NeNe Leakes Says She Misses Late Husband Gregg Leakes ‘Every Day’ in ‘Heavenly’ Birthday Tribute: ‘We Love You’

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Always in her heart. NeNe Leakes paid tribute to her late husband, Gregg Leakes, on what would have been his 67th birthday.“Missing the man that always had a plan,” the 54-year-old former Bravo personality wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, August 16.The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum explained that “today was a tough one” for her as it marked the first birthday without her spouse since Gregg died in September 2021.“Every year on this date we would be out celebrating you,” she continued. “I can’t believe we are wishing you a heavenly Birthday today.

I feel like you went some where and you’ll be back.”NeNe noted, “I miss you every day Gregg” before wishing her longtime love a Happy Birthday. “WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH,” she concluded.The New York native’s publicist confirmed on September 1, 2021, that Gregg passed away after battling Stage III colon cancer.

The couple were married for more than 20 years before his passing.“Today the Leakes family is in deep pain with a broken heart,” NeNe’s publicist said in a statement to Us Weekly at the time. “Gregg Leakes has passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by all of his children, very close loved ones and wife Nene Leakes.”Both NeNe and Gregg were parents before they wed in 1997.

The Dancing With the Stars alum is the mother of son Bryson Bryant from a past relationship, while Gregg had five children: Denton, Daryl, Damian, Dexter and Katrina.The pair welcomed their first and only child together, son Brentt, in 1999.