Married to Medicine Season 11 is wrapping up tonight on Bravo and it is most likely a wrap on Phaedra Parks too.
Parks joined the reality series in Season 10 but never seemed to fit entirely in with the group of mostly medical professionals.
In a recent interview with Deadline, Dr. Heavenly Kimes told us she doesn’t think Parks would ever return to the show.
“Phaedra does not want to come back to Married to Medicine,” Kimes told us. “I don’t foresee, anything anything can happen, but I almost can bet you that she would never come back. Phaedra is a great girl, beautiful woman, [but] I think, her value systems are a little bit different from ours. I mean, we’re married to medicine. We’re very family oriented, as far as like being a unit with a husband and wife. We’re doctors or doctors’ wives. I don’t think she ever fit in that capacity.”
Parks is best known to Bravo audiences for starring in The Real Housewives of Atlanta for seven seasons. The reality TV personality had a major fallout with co-star Kandi Burruss after it was alleged Parks had spread a rumor that Burruss and her husband intended to harm co-star Porsha Williams. Parks left the Bravo world after Season 9 of RHOA in 2017 but made a comeback in The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in 2022 and was cast in The Traitors Season 2 in 2024.
After Kenya Moore was cut from RHOA Season 16 amid filming, Parks was announced to join the series that made her famous.
Ultimately, Kimes thinks Parks only joined RHOA to test the the waters, telling us, “I think it was an area where she was being tested to see how the audience would respond to her after her tragic end [from leaving RHOA] the way that she did. She’s been on a lot of shows as an extra or friend, but this was the first time the opportunity came where she could be a full cast member.”
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“I think she was testing the waters, or [the network] was testing the waters and she came in,” Kimes added. “We were very excited to have her, but like I say, when she had the opportunity to go back where her home [to the Real Housewives], and I think she would agree with that. They’re more glamorous, they dress up, [and] they get more opportunities, so I think she’s home there.”
Kimes said that she felt Parks was holding back from opening herself up to the cameras like the rest of the Married to Medicine cast.
“I do feel that she probably didn’t give it her all, but the way she left Housewives, maybe she was just being cautious [and] maybe she didn’t know how she would be presented to the audience again. Because if you watch the end of this season, she actually – um, I don’t know if she gave more – but definitely more was required of her,” Kimes said.
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As for her future friendship with Parks, Kimes said, “I think she’s a great girl. It’s always good to have a lawyer, but I don’t think she’ll fool with me anymore. I’m always open for friendship. I have no hard feelings against Phaedra Parks.”
On Married to Medicine, Parks left a cast trip after feeling like the girls had set her up, inviting her ex-husband and his new wife to the getaway Dr. Heavenly organized.
In a one-on-one conversation with co-star Dr. Jackie Walters from Episode 13, Parks said, “Heavenly loves to see people in crazy situations or… she’s messy. She’s the devil’s daughter.”
Heavenly’s call to Parks, telling her she was inviting her ex-husband, was captured on camera and inserted into the scene to remind viewers that the Traitors star was aware of the situation.
Walters wanted to mend things with Parks and asked if she would attend a party Toya Bush-Harris was organizing.
“I don’t want to be around ya’ll,” Parks told Walters. “I just don’t want to be a part of any group that they do stuff like this and they think it’s cute. This is a trust thing for me, and I don’t trust.”
Parks seemingly closed the door on ever returning to Married to Medicine, saying, “I just don’t think there’s any moving forward for me. I’m just being honest.”
Married to Medicine airs its Season 11 finale on Sunday, March 16 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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