Miss Lawrence Talks ‘Empire’ Guest Spot and Leaving Homophobic ‘RHOA’ After Gay Bashing

Fashions Queens and Real Housewives of Atlanta staple Miss Lawrence stole the show when he appeared the Season 2 premiere of Fox’s Empire. Now, Miss Lawrence is opening up about the experiences and leaving Real Housewives of Atlanta. Lawrence is apparently fed up with being the token gay bashing and the homophobia he faced on the show. Check the report below to see what he had to say.

Recently, Miss Lawrence spoke to BET about how he landed his guest spot on Fox’s hit show, Empire:

“I'm super excited! I met Lee Daniels a few years ago; he came up to me at a restaurant and introduced himself. He had recognized me from being on Bravo. Fast forwarding to Empire, which was gaining tremendous amounts of success, I'm in Bevy Smith’s dressing room goofing around and I go into an impromptu skit of Cookie and Jamal Lyon. Bevy is recording me, she sends it to Lee and says, ‘Hire this girl!’”

Miss Lawrence then went on to discuss the homophobia that went on in RHOA:

“I left the Housewives of Atlanta for that very reason -- well, that’s one of the reasons that I left. We don't hold a lot of women accountable for culture appropriation. They love to borrow from the culture, steal intellectual property from the gay community, and most of them don't give back. The first time an inflammatory situation arises the first thing that comes out of their mouth is ’queen] or the whole f-bomb. The one episode where Kenya [Moore]'s friend got beat up at Nene's party, no one was held accountable, there was no real apology put in place. I knew then that was not a place to occupy my time. I knew that there’s no way I can call myself a social activist and be a real activist for my community on that show. I'm not angry with them; I just think they need to be educated. At some point, we as a community have to make them respect us. It saddens me that most gay prides, especially Black gay pride, when they want to book celebrities, you look on the flyers, there’s a Porsha Williams on the flyer, Nene Leakes or Marlo Hampton. What exactly have they done for our community? We don't hold them accountable.”

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