She is one of the biggest names to emerge from the Real Housewives franchise but Kim Zolciak insists no amount of money would make her ever want to repeat the experience.
In a sneak peek of the next episode of Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets, Kim, 46, opened up about departing The Real Housewives of Atlanta following five seasons as a cast member.
At the time of her exit, she and her then-husband Kroy Biermann, 38, were expecting their now 13-year-old son, Kroy ‘KJ’ Jagger, Jr.
‘I walked away from millions of dollars,’ she relayed to her castmates. ‘I was eight months pregnant with my son. Glasses being thrown.’
‘It was that bad?’ Josie Canseco asked.
Kim Zolciak opened up about departing the Real Housewives of Atlanta in a sneak peek of The Surreal Life
‘It was f**king terrible,’ Kim insisted.
‘I have PTSD from it, like, severe,’ she continued. ‘There’s not enough money to ever go through what I went through, ever.’
Fellow housemate Macy Gray commended Zolciak for her decision to step away.
‘It’s really interesting to hear that,’ she said in a confessional. ‘To me, it says she’s a good person because she stepped away from money and fame because she felt like it was toxic.’
‘Karma comes full circle. I’ve watched it happen to people and here I am and well, where are the others — a couple of them?’ Kim continued over the dinner table with her co-stars.
‘Hollywood problems,’ Chet Hanks said with a laugh.
Kim got her own spin-off show after she left RHOA in 2012, a show called Don’t Be Tardy.
It was originally titled ‘Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding’ and initially chronicled her nuptials to Kroy before it returned for a second season under a new name.
That show lasted for eight seasons and followed her life with Kroy and their six children.
‘I walked away from millions of dollars,’ she relayed to her castmates. ‘I was eight months pregnant with my son. Glasses being thrown’
‘I have PTSD from it, like, severe,’ she continued. ‘There’s not enough money to ever go through what I went through, ever’
‘It was that bad?’ Josie Canseco asked
Kim shares daughters Brielle, 27, Ariana, 22, sons Kroy Jr., 13, Kash, 11, and 10-year-old twins Kaia and Kane with Kroy. Her eldest daughters Brielle and Ariana are from previous relationships but Kroy adopted them after their wedding.
Nowadays, Kim is in the midst of a bitter and very public divorce from Kroy.
A reboot of The WB series of the same name, season two of Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets debuted last month.
In addition to Kim, the cast features Macy Gray, Chet Hanks, Josie Canseco, O.T. Genesis, Johnny Weir, and Tyler Posey.
The villa the cast are residing at is located in Medellin, Colombia.
Macy Gray commended Zolciak for leaving the show
‘Hollywood problems,’ Chet Hanks said with a laugh
Zolciak shot to stardom after first starring on The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Kim has formed a flirtation with Chet, and on the last episode slipped him a note under his door and chatted with him late into the night in her bathroom with their mics off.
‘Flirting with Chet is just fun,’ Kim said in a confessional on the last episode. ‘He’s like an easy distraction from home. He’s funny.’
