NeNe Leakes Admits Her Relationship with Boyfriend Nyonisela Sioh Needs Work

NeNe Leakes is still dating Nyonisela Sioh, despite what she describes as a lukewarm phase in their relationship.

“We’re okay,” the former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star told E! News in an interview published Saturday. “Could always be better. He keeps checking a few of my boxes, but we have some work to do.”

Leakes, 56, went public with Sioh in December 2021, just months after her longtime husband, Gregg Leakes, passed away from colon cancer.

The couple was originally married in 1997 but divorced in 2011. They rekindled their romance and remarried in June 2013, five years before Gregg was diagnosed with cancer.

After her husband passed, she confirmed that he had given her his blessing to move on romantically.

“Gregg and I had a very tearful conversation before his passing,” she shared with the Shade Room. “His words to me were ‘be happy, keep smiling and he who finds you, has found a good one.’”

Leakes mentioned in her conversation with E! that she was open to marriage again but didn’t see it happening anytime soon.

“I don’t have to have marriage because I’ve had it before, but I certainly would like a really good, healthy relationship that has a lot of love and respect,” she remarked.

She has been candid about her and Sioh’s on-and-off relationship. Last July, she revealed they were on a break because they were “just not working at the moment.”

During her chat with E!, Leakes candidly discussed the volatile state of dating in today’s society.

“Things have definitely changed since I met Gregg 25 years ago,” she reflected.

“Now, dating out here, I feel like the pool of men are not that great and it’s just hard to find someone that is emotionally available.”

“I always say you want someone to come into your life that helps to elevate you or teach you something or just make you great.”

Despite seeking someone emotionally available, Leakes, a TV personality and businesswoman, stated in April that she thinks cheating is acceptable as long as it’s done in a “respectful” manner.

“If I’m here in Georgia and you went to San Francisco for the weekend — I’m saying any city — what you don’t know, it won’t hurt you,” she explained in an Instagram Live with Carlos King.

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