Candiace Dillard announced her exit from The Real Housewives of Potomac at the end of the show’s eighth season.
At the time, Candiace left to focus on her pregnancy and the birth of her child, but in a recent interview, she says she was actually ready to walk before even finding out that she was expecting.
“I was ready to go halfway through season eight. So many things were going on. Not just on camera with the cast, but behind the scenes,” she said on According to Blake.
She continued, “I can’t be in battle with talent and production. That’s too much. Like, Tamar Braxton says all the time, ‘I only wanna have beef with the devil.’ I can’t be beefing with the devil, talent, and the people whose job it is to protect us.”
Candiace explained that she “started to not feel safe,” and that some production team members contributed to her feeling that way.
She added, “But definitely, when we decided we were going to do an embryo implantation, I knew that it was not a safe space for me. My first egg retrieval failed because I was going through that process at the same time that the allegations about Chris making that girl feel uncomfortable came out. That all happened at the same time,” she went on, referring to Gizelle Bryant’s claims that Chris made her feel uncomfortable.