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Phaedra Parks may be gone from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” but she doesn’t appear to miss the drama-filled reality show.
“I have no desire to,” she told TMZ when asked if she’d ever return to the show. “I mean, I’ve turned the page. I love being happy. I love living drama-free. My kids are happy and I am able to enjoy life.”
She added that the toxic nature of the show affected her health: “It made me sick sometimes,” she said. “You know, it’s a lot to deal with.”
Parks was fired from the Bravo franchise earlier this year for spreading lies about castmate Kandi Burruss.
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“She got caught in so many treacherous lies this season that even the producers (including Andy Cohen) have had enough,” a source told B. Scott at the time. “She even brought ‘fake’ divorce papers to the reunion to prove a point. No one knows whether she’s telling the truth about anything anymore.”
But Parks seems happy with her new life: “Any woman who does reality should be congratulated and praised because honey, it’s a lot to it and people don’t really understand it until they’ve tried it.”