The Atlanta version is a spinoff of Hollywood Exes, which finished its third season in July. Some of the cast members included Nicole Murphy, Jessica Canseco and Mayte Garcia for a show that averaged less than a million viewers. Exes also have been featured in VH1’s “Basketball Wives” and various “Real Housewives” franchises on Bravo, among others.
Both the spinoffs and the others offer exes of celebrities an opportunity to tell their stories, promote themselves as entrepreneurs and with the hopes of ridding the conception of being “gold diggers.”
On the show, Johnson maintains her interior design company, Shaw pens a children’s book, Hart releases her Cherry Limeade-flavored drink mixer called Skimpy and Raymond attempts to bring more recognition to her son’s foundation, Kile’s World.
“The stereotype of a celebrity’s significant other or ex is not true,” said Monyetta Shaw, who has two children with Grammy-winning artist Ne-Yo, who broke the news of their breakup to his followers on Instagram last year.
Shaw and Ne-Yo still live together in a home in suburban Atlanta. Even though a family portrait is posted on the wall and the singer’s awards are cased in the hallways, she said the singer is often away.
“We’re not gold diggers,” Shaw continued. “We are more than that. We are business women, college educated, very smart, ambitious and role models too.”
Some of the cast member’s former mates were fine with their being on the show, while others, such as Usher, were concerned about their exes revealing too much.
Hart couldn’t care less.
“I guess mine is supportive,” she said. “Even if he wasn’t, I would still do it. Who cares? He never said ‘don’t do it.’ But he was like, ‘Why are you doing it?’ I said, ‘Because I want to.’ And that was the end of that.”
Johnson hopes the extra exposure of the show can help other women who are dealing with the aftermath of a divorce or breakup following a long-term relationship.
“We go through it,” she said. “But we want women to see being divorced doesn’t mean you’re a failure. We want women to learn from us.”
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