The newly single singer and entrepreneur revisited her bisexual identity on her podcast, offering one of her most grounded takes yet on love, attraction, and staying true to yourself.

It was not a dramatic announcement. There was no tearful reveal or carefully timed press release. When Kandi Burruss sat down with Da Brat and her wife Jesseca ‘Judy’ Dupart on a recent episode of her podcast Speak On It, she simply told the truth — the same truth she has been telling, in one form or another, for nearly a decade.

Burruss, the Grammy-winning songwriter, entrepreneur, and former star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, reaffirmed her bisexuality with the kind of matter-of-fact ease that tends to come from someone who has already done the hard work of figuring herself out. She was in a relationship with a man, she explained, but that never changed how she identifies. Being committed to a partner and being bisexual are not, in her view, mutually exclusive.

It is a nuance that often gets lost in public conversation, but Burruss made it plain.

A position she has held for years

This is not the first time Burruss has said this out loud. In 2017, a conversation on The Real Housewives of Atlanta put her sexuality squarely in the spotlight when co-star Marlo Hampton raised rumors that had been circulating. Burruss did not deny them. She doubled down on her love for her then-husband, Todd Tucker, while leaving little room for ambiguity about her broader attractions.

Later in that same season, she confirmed she had been with women. In a separate interview that year, she went further, offering something close to a working definition of bisexuality as it applied to her own life. If a person enjoys intimacy with both men and women, she reasoned, the label fits. By that measure, she said plainly, it fit her.

What made those moments memorable was not the admission itself but the tone. There was no performance of vulnerability, no PR framing. It was just Burruss being Burruss, which is to say direct, unbothered, and a little impatient with the idea that any of this should be particularly shocking.

Pride Month and a new chapter

The timing of her latest remarks carries some weight. June, Pride Month, is the cultural moment when conversations about LGBTQ+ identity move from the margins to the center. For Burruss, it is also a personally significant stretch of time. Her divorce from Tucker was finalized in March after 11 years of marriage and two children together. She is, for the first time in over a decade, navigating her personal life entirely on her own terms.

That context does not go unnoticed. Burruss has always been an open figure — the Bedroom Kandi brand she built around sexual wellness is evidence enough of that — but there is something distinct about speaking freely when you are answering to no one but yourself.

What bisexuality actually looks like

What Burruss articulated on Speak On It is something that bisexual people have long had to push back on: the idea that a committed relationship erases the identity. Being in a monogamous marriage with a man did not make her straight. Being single now does not make her anything other than what she has always been.

The conversation was prompted, in part, by asking Judy how she identifies. That small move — turning the question outward before answering it herself — said something. Burruss is not performing her bisexuality for attention. She is engaging with it as a lived reality, one that informs how she understands relationships, attraction, and fidelity.

Da Brat and Judy, who recently released a book together, were there to talk about their relationship. What they got instead was a fuller conversation about what it means to be honest about who you are inside and outside a partnership.

Where she goes from here

Burruss has not indicated what her romantic life looks like post-divorce, nor does she owe anyone that information. What she has made clear is that she is not shrinking. She started a podcast. She kept building her businesses. She sat down with one of the most publicly visible same-sex couples in Black celebrity culture and talked openly about identity and love.

For her fans, many of whom have watched her navigate marriage, motherhood, business, and public scrutiny across multiple platforms for years, the conversation felt less like a revelation and more like a confirmation. She is who she said she was. She was not waiting for permission to say it again.