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Kandi Burruss<\/strong>\u00a0never thought\u00a0Andy Cohen<\/strong>\u00a0would have strong feelings about her\u00a0Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/em>\u00a0departure.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was super sad, which I was like, I don\u2019t know how I expected him to feel,\u201d Burruss, 47, exclusively told\u00a0Us Weekly<\/em>\u00a0on Friday, April 19, while discussing her and husband\u00a0Todd Tucker<\/strong>\u2019s Broadway revival of\u00a0The Wiz<\/em>. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that he cared that much.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0RHOA<\/em>\u00a0explained that Cohen, 55, called her after she let the show\u2019s team know that she would not return for\u00a0season 16\u00a0of the Bravo series. In their chat, Burruss shared that Cohen wasn\u2019t sure how to process it, but the reality star assured him they would \u201cfigure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBasically we had a long heart-to-heart and he made me get teary-eyed, honestly, because at first I\u2019m just like, OK, yeah, I\u2019m onto the next,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd then he\u2019s saying all these things making me feel like, dang, did I make the right choice?\u201d<\/p>\n Burruss admitted she was touched that Cohen had such an emotional reaction to the news and how he publicly shared how much he was going to miss her.<\/p>\n \u201cIt made me feel special because then he also went on his radio show to say how much he was going to miss me and everything,\u201d she told\u00a0Us<\/em>. \u201cAnd I feel like we really developed a good relationship based off of just us having a relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n The reality star also shared that she was grateful that she and Cohen had established a \u201cpersonal level of trust\u201d where the duo could speak openly with one another. After news broke in February that\u00a0she was leaving, Cohen gushed about how Burruss had an \u201cunbelievable run\u201d on the reality series and how he enjoyed\u00a0being by her side\u00a0through it all.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has been one of my favorite people to work with in my whole time. First, as an exec at Bravo, and then as an E.P. of The Housewives and hosting Watch What Happens Live,\u201d Cohen recalled on Sirius XM\u2019s\u00a0Radio Andy<\/em>. \u201cI love how competitive she is. I love how thoughtful and smart she is. She is so strategic.\u201d<\/p>\n Burruss revealed that she was going on a\u00a0RHOA<\/em>\u00a0hiatus for the rest of the year so she could focus on other projects, including going on tour with her girl group Escape and producing a Broadway revival of\u00a0The Wiz<\/em> with her husband.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was my favorite musical of all time,\u201d Burruss said of the show, which is a take on\u00a0The Wizard of Oz<\/em>. \u201c[It is] a classic. And we got to show love to our producing partner\u00a0Brian Moreland<\/strong>\u00a0because he was like, \u2018Hey, what do you guys think about bringing back\u00a0The Wiz<\/em>?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018I\u2019m in. Let\u2019s make it happen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe did a great job with just casting an amazing cast. Everybody can sing and they\u2019re all incredible vocally. But even the dancers in the background \u2014 everybody can sing,\u201d Burruss gushed about the talented crew. \u201cThat\u2019s what somebody said to me the other day, they were like, \u2018I think it\u2019s crazy how even your dancers can sing. That\u2019s great.\u2019 Everybody is doing everything in this show and it really makes it fun and interactive and makes you want to get up and sing with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kandi Burruss\u00a0never thought\u00a0Andy Cohen\u00a0would have strong feelings about her\u00a0Real Housewives of Atlanta\u00a0departure. \u201cHe was super sad, which I was like, I don\u2019t know how I expected him… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}