Porsha Williams has formally returned to Bravo and The Real Housewives of Atlanta, making a splash at Bravo Fan Fest Miami.
Williams left RHOA in 2021, and though followers bought a life replace on Peacock’s Final Women Journey Season 3 in 2023, lots has been occurring in her life ever since.
“I’ve been having an excellent time. I’ve been having fun with life,” Williams instructed Deadline. “Life has its ups and downs and per normal, simply pushing by means of and it’s been superb. I like being a mother. My little daughter, Pilar, is 5 now, and that’s actually my full time job.”
DEADLINE: Talking of Pilar, we not too long ago noticed on social media that you just’re filming confessionals together with her father, Dennis.
WILLIAMS: (laughing) Ooh, I believed I deleted — I posted and deleted. I used to be like, am I giving [the fans] an excessive amount of?”
DEADLINE: How has filming with Dennis been like and can we be seeing extra of him this upcoming season?
WILLIAMS: I’m excited he’s filming with me. I’m glad that our household unit is being proven as a result of though it’s reality TV for leisure, that is my actual life and at first components of the season, you’re gonna see what I’m truly going by means of. I’d say a very powerful factor to me is having that household unit, being a terrific co-parent, and with the ability to present that unity throughout the transition with Pilar. I can say that I’m enthusiastic about the place we’re, as a result of it’s vital for her to have that.
DEADLINE: Additionally becoming a member of you this season, who haven’t seen on Actual Housewives of Atlanta since Season 9, is your Frick and Frack partner-in-crime, Phaedra Parks. How was that reunion been?
WILLIAMS: Oh, my God, after I inform you I wished Phaedra again day one in every of filming, however I’ve to say, I used to be glad when she lastly did come. It’s good as a result of it’s all the time good vitality. It’s all the time enjoyable, it’s light-hearted. As darkish as life will be typically, you want to have that mild and Frick and Frack is all the time going to carry the nice instances. We’re all the time going to return in and snicker at what shouldn’t be laughed at, and benefit from the good issues in life and never think about the unhealthy. I simply love that she’s again.
DEADLINE: You two hadn’t been filming collectively for some time. What was the dynamic like filming and dealing collectively once more?
WILLIAMS: The factor about Frick and Frack is, we’ve the kind of friendship the place we don’t have to speak [to each other] every single day, and we positively haven’t filmed collectively in some years, however after I inform you, it’s like a day hasn’t been misplaced. As quickly as we bought collectively, you’d have thought we’ve been collectively each single day. And [she’s] the kind of buddy that you understand the friendship is actual – we’re locked in.
DEADLINE: Early on within the season, we additionally noticed pictures of you and frenemy Kenya Moore circulating, indicating that you just two had been on good phrases. Since she left the sequence halfway by means of filming, are you two nonetheless in touch?
WILLIAMS: I’m nonetheless in touch with Kenya and I’m nonetheless hopeful that she will be able to work it out with the solid and with the community and discover a manner ahead. I used to be actually excited for the viewers to see our development, as a result of out of every little thing, it was tremendous real. It was [very much] Huge Sis, Little Sis vitality that anyone would have the ability to relate to. I positively hated that it didn’t work out, however typically you must pay for a few of your errors and are available round on the tip.
DEADLINE: Talking about Little Sis, are you continue to in contact with former Bravo’s Chat Room co-host and Summer season Home alum, Hannah Berner?
WILLIAMS: After all, I like Hannah Berner. I’m so hoping that Hannah Berner [and] Gizelle Bryant, we get again collectively and convey again Chat Room. Everyone DMs me [and] tweets me on a regular basis about Chat Room. So please, let’s signal a petition and get it to return again.
DEADLINE: It might work nice as an in-studio present.
WILLIAMS: Simply think about what all of us three can be doing in particular person [and] in a studio, it could be insane. We didn’t need to be produced in any respect. We had nice producers, however [it was just them] telling us the themes — we might simply rift. That’s how pure it was with all of us. All of us come from completely different walks of life, however it was simply magic and I hope we carry it again sooner or later.
DEADLINE: Lastly, while you had been introduced as returning to Actual Housewives of Atlanta, the announcement included an overall scripted talent deal with NBCU Entertainment. Has there been any progress on that venture?
WILLIAMS: I can’t truly converse on a number of the tasks, as a result of within the TV world, you don’t converse on it till it’s introduced, however there was a number of motion. There’s a present that will probably be popping out subsequent yr, and sure, I’ve positively stepped again into the appearing area, and I do have one thing developing, per normal on this world, you’ll be able to’t discuss till it’s introduced.
