Porsha Williams has formally returned to Bravo and The Actual Housewives of Atlanta, making a splash at Bravo Fan Fest Miami.
Williams left RHOA in 2021, and though followers acquired a life replace on Peacock’s Final Women Journey Season 3 in 2023, loads has been taking place in her life ever since.
“I’ve been having time. I’ve been having fun with life,” Williams informed Deadline. “Life has its ups and downs and per standard, simply pushing by way of and it’s been wonderful. 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 lately 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 actuality TV for leisure, that is my actual life and to start with elements of the season, you’re gonna see what I’m really going by way of. I’d say crucial 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 let you know I needed Phaedra again day one among 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 at all times good vitality. It’s at all times enjoyable, it’s light-hearted. As darkish as life will be typically, it’s worthwhile to have that gentle and Frick and Frack is at all times going to convey the great instances. We’re at all times going to come back in and chortle at what shouldn’t be laughed at, and benefit from the good issues in life and never focus on 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, now we have the kind of friendship the place we don’t have to speak [to each other] day-after-day, and we positively haven’t filmed collectively in some years, however after I let you know, it’s like a day hasn’t been misplaced. As quickly as we acquired collectively, you’d have thought now we have been collectively each single day. And [she’s] the kind of buddy that you recognize the friendship is actual – we’re locked in.
DEADLINE: Early on within the season, we additionally noticed photographs of you and frenemy Kenya Moore circulating, indicating that you just two had been on good phrases. Since she left the collection halfway by way 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 approach ahead. I used to be actually excited for the viewers to see our development, as a result of out of all the things, it was tremendous real. It was [very much] Large Sis, Little Sis vitality that anyone would be capable to relate to. I positively hated that it didn’t work out, however typically it’s a must to 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 come back again.
DEADLINE: It could work nice as an in-studio present.
WILLIAMS: Simply think about what all of us three can be doing in individual [and] in a studio, it could be insane. We didn’t must 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, but it surely was simply magic and I hope we convey it again at some point.
DEADLINE: Lastly, once you had been introduced as returning to Actual Housewives of Atlanta, the announcement included an total scripted expertise take care of NBCU Leisure. Has there been any progress on that venture?
WILLIAMS: I can’t really communicate on a number of the tasks, as a result of within the TV world, you don’t communicate on it till it’s introduced, however there was numerous motion. There’s a present that will probably be popping out subsequent 12 months, and sure, I’ve positively stepped again into the appearing area, and I do have one thing arising, per standard on this world, you’ll be able to’t discuss till it’s introduced.
