RHOA's Porsha Williams was shocked by new details about Drew Sidora and Dennis McKinley's business relationship.
Drew Sidora showing up on Porsha Williams' Nashville trip uninvited (by the birthday girl, at least) on The Real Housewives of Atlanta actually got off to a better start than anyone expected. By the time her first cast dinner rolled around, however, Drew was packing her bags to leave the vacation early.
Drew attempted to address "the elephant in the room" in Season 16, Episode 8, asking Porsha in front of the rest of the group if she truly was "good with" her being there, despite receiving the invitation from Angela Oakley, rather than her directly.
"You straight," Porsha cooly replied, prompting Drew to eventually leave the meal prematurely.
In a confessional, Porsha referenced ex-fiancé Dennis McKinley while reacting to Drew's abrupt departure. "You hopped your ass on a flight to a woman's birthday party who you snuck around and did behind-the-scenes stuff with her child's father, and me saying, 'You straight,' made you leave?” the mom to 6-year-old Pilar Jhena “PJ” McKinley vented, before adding, "Sayonara."
Why Porsha Williams was upset with Drew Sidora and Dennis McKinley
What the rest of the women didn't know at the time was that Porsha’s aloof mood stemmed from her receiving a "disappointing" phone call just before the dinner.
"This person told me that Dennis had actually been filming on this show with Drew," she explained in a confessional, referring to RHOA. "That just sent me over the edge because Dennis and I had had a conversation about that specifically."
Indeed, a flashback from two months prior reminded viewers of Dennis' hot mic moment during which Porsha warned her ex that it would "be a problem" if he filmed RHOA scenes with Drew. Fast-forward just eight days, though, and cameras were in the music studio with Dennis and Drew anyway, unbeknownst to Porsha at the time.
"I was ultimately super disappointed that he chose opportunity over family," Porsha summed up.
Porsha Williams explained her frustrations with Dennis McKinley
Later filling in Cynthia Bailey on the new intel she'd gotten, Porsha admitted that her energy wasn't meant to be "directly" aimed at Drew or Angela, whom she also sparred with at the dinner table. "Going through divorce … when you're dealing with people and you get disappointed, it feels like it's a pile-on," she explained.
Porsha then asked Cynthia how she would feel if she started a podcast with one of her ex-husbands and "had to find out secondhand" that they’d filmed it for the show. (For the record, Cynthia "would not be OK" with that.) "That's literally all it is. It wasn't all 100 percent [Drew] ... it's just a lot."
Ultimately, Porsha is reserving all the smoke for her ex, rather than Drew.
"Dennis is the one who was obligated to me. He is the one who has made an agreement with me [on] how we would behave as co-parents," she added in a confessional. "So, I'm not gonna bring none of that to her. I'm not gonna go to her and confront her about filming with him or whatever. But Dennis, on the other hand, he gonna get all of this."
Why Drew Sidora stormed out of Porsha Williams' birthday dinner
Prior to the Nashville dust-up, Drew — who has maintained that her relationship with Dennis is strictly professional — shared that she was hoping to get "some resolve and move past" her drama with Porsha. The cold response she received, however, didn't give her much hope of that happening.
"She gave me an answer that's like, nasty-nice, and at this point, I've extended olive branches, I showed up, and if that's the energy, then that's the energy," Drew announced to the other women, later adding, "This is just immature . . . I don't have to deal with this, actually, because I wasn't invited anyway."
Afterward, she referenced her contentious divorce from Ralph Pittman, elaborating to Angela and Shamea Morton, "Right now, my life, what I'm dealing with, it's not fair. I'm not gonna keep subjecting myself to insults and attacks. Like, it's too much."
