Ariana Biermann opened up about her mom Kim Zolciak‘s ongoing divorce from Kroy Biermann during a recent interview.
As she also reflected on Kim’s drama with Kandi Burruss, 49, and weighed in on her potential return to The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Ariana, 23, teased what is to come on Next Gen NYC and shared that when it came to her parents’ breakup, she begged Kim, 47, not to divorce the former NFL player.
“I try to keep my relationship with both of them very separate,” Ariana admitted during the interview with Access Hollywood. “I don’t read the tabloids. I don’t want to know. I don’t like to know. Everyone spins it how they want, but it’s definitely been a difficult couple of years, but [we’re] trying to just stay together as much as we can in whatever ways to get through this.”
According to Ariana, there’s “absolutely no” chance that Kim and Kroy, 39, will reconcile now, but it was “in the air for a while.”
“I begged my mom, I was like, ‘I don’t want you guys to get divorced. Please no. Like, I love your love.’ And like, no. There’s no hope. I think the fighting for full custody on my dad’s part was the end,” Ariana suspected.
Moving on to Kim’s issues with Kandi, Ariana said she and her Next Gen NYC co-star, Riley Burruss, 22, kept their moms’ drama separate from their friendship.
“We’re grown women now at this point. We were 10. That was kind of the reason we stopped being friends. How do we get to each other’s houses? How do we do anything?” she explained. “But now we really haven’t gotten into it.”
“We want to like, parent trap our parents to get them to rekindle their friendship,” she added.
While Kandi is no longer featured on RHOA, Ariana thinks her mom should return.
“She’s in a totally different era of her life than she has been for the last 13 years, and I think it’d be awesome,” she noted.
Looking back on her mom’s run on RHOA, Ariana recalled that kids at school were banned from being her friend.
“People saw my mom drinking wine and smoking her cigarettes on [RHOA], and so second moms got a wave of that and my mom saying the F word and whatever. They were like, ‘You’re not allowed to be friends with her. You can’t go to her house,’ definitely a few of those,” she shared.
As for who she hit it off with and who she didn’t during filming on Next Gen NYC, Ariana said she and Gia Giudice, 24, have always been friends, and revealed that Gia introduced her to Brooks Marks, 25, “who I love.”
“Me and Riley reconnected throughout the show, and she was like best friend ever,” Ariana gushed. “We definitely really hit it off. As well as [Emira D’Spain]. Emira’s my girl. I hang out with her all the time and do double dates all the time.”
“I would say I did not hit it off with [Charlie Zakkour]. We definitely get into it quite a bit, and then there are some comments from some other girls on the show that we definitely get into a little bit as well,” she continued.
Regarding her time with Riley on RHOA, specifically a sweet chat they had about boyfriends, Ariana joked that things are “still the exact same way” between them.
“She’s like, ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, Hudson.’ And Riley, I feel like it’s the same way with her mom. Boys have to go through the loops for Kandi to approve,” she stated.
Also during the interview, as she labeled Charlie as the “villain” of Next Gen NYC, Brooks as the “peacemaker,” and said either Charlie or Riley partied the hardest, Ariana looked back on the moment she was first approached for the show.
“I was super excited,” she admitted. “Gia honestly reached out to me and was like, ‘We’re doing this. You have to come and do the show with me.’ And I was like, ‘This is a really fun opportunity. Live in New York City and meet a bunch of new people.’”
Next Gen NYC season one airs Tuesday nights on Bravo.
