The dissolution of a reality television empire doesn’t just happen on screen. It bleeds into the living room. Riley Burruss is making that abundantly clear. The Next Gen NYC star and daughter of The Real Housewives of Atlanta powerhouse Kandi Burruss just stripped away the Bravo gloss to talk about the very real fallout of her mother’s highly publicized divorce from Todd Tucker.
And she isn’t sugarcoating it.
Addressing the shifting dynamics of their blended family, Riley Burruss revealed the separation has been an intensely “hard time” for her personally. That makes sense. Tucker has been a fixture in her life for over a decade. Now, the 23-year-old is forced to figure out the complicated new boundaries of a splintered household that includes Tucker’s daughter, Kaela, and the younger children they share.
Kandi and Todd officially called it quits back in November 2025, pulling the plug on an 11-year marriage that literally started on camera. Fans watched them meet, date, marry, and build a sprawling business portfolio together—most notably the Old Lady Gang restaurant chain. But behind the scenes, tension was constantly bubbling. Viewers practically have a front-row seat burned into their memories of Kandi’s mother, “Mama Joyce,” vehemently distrusting Tucker’s intentions from day one.
Well, Mama Joyce is quiet now. The lawyers are doing the talking.
The former couple’s divorce settlement recently finalized, pushing their financial divisions and equal income reporting into the public eye as court documents leaked online. Despite the legal red tape, both Kandi and Todd have publicly maintained a strict commitment to co-parenting their younger kids. But for the older children like Riley, who grew up entirely within the reality TV bubble of this specific marriage, the transition is far less straightforward. The cameras keep rolling, but the family they captured is gone.