RHOA’s Cynthia Bailey Is Praying for NeNe Leakes’ After Late Husband Gregg Leakes’ Death




Standing by her side. Cynthia Bailey gave a small update on how former Real Housewives of Atlanta costar NeNe Leakes is coping after the death of her husband, Gregg Leakes. NeNe Leakes and Husband Gregg's Unconventional Relationship Timeline Read article “I pray she’s doing well,” the Alabama native, 54, told Us Weekly exclusively at The Fashion Bomb Daily’s Bomb Fashion Show on Saturday, September 11, at Sixth Floor Loft in New York City. “[It’s] very, very sad.” Bailey noted, “Gregg was very loved by everyone and [I’m] just wishing her all the love and strength.” Us Weekly confirmed on September 1 that Gregg died at age 66 after battling stage III colon cancer. He was originally diagnosed in 2018 and was briefly in remission before his illness returned earlier this year. “Today the Leakes family is in deep pain with a broken heart,” the New Normal alum’s publicist said in a statement. “After a long battle with cancer, Gregg Leakes has passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by all of his children, very close loved ones and wife Nene Leakes. We ask that you pray for peace and strength over their family & allow them to mourn in private during this very, very difficult time.”