Charles Sykes/Bravo(NEW YORK) — Real Housewives of Atlanta newbie Claudia Jordan got into a nasty fight with co-star Nene Leakes during last Sunday’s episode when the ladies traveled to Puerto Rico. With Jordan trying to stand up for co-star Demetria McKinney, Leakes got heated with Jordan and said several below-the-belt comments. Jordan tells ABC News Radio she’s never been insulted like that before.
“I have never had another woman make so many derogatory comments about my lady parts and to tell me that I’m a whore,” she says. “One episode you don’t really know who I am. The next episode you know that I filed bankruptcy. You know I’m a whore. You know the conditions of my c***.”
“I thought that was really awkward! Like, I barely see the thing. So you know what’s going on with it?” Jordan quips.
The insult that stung the most was when Leakes called Jordan, who is bi-racial, a “half breed.”
“I just thought that was weird and a low blow and kind of desperate,” Jordan says of the comment. “And I think that Nene is kind of used to saying kind of vulgar, mean things and people kind of backing down because people are afraid of her. But I’m not afraid of her.”
Jordan also wasn’t phased because she’s been dealing with this type of discrimination all of her life.
“My mom’s from Italy. My dad’s black. I’ve always identified myself as a black woman but I’m also very open minded and sympathetic to both parts of my lineage. I guess you’d say,” Jordan explains. “I’m just really sick of being labeled by other people. I never really cared what the hell I was until other people try to make you choose a side — or you know when white folks would say, ‘You’re not like them.’ Or you know, sometimes black folks would make comments like, ‘You’re not black enough. You’re a halfie.’ That’s really a cruel thing to say to a kid.”
Jordan is also pushing back on some viewers who think she picked a fight with Leakes, as she’s been labeled boring in the past. Jordan said that’s not true, and that she simply wanted to stand up for McKinney, who tried to resolve her issues with several of the women at the dinner table, namely Phaedra Parks.
“Anyone who thinks I picked a fight with Nene did not watch the episode. I was extremely quiet at the dinner the entire time, letting grown women handle their business between the two grown women who were involved in the discussion,” she says. “It had nothing to do with me. And you could see by the looks on my face that I was just getting disgusted at how catty some of the other women were being — like side bar conversations, laughing while Demetria’s just basically trying to say, ‘Hey! I have an issue with you. Let’s put it out on the table and let’s move on.'”
Find out how the Puerto Rico dinner ended on next Sunday’s episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta. It airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo.
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