Kenya Moore apologizes for her ‘disrespectful and insensitive’ Halloween costume on RHOA

Kenya Moore has apologized for attending to a Halloween soiree dressed as an indigenous person, now calling her culturally insensitive costume ‘disrespectful.’

The Real Housewives Of Atlanta, along with network Bravo, said sorry after audiences and fellow castmembers called Kenya out for cultural appropriation after this week’s episode showed the actress, 50, in what she called a ‘warrior princess’ look.

The star explained herself in a statement shared with Page Six, saying: ‘I want to sincerely apologize for inappropriately wearing the Native American headdress as a costume.’

‘I now realize that this was both disrespectful and insensitive and would never have done it if I had that knowledge and understanding beforehand. I regret it. When you know better, you do better. I am genuinely sorry.’

Bravo addressed the outrage as well, acknowledging how they failed to address the incident appropriately.

‘We had hoped it would provide a teachable moment, however in retrospect it is clear that the network did not address this properly given the gravity of the situation,’ the network added.

‘We apologize to both the Native American community and our audience as a whole.’

This week was tense episode for the star, as Kenya’s RHOA costars were quick to call her out about her tasteless party look at the party, confronting the reality star to her face and in their solo confessionals. 

During the night of the event Kenya described her costume as a ‘warrior princess’.

However, between the full feathered headdress and the fact that the show wrote ‘Native American’ on the screen, people were clearly not buying it.

Fellow Housewife Drew Sidora made a crack about the ensemble during her confessional. 

‘Kenya’s Native American costume is super problematic but I ain’t trying to ruffle no feathers for this girls trip,’ she said. ‘It seems like I’m the only one who sees the issues with Kenya Moore’s decisions.’

Drew was decidedly not the only person in the group to take umbrage with Kenya’s costume as Porsha Williams also made her distaste known during the part.

‘Kenya is a Native American warrior,’ she quipped. ‘I thought we weren’t doing that no more. I knew that this girl was crazy, but add lame to the list, add whack to the list.’

And on social media, users wasted no time in calling Kenya out for her cultural appropriation and the mother of one actually jumped in to defend herself at one point.

Several people dubbed the cultural appropriation ‘disgusting’.

In one exchange where she was called out for not only wearing the costume but for previously throwing ‘shade’ at Porsha for her work with Black Lives Matter, Kenya responded that her costume was ‘also part of my heritage.’

The issue about Kenya’s costume came amid a tense episode where she protested that there was no reason for her costars to be so unkind to her.

‘I have done nothing to those b****es; nothing,’ she insisted. 

The Real Housewives Of Atlanta season 13 airs on Sunday nights on Bravo.