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The Real Housewives of Atlanta is back for a 17th season, and with it comes two new wives, K. Michelle and Pinky Cole.
As Porsha Williams, Phaedra Parks, Drew Sidora, Shamea Morton, Angela Oakley, and Kelli Ferrell return in full-time roles and Cynthia Bailey reprises her status as a series “friend,” the ladies are experiencing plenty of drama as they face off with one another, explore new romances, and face personal challenges.
“I trust no lawyer that don’t practice the law,” K. Michelle says as the clip begins, seemingly in reference to Phaedra.
“I don’t trust no lawyer that eat dead people,” Pinky adds.
Then, in another scene, Phaedra asks, “I eat dead people?”
On a more serious note, Angela reveals to Porsha that Drew said she “was sleeping with a married man.”
“Oh, she wanna spread her own tea?” Porsha replies.
Pinky also gets shady with Angela, telling her, “I should’ve bought your foreclosed houses.”
“Okay, Mr. Clean, don’t do it, Papa Smurf,” Angela fires back.
On the relationship front, Porsha first introduces a mystery man, saying, “I didn’t expect God to send a six-five-tall man with big arms and tattoos,” and is later seen with her current girlfriend, Patrice “Sway” McKinney, who she claims is her “friend.”
“Sometimes we play the field too much, and then we look up, and we like, ‘What happened?’” Sway warns Porsha during a dinner date.
After K. Michelle introduces her husband, Dr. Kastan Sims, she opens up about the hardships she’s facing in her career.
“I’m on the biggest country music label, and I don’t think people understand that pressure, being the only Black woman,” she tells her spouse.
Meanwhile, Pinky touts her success, explaining, “I’m one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in America. I built this 100-million-dollar brand,” in one scene, and adding, “Behind every great man is an even better woman,” in another.
Elsewhere, after Shamea tells husband Gerald Mwangi, “I want to own my own things at this point in my life,” and Angela cries about the “hardest year of [her] life,” Porsha goes head-to-head with Kelli, confronting her about “[sleeping] with a married man,” which Kelli denies.
Then, after Drew is seen with her “friend” Black, who presents her with a bouquet of roses, and K. Michelle alleges that he’s been in her DMs, fights break out between Drew and K. Michelle, and between Porsha and Kelli.
“Porsha f*cked every Nigerian in Atlanta!” Kelli declares.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta season 17 premieres on Sunday, April 5, at 8/7c on Bravo.