Did Porsha And Shamea’s Friendship Hit The Point Of No Return?

Porsha Williams and Shamea Morton gave BFF energy on The Real Housewives of Atlanta for several seasons, but in real life, their relationship was more complicated. 

We’ve watched both the highs and the lows of their friendship, but in the last few episodes of season 17, we watched them take it to hell. Their drama extended past TV reads and into family territory. It was NOT bestie behavior. 

This confused fans who remembered the two as childhood friends, but the explanation may have been in our faces all along. They may not have been as close as we thought, or even as close as they thought. 

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Morton joined the series as an official cast member for season sweet 16. It looked like she and her bestie were about to run things, but her venting to cast members about their relationship feeling one sided disrupted the bestie narrative. 

Carlos King got the receipts on their relationship on the Reality With The King podcast. Morton explained that she met Porsha in middle school, but that is not where their friendship began. 

“We were friends through our moms,” she explained. “We were cool, we weren’t hanging tight in high school. She had her crew, I had my crew, but we were cool.” They continued to hang out with other people after graduation. 

One-on-one side quests were not added to their dynamic until much later. “It wasn’t until her divorce from Kordell that we became like best friends,” Morton explained. 

She credited their connection to proximity. “I guess we were around each other more,” she said when King asked what about that time period brought them together. 

Proximity can create intimacy. It…