Bravo’s Married to Medicine is back for its 11th season, and Dr. Heavenly Kimes seems to find herself in the middle of some things. This season marks the return of Dr. Contessa Metclafe, Kimes’s former close friend whose relationship was derailed due to differences between the women stemming from Metcalfe’s marriage. And Metcalfe is seemingly back for revenge.
Kimes will not only face off with Metcalfe, but she’ll also have to face Lateasha “Sweet Tea” Lunceford again, and their husbands will also get in the mix, leading to an all-out blow between the foursome.
Ahead of the show’s premiere, Heavenly spoke with Blavity’s Shadow and Act us about how she’s preparing to watch the season unfold. She also dishes on her beloved family, and opens up about how her sons are following in her dentistry footsteps.
Congratulations on Season 11 of Married to Medicine. This season, we see the return of Contesa, or as you have called her in the past, Coon-Tessa…
I don’t call her Coon-Tessa. I call her Cone-Tessa, like ice cream. Calling her Coon-Tessa is taking it too far. I never called that woman a coon. She calls herself Coin-Tessa because she makes the money so we will go with that.
But thanks for clarifying. Initially, you guys may have had your ups and downs, but you guys were good friends at one point. The last time we saw you guys, you weren’t in the best of places. She felt as if you overstepped in terms of you speaking on her marriage. Do you stand by those choices that you made that she felt contributed to the fallout of your guys’ friendship?
Now, how do we see the reunion between the two of you play out? In the trailer, some things seem explosive but as we know from previous trailers, it may not always match up to what’s actually shown on the show.
Oh, the trailer matches up. This season is a lot. But the thing about me is you’re not going sit there and say things about me that are not true and let me let it ride. I am for family. I’m for households. I love the Lord. I never would want to see anybody’s family be ruined. But after you and your husband make these mistakes and then you put it on TV, you can’t be mad at me when you decide to stay. That’s all I’ll say about that.
Probably standing in the same s**t we were standing in. She’s different from us. She’s a lot younger, a lot more naive if you will. But I do get her. I think she’s a sweet girl. I just think she come off real wrong. Anytime you tell Jackie to ‘F**k you, b***h,’ you wrong. Anytime you do the things you do, you can’t go around saying different things on social media about people and then when somebody responds, I ain’t mad at nothing you said, but if you gonna give it, be able to take it, don’t cry yourself to sleep at night about nothing. If you’re going to do it, go ahead, but don’t bring your mama at me.
Now, Phaedra Parks also joined the cast last season, we knew her from The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Many fans were excited that she was joining initially, but some would say that she contributed very little to the overall success of the show. Obviously, she feels otherwise. What is your stance on that entire discussion?
You know, now there’s nothing bad about Phaedra. People want me to say something bad about her but I can’t say nothing other than she didn’t revive this show. Reviving my mind means that it was dead. We have great numbers because we have Quad and her ex-husband and the new wife and that dynamic. People tune in to see me and Dr. Simone arguing. We have a great ensemble cast.
Now, Quad has a new man. And it’s the first time since her divorce from Dr. Gregory Lunceford that she’s bringing a man on the show and she’s on the show with Dr. G and Sweet Tea. Do we see them all interact this season at all?
But we have great numbers because we have Quad and her ex-husband and the new wife and that dynamic and how we putting in me and Simone and Jackie and all of us, all of us come to work.
What will we see from your personal storyline? We know that you have your dental practices, you’re doing everything that you are with your daughter, even though she’s away in college. Your son is working with you now also, correct?
Yeah, he’s actually in dental school now. He’s in his first year of dental school. So I’m really, really proud of him and he’s getting ready to take over my practice. Or at least I’m gonna present him to my practice. We’re gonna work together. He’s agreed to come work in the practice and he does. Now he knows a lot. So he’s way well ahead of the game now.