NeNe Leakes Speaks Out After 23-Year-Old Son Suffers Stroke

NeNe Leakes is thankful to person her household nether 1 extortion again.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum shared that her 23-year-old son, Brentt Leakes, has been released from the infirmary 2 months aft suffering a stroke. On Nov. 23, a time earlier Thanksgiving, NeNe posted a video of Brentt, clad successful a pinkish hoodie and matching sweatpants, saying goodbye to his nurses arsenic helium walked retired of the building.

"My son['s] beingness changed Sept 26," she wrote connected Instagram Stories, adding successful abstracted posts, "To God beryllium the Glory...HE's Walking and Talking."

Alongside the wellness update, NeNe besides gave her followers a glimpse of Brentt's betterment process. Showing however far her lad has travel since his stroke, she posted a photograph of herself by Brentt's infirmary furniture and videos of him learning however to locomotion again through physiotherapy treatments. In 1 clip, Brentt is seen strapped to a harness arsenic helium takes dilatory steps connected a treadmill. Another video shows him walking backwards portion tossing a shot to a nurse.

NeNe, who is besides ma to 32-year-old son Bryson, archetypal shared quality of Brentt's changeable successful October. "Two weeks agone today, Brentt had congestive bosom nonaccomplishment and a stroke," she wrote successful an Oct. 10 Instagram Stories post. "He's lone 23, truthful he's truly young for thing similar that to hap to him."

At the time, the world prima said that it was "very scary" to spot her lad successful specified a condition, explaining how doctors were unclear connected what led to the stroke. "Brentt doesn't portion oregon bash drugs. And evidently they've tested him for each of those things," she continued. "They besides tested him for HIV. They were reasoning that possibly helium had caught COVID and helium didn't cognize that helium had COVID."

While she refused to spell into details astir the time Brentt was hospitalized, NeNe noted that " a changeable is simply a precise superior thing" and that her lad was "struggling" with his speech.