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NeNe Leakes’ Husband Gregg Dies At Age 66 After ‘A Long Battle With Cancer’

‘RHOA’ alum NeNe Leakes’ marketing expert affirmed that her significant other, Gregg Leakes, kicked the bucket following a second fight with stage 3 colon malignant growth.

NeNe Leakes‘ better half, Gregg Leakes, appallingly lost his fight to malignant growth on Wednesday, September 1. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star’s marketing specialist and family companion, Ernest Dukes, affirmed in an explanation to TheMagazineCity that Gregg died at age 66 subsequent to battling stage 3 colon disease briefly time.

“Today the Leakes family is in profound torment with a messed up heart,” Ernest said. “After a long fight with malignant growth, Gregg Leakes has died calmly in his home encompassed by the entirety of his youngsters, extremely close friends and family and spouse Nene Leakes. We ask that you petition God for harmony and strength over their family and permit them to grieve in private during this extremely troublesome time.”

NeNe Leakes and husband Gregg Leakes (Photo: Kcr/Shutterstock)

Only days before Gregg’s demise, NeNe, 53, uncovered to visitors at The Linnethia, the parlor she possesses in Duluth, Georgia, that her better half was “progressing to the opposite side” in the midst of his malignant growth fight, as per reports. The following day, the previous Bravo star shared a mysterious Instagram post of the word ‘Broken’ close by a hand-asking emoticon and broken-heart emoticon, likely regarding Gregg’s falling apart wellbeing.

Gregg was already disease free in May 2019, however fans discovered that his malignant growth had returned during a June 2021 Instagram Live among NeNe and The Jasmine Brand. “He’s been in the emergency clinic for seven days, tomorrow. I’m certain he’ll be home in with regards to a week or thereabouts. He needed to have a medical procedure,” she said when requested a report on Gregg’s wellbeing. NeNe likewise clarified that Gregg’s new disease fight was particularly “troublesome” in light of the fact that he’s “unique”.

NeNe Leakes & Gregg Leakes (Photo: Rich Fury/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Gregg’s first fight with stage 3 colon malignant growth, which he was determined to have in June 2018, was featured all through RHOA’s eleventh season, and the sickness influenced their marriage. “It’s incredibly, difficult to be a guardian,” NeNe told PEOPLE during Gregg’s underlying wellbeing battles. “Individuals call and they say, ‘How’s Gregg doing?’ and I need to toss the telephone and say, ‘How the f-am I doing? I’m going off the deep end about here, Gregg is destroying me!’ I am bad at this s-! I would prefer to enlist someone. Gregg doesn’t needs me to recruit someone, yet I’m simply bad. I’m bad at lightening the pad; I’m acceptable at purchasing the cushion.”

NeNe, who left RHOA in Sept. 2020, first wedded Gregg in 1997. They later got separated in 2011, just to get remarried in June 2013. R.I.P, Gregg.

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