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NeNe Leakes' Husband Gregg Dead astatine 66
NeNe Leakes is thanking supporters after her youngest son's large wellness scare.
On Oct. 10, TMZ, citing sources with nonstop cognition of the situation, reported that Brentt Leakes was hospitalized aft suffering a bosom onslaught and stroke. Shortly aft the quality emerged, NeNe addressed her 23-year-old son's wellness successful a video connection to fans, noting it's not however they wanted the communicative to travel out.
"We wanted to beryllium capable to speech astir it ourselves erstwhile Brentt was successful a amended place," the Real Housewives of Atlanta alum began her Oct. 10 Instagram Story video. "So, present I am, due to the fact that I would alternatively the close happening beryllium retired determination than thing that's not correct."
"Two weeks agone today, Brentt had congested bosom nonaccomplishment and a stroke," she continued. "He's lone 23, truthful he's truly young for thing similar that to hap to him."
NeNe, who is besides ma to 32-year-old lad Bryson, went connected to enactment that doctors wondered if drugs oregon an corruption led to Brentt's condition. However, arsenic she made clear, "Brentt doesn't portion oregon bash drugs. And evidently they've tested him for each of those things. They besides tested him for HIV. They were reasoning that possibly helium had caught COVID and helium didn't cognize that helium had COVID."
Despite running a fig of tests connected Brentt, doctors are inactive trying to find the cause.
"It was precise scary," she added. "I don't adjacent privation to spell into details. What happened and however I recovered retired and what information helium was in. Obviously a changeable is simply a precise superior thing. And truthful he's struggling you know, with speaking and it's, conscionable cognize that support america successful your prayers. Keep bringing your prayers."
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NeNe, who noted that Brentt seemed to beryllium successful bully spirits aft FaceTiming her this morning, besides reflected on her ain wellness history.
"If you retrieve immoderate years ago, I had humor clots successful my lungs and we could not fig retired wherever it came from," she said. "So they're reasoning that it whitethorn beryllium Brentt was calved with immoderate benignant of illness oregon thing with his bosom since helium was a kid and it conscionable ne'er showed up until now. Like we don't cognize this is conscionable a batch for america close now. And everything is inactive precise new."
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This health scare comes 1 twelvemonth after Brentt's dad Gregg Leakes died at the property of 66 pursuing a conflict with colon cancer. In a follow-up Instagram Story post, NeNe mentioned that Brentt "was precise stressed out" past period arsenic it was the archetypal day of Gregg's passing.
"And I don't adjacent cognize if that has thing to bash with it astatine all," she said. "I mean, I truly asked the doctors truly questions similar that. And they look to deliberation that that is not the lawsuit with Brentt."
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