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NeNe Leakes accused Lisa Vanderpump of taking her location idea after manipulating her into not buying it. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star shared their past phone call, and she claimed she did “foul s**t to me.”

In 2014, Lisa opened her Pump restaurant in West Hollywood. Many scenes on Vanderpump Rules were filmed there, though she eventually closed it down in 2023. Before her exit on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, several of Lisa’s co-stars accused her of playing dirty behind the scenes.

“[There’s] something [Lisa] did to me that … I’ve never really addressed,” said NeNe via @talkandblockpodcast and @bravo_boo on Instagram. “I know a lot of people look at her like [she’s a certain way]. I’m like, she did some real foul s**t to me.”

The host then wondered, “Maybe the rumors are true that she kind of manipulates people.”

“She does,” NeNe agreed. “So in L.A., she has a place called Pump on Santa Monica Boulevard, that bar. So at the time, Gregg and I were living up in Doheny Estates, we had our house up there, and I was working on Glee and New Normal.”

“And I [would] ride down that West Hollywood area where I kept thinking, it would be so cool if I had a bar right in here somewhere. And that space was empty and kind of raggedy looking and torn down, and the Abbey is like right there,” NeNe continued. “And I said, this is a cool spot cause I could get some of the business from the Abbey. I said, who could I call and ask is this a good area, cause I’m not so sure. So I call Lisa Vanderpump.”

NeNe said she asked Lisa about the area.

“She [responded], ‘Oh darling, darling, it’s a piece of crap and they’re charging so much for it, darling.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I love it, I think it’s a great space. And I knew to call you cause I knew you have a restaurant.’ … She talked me [out of it], and went and got it [herself].”

“That’s so fucked up,” she said. “The next thing I know, [she opened] Pump [there]. I was like, is this b**ch serious? And so now when she’s seen me — she has her little dog that doesn’t even crawl — and she’s like, ‘Um, hi NeNe…’”

The star claimed Lisa “never” apologized.

“She just looks at me funny, like … she knows [that I] know,” said NeNe, who called her “Vander-lump.”