of the brand. After the divorce, Burruss’s position is that consent to the act is not consent to the press tour. Tucker’s position is that she already put the subject in the public record, and that his project is about his feelings, not a sex recap.
Both things can be true at once. A couple can have discussed an open bedroom on reality TV and still feel exposed when one of them repeats it, months after the split, in a trailer designed to sell tickets. That is why the internet reaction split so quickly. Some viewers heard Burruss drawing a reasonable post-divorce boundary. Others heard Tucker pointing out a double standard. On X, replies to the radio clips included both: that he should not be discussing the mother of his children’s private sex life, and that nobody would watch his documentary if Kandi’s name were not attached to it.
Tucker is not pretending the attention is accidental. He is taking ’Til Divorce Do Us Part and his film Don’t Bring Your Man to Atlanta on a multi-city theater tour, with New York dates listed for October 2–4. The radio hit was also a promo stop. He can say he is processing a divorce in public and still be using the most viral detail from the marriage to get people in the door. Those motives are not mutually exclusive.
What this moment actually reveals
The X post that prompted this article captured the headline people wanted: Todd apologizes. The interview underneath it is a familiar post-reality-TV maneuver. Acknowledge the hurt. Reject the characterization. Keep the project moving.
Tucker wants credit for not “smearing” Burruss while continuing to build a tour around the idea that her version of the story left things out. Burruss wants the bedroom declared off-limits now that the marriage is over, after years of a public life in which almost nothing stayed off-limits. Their children still have to live in the space between those two strategies.
If there is a real apology in Thursday’s interview, it is this much: Tucker says he did not want the war, would not have chosen the divorce, and still considers Burruss “his people.” If there is a real limit to that apology, it is everything else he said in the same hour — that her statement is wrong, that her team bungled it, and that the trailer did not reveal anything the audience had not already been invited to wonder about.
The marriage is over. The argument about who gets to narrate it is not.
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Months after his marriage to Kandi Burruss was officially dissolved, Todd Tucker is no longer pretending the split has been easy.
Appearing on V103’s Big Tigger Morning Show, the producer and former Real Housewives of Atlanta fixture dropped the polished public-facing version of post-divorce life and admitted he is still struggling. “I’m f*ed up,” he said. “You mask it with hanging out, drinking, and all of the st, you know. But I’m working through it.”
Todd Tucker Speaks Out on Divorce From Kandi Burruss
He added that the outward image does not match the private reality. “It looks good,” Tucker said of how the split can appear from the outside. “You gotta save face.” Then he spelled out what changed: “I went from being at home with my family every day. The dog, the kids, the nanny, the wife, and now I’m by myself, pretty much.”
“I don’t think people understand divorce,” he continued. “I lost my person. I still lost my person, and I lost my family as I knew it.” Seeing Ace and Blaze on an every-other-week schedule after years of a full house, he said, has been one of the hardest adjustments.
Tucker and Burruss met while filming Season 4 of RHOA in 2011, got engaged in 2013, and married in April 2014. They share son Ace and daughter Blaze. Burruss is also mom to Riley from a previous relationship; Tucker has daughter Kaela from a previous relationship. Burruss filed for divorce in November 2025 after 11 years of marriage, saying a specific incident that July convinced her she could not continue. The case included a contested custody fight before the pair reached a settlement in March 2026. They now share joint legal and physical custody. Burruss paid Tucker a lump-sum property equalization of roughly $426,000; neither side receives ongoing child or spousal support.
Asked why the marriage ended, Tucker declined to assign a single cause. “I think there was a lot that happened. We could say, ‘Well, this is why,’ but it was a journey,” he said. “It’s not really about, you know, her part of it is her business.” He described his upcoming project ’Til Divorce Do Us Part as a way to process the emotions rather than a tell-all.
The most striking moment in the interview involved Riley. Tucker said they spoke at a party Kaela hosted at his New Jersey home. Riley told him, “Go get my mom back.” “It was one of those moments where you can’t even get the words out,” he recalled.
Riley has separately described the year as one of adaptation. “A divorce happens between two people, but it affects more than just those two people,” she has said. “It’s tough at times, it’s easy at times, it’s confusing. I’m still learning.” She has also said Tucker still supports her, even as the family dynamic is “not the same.”
Burruss has been consistent that reconciliation is not on the table. Promoting her one-woman show I Do. I Did. I’m Done., she previously shut down jokes that she might not be finished and said she is keeping the Burruss-Tucker hyphenate for the children. The former couple have still shown up together for the kids, including a Bahamas vacation months after the divorce was finalized.
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Tucker’s comments land in a familiar place for public divorces: two people who once built a life together, now navigating separate houses, shared children, and very different public narratives about what the marriage was and why it ended. He is not claiming the story is simple. He is saying the loss is real, the nights are quieter than they used to be, and the work of getting through it is still underway.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta drama never really stays on the stage. Even after leaving the show, Kandi Burruss found herself pulled back into the mix when K. Michelle’s “Mean Girls of Atlanta” remark during the Season 17 reunion started circulating—and Kandi isn’t holding her tongue.
During Part 1 of the RHOA Season 17 reunion, Shamea Morton explained that certain women in her circle (referencing Kandi and others) weren’t thrilled about her growing close to K. Michelle. K. Michelle’s response? A pointed “The Mean Girls of Atlanta.” While she didn’t name Kandi directly, the timing and context left little room for interpretation in many viewers’ eyes—and clearly in Kandi’s.
Kandi Responds to K. Michelle’s Mean Girls of Atlanta Comment
Kandi addressed the shade head-on during an appearance on The Big Tigger Morning Show. When co-host Francesca Amiker brought up the reports that K. Michelle had labeled her a “mean girl,” the longtime RHOA alum kept it straightforward:
“I personally feel that mean girls can’t call other girls mean girls. It doesn’t work like that,” Kandi said. She added that if she’s being called a mean girl, then K. Michelle has been one too, pointing out the singer’s history of going after people on camera, calling them out of their names, and more. “If I’m a mean girl, she was a mean girl, too.”
Kandi also clarified her personal approach: “If you are not nice to me, I am not nice to you.” She described herself as a straightforward Taurus who matches energy rather than seeking out conflict.
The clip of her response quickly spread across X (including the one shared by accounts like @TheRhoaTalk), reigniting talk of the longstanding friction between K. Michelle and parts of Atlanta’s entertainment circle.
K. Michelle’s response and the deeper history
K. Michelle wasted little time firing back on X. She denied ever calling Kandi a mean girl specifically, writing that she’s “been calling the same two girls mean girls for years”—widely understood by fans to refer to longtime points of tension with Rasheeda Frost and Toya Wright (both connected to the broader Atlanta scene and Kandi’s orbit).
She didn’t stop there, throwing additional shade at the morning show host with a jab about someone allegedly calling Kandi “Tigger’s side piece.”
This latest exchange isn’t coming out of nowhere. The underlying issues between K. Michelle and Kandi’s circle stretch back years in Atlanta’s music and reality TV world. Kandi has long been known for her loyalty to her friends, including Rasheeda, with whom K. Michelle has had public and private clashes. Earlier in Season 17, tensions flared when Shamea left a hangout with K. Michelle to meet Kandi—without inviting the new Housewife—prompting questions about why certain doors stayed closed. Shamea later noted Kandi’s fierce loyalty as a factor.
Fans have also pointed to older drama involving mutual acquaintances and public accusations that have kept the sides from fully aligning. While Kandi and K. Michelle have both spoken respectfully of each other’s music careers at times, the personal and social circles have remained complicated.
For now, Kandi has made her position clear without diving into a full-blown war of words: energy gets matched, and labels like “mean girl” cut both ways. With the RHOA reunion still fresh and K. Michelle continuing to address the fallout, this chapter of Atlanta drama shows no signs of quieting down anytime soon.
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