VIDEO: Nene Leakes Calls Celebrity Apprentice 'A Toxic Situation'
May 11 2011, Published 7:00 a.m. ET
NeNe Leakes has no regrets.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta beauty tells Ellen DeGeneres Wednesday she felt very good about walking off Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice after repeated run-ins with fellow contestant Star Jones.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Leakes left the cutthroat reality show on this past week's episode via a text message to her teammates that read, "I can't stand this environment. It's too negative. I can't stand being around Star."
The Donald was none too pleased, going off on the Real Housewife after she left.
“To you NeNe,” Trump said, “I say, you’re fired. And you’re a quitter. Star Jones kicked your a**, whether you liked it or not.”
Still, Leakes said she's fine with her decision.
"I always do what my gut tells me to do," the gorgeous mother-of-two told DeGeneres. "I'm a grown woman and nobody makes decisions for me -- I make my own decisions.
"It was a toxic situation for me," Leakes, 42, said.
"It's a very toxic situation that's why we watch every week -- it's reality TV! It's supposed to be toxic!" DeGeneres said. "When I said on the show yesterday that Star got fired, there was applause in the audience ... people were thrilled that Star got fired."
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Leakes responded, "Yeah let's clap about it," before leading a huge ovation from the studio audience.
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During her interview with Ellen last week, Jones, a 49-year-old attorney, compared Leakes to “an un-caged animal” and said she doesn’t "hang with people like that.”
Celebrity Apprentice airs Sundays at 9/8c on NBC.
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