Kandi Burruss Receives The Wifetime Achievement Award At The Bravos: “I Will Always Cherish My Time As A Housewife”
Kandi Burruss was honored with the Wifetime Achievement Award at The Bravos in Las Vegas.
During the BravoCon Live show taping, which will air on Bravo on Sunday, November 16, the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star was honored for her time on the show.
It was former co-star Cynthia Bailey and her daughter Riley Burruss of Next Gen NYC who took the stage at the PH Live Theater to present the accolade to Kandi.
“I did not have the Wifetime Achievement Award on my 2025 Bingo card, but here we are and I’ll take it, Burruss said about accepting the honor.
The Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter recalled joining RHOA and said doing the show would be “something cute to do for a little while,” adding, “And little did I know, Bravo was gonna have me crying, laughing, arguing, singing, reading bitches or checks that I did not expect.”
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Kandi gave a special mention to the Bravo fans, as they have stuck by her even after leaving RHOA after 14 seasons. The reality TV personality said that her fans show up at the Broadway productions she produces, show support on her online streams, watch the TV shows she acts in, and continue to show love in everything she does, calling her fans the “Kandi-coated click.”
“I was gonna be gone from the Bravoverse, but then the torch passed to my daughter Riley,” she said, noting her daughter now stars on her own Bravo show. “Ya’ll are filming Season 2 of the Next Gen [NYC,] and I am so proud. You took the torch, laid it on fire and brought that Burruss heat to a whole new franchise and I’m here for it.”
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Kandi also didn’t let the opportunity pass to thank her family, that has been part of her Bravo journey through all these years, starring in spinoffs over the years. She joked that her family gave “Bravo way more drama than they paid for.”
Andy Cohen was also one of the people Kandi mentioned, saying that “it means so much that our relationship is bigger than the show,” choking up while saying, “I random text and check in mean a lot to me now more than ever.”
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“And to every woman I ever filmed RHOA with, I see some of y’all here tonight, the good, the bad, the shade, the laughs, the tears, we made history together,” Kandi said while holding back her tears. “Moments that will live forever. We created iconic television.”
Kandi ended by saying, “Even though I moved on, I will always cherish my time as a housewife. I will always represent our Bravo family because I’m worldwide. [And] I’m embedded in your motherf***ing brain, bitch.”
