Actuality TV star NeNe Leakes has opened up concerning the “scary” ordeal she went by lately together with her son when he suffered coronary heart failure and a stroke.
In an emotional Instagram Tales video, the previous Actual Housewives of Atlanta star confirmed her 23-year-old son, Brentt Leakes, was hospitalised weeks in the past, a lot to her misery.
“Two weeks in the past at present, Brentt had congestive coronary heart failure and a stroke,” she mentioned within the clip. “He is solely 23. He is actually younger for one thing like that to occur to him.”
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“This isn’t the best way I wished it to come back out,” she continued. “We wished to have the ability to discuss it ourselves when Brentt was in a greater place … however I might reasonably the right factor be on the market than one thing that is not appropriate.”
The 54-year-old defined Brentt “does not drink or do medicine” in order that issue was eradicated, however docs surprise if he unknowingly contracted COVID-19, because the virus has been related to coronary heart issues.
Though Brentt is now house and recovering, NeNe mentioned her son is “combating talking”.
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“They’ve run a lot of assessments on him. We’re nonetheless attempting to determine [the cause]. It was very scary. I do not even need to go into particulars of what occurred. Clearly, a stroke is a really severe factor,” mentioned NeNe, who starred within the first seven seasons of RHOA from 2008 to 2015, earlier than returning for Seasons 10 by 12 from 2017 to 2019.
Watch the complete video above.
This traumatic expertise comes one yr after NeNe misplaced her husband, Gregg Leakes, who was Brentt’s father. NeNe additionally has a 32-year-old son, Bryson, from a earlier relationship. In the meantime, Gregg has 5 different youngsters from his earlier relationships.
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The businessman died aged 66 in September 2021 after batting Stage III colon most cancers, and his journey was documented on RHOA.
“In the present day the Leakes household is in deep ache with a damaged coronary heart,” a rep for NeNe mentioned in a press release to Us Weekly on the time.
“Gregg Leakes has handed away peacefully in his house surrounded by all of his youngsters, very shut family members and spouse Nene Leakes.”
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