At the cease of a long solar day, sometimes the best way to feel like you're living your best life is with some comfortable PJ's, a glass of vino, and gratis reality television. In our series"Not-And then-Guilty Pleasures," we remove the "guilt" and break downwardly the latest happenings in your favorite Boob tube indulgences.

  • Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes has a long history with her married man, Gregg Leakes.
  • The pair married in 1997, filed for divorce in 2011, and so remarried in 2013.
  • On the bear witness, nosotros've seen NeNe have care of Gregg equally he battled colon cancer.
  • Season 12 of the striking Bravo show premiered on November three and we expect additional updates about their relationship.

Since 2008, NeNe Leakes has been a staple on the Real Housewives of Atlanta (save for a few seasons). And despite just how dramatic the lives of the Bravo superstars can get, her husband, Gregg Leakes, has stood by her side—fifty-fifty every bit they experienced their own turmoil. Together, they allowed viewers to learn about about every aspect of their relationship. Audiences were shocked when they filed for divorce in 2011, but even more shocked when they remarried in 2013. Of course, their situation intensified when Gregg was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2018—and ultimately vanquish it.

But earlier we run across how their dynamic has changed during flavor 12, let's go back to the start.

1996: NeNe and Gregg meet.

At the time, NeNe was 28 and worked every bit an exotic dancer while Gregg persuaded her to exit that job. During an episode of RHOA, notwithstanding, NeNe got a piffling more detailed about their early days.

"You and me exchanged number, and he left me a voicemail and he was like, 'Give Big Daddy a call.' And I was like, 'Oh, hell, no!'" she said. "He said, 'I'ma ally you one twenty-four hours.' I said, 'Uh uh uh!' He did not ask me to slumber with him. Actually, I was thinking to myself, similar, 'Now, what'due south going on?' And from that point on, I was just in the bed with no clothes on."

1997: They walk down the alley.

Bravo shared throwback footage from their original hymeneals in 1997. "I am the virtually happy man in the earth—happiest, rather—to have a beautiful wife similar NeNe. I love her with all my middle. I await forrad to making her happy the rest of my life," Gregg says in a video.

"I have been with Gregg since 1996 so it'south been about twenty years or so," NeNe told TV One's Uncensored in 2018. "Gregg and I went through a bumpy route I would say for nearly 2 years. I was very young when I started dating Gregg and he had been married before. I had never been married earlier and he had children from his previous marriage and I had one child. So we got engaged really quick, similar half dozen months in, and we were married like a year subsequently."

February 20, 1999: NeNe and Gregg welcome Brentt Leakes.

When audiences first met Brentt in 2008, he was a shy nine-year-erstwhile and we've since watched him abound into an developed. "A rex entered the globe on this date later on a total twenty-four hour period of labor and changed my life forever!" Nene wrote to celebrated his 20th birthday in February.

Separately, NeNe is mom to Bryson Bryant from a previous relationship, while Gregg is dad to five other children.

2008: Existent Housewives of Atlanta premieres, catapulting NeNe to stardom.

The commencement few seasons of Atlanta were explosive, and NeNe became a household name with her no-holds-barred attitude and sassy comebacks. But the evidence also put a magnifying glass on her marriage to Gregg, and things were far from perfect. The third flavor of the show showcased the downfall of their matrimony, with NeNe meeting with a divorce attorney and Gregg venting to a radio host well-nigh their relationship.

2011: NeNe and Gregg divorce.

Afterwards 14 years together, NeNe and Gregg filed for divorce. The third and fourth seasons of RHOA followed the road to their breakup, equally Gregg claimed that fame had gotten to NeNe'south head. NeNe opened up to Television set Ane'due south Uncensored about her conclusion to finally leave him: "We were super tight, good friends—I hateful, nosotros've e'er been that way through me ever knowing Gregg. I think a lot of people were surprised when I filed for divorce. I filed for divorce because I always felt like yous have to teach people how to treat y'all and I felt similar at that time that Gregg wasn't treating me the way I felt I should be treated. Information technology was me pedagogy Gregg a lesson, and I call up he got it."

2012: They begin seeing each other once again.

During season 5, we meet Gregg piece of work to try to get her back. But she tried to keep details private, telling Us Weekly at the time that she was single. "You know, nosotros're divorced. I'g unmarried and not looking. Love is cute thing and marriage is a beautiful affair," she said.

January 1, 2013: NeNe and Gregg get engaged.

NeNe told Jimmy Fallon that she was not only back with her ex, only they were headed down the aisle—once more. "Well…a lilliputian subsequently midnight," Nene shared to Fallon, "I was asked this beautiful question: Volition y'all marry me—again?" And she said yeah.

June 22, 2013: They become married—again.

NeNe remarried Gregg at the InterContinental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, and the consequence was documented on Bravo'southward I Dream of NeNe: The Nuptials.

I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding - Season 1

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June 2015: NeNe skips flavour 8 of RHOA.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta - Season 11

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"This was definitely a hard decision for me," Leakes told People at the fourth dimension. "Me and my husband [Gregg Leakes] have been going back and forth on it for weeks now. Just my contract is upwards and I just think this is the correct time. This is my opportunity to spread my wings and exercise different things."

Jan 2016: NeNe makes the first of many guest appearances on the show.

Guess she couldn't stay abroad for long.

November 2017: NeNe returns equally a full-time housewife.

FOX's "MasterChef Celebrity Showdown"

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The OG peach-holder returned to flavour 10 ready to throw all the shade. That twelvemonth, she and Gregg besides appeared on MasterChef Glory Showdown, where they lost to Empire's Trai Byers and Grace Gealey in the tag team challenge.

June 2018: Gregg is diagnosed with stage three colon cancer.

"Our New Normal and the fight begins," NeNe captioned an Instagram post of her husband, revealing he had been diagnosed with phase 3 colon cancer.

Nene was open about struggling to support her husband while he suffered and underwent chemotherapy on the show. At the fourth dimension, they slept in separate bedrooms.

"We always hurt the ones we Love.. because they permit us to hurt them rather than snap back," Gregg wrote on Instagram afterwards a particularly difficult episode of the series. "I'k tired of hurting my wife who is merely trying to accept skilful care of me and wants just the all-time for me too. She deserves much more for her difficult efforts and tireless hours spent on me. I Pray to God to get it together...She's done NO wrong… this is ALL on me……Cancer WILL change your Life."

The pair virtually divorced, but they seem to have gotten back on the correct rails. "Gregg, he's a supporter. He's always supported my career, and it only was difficult for him to support [when he was sick]," NeNe shared with Us. "I'm used to him existence there, and the fact that he wasn't there really hurt us because I was just like, 'I don't have him to go to for advice. I don't have him to do anything because he'southward sick in bed.' And information technology was really tough on us."

May 2019: Gregg is cancer free.

Nene shared an update about his health, expressing nothing merely gratitude: "We are over joyed to say, we saw the doctors for the results of Gregg's Pet Browse he took terminal calendar week!"

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