On Monday (October 10), news broke that Brentt Leakes, the 23-year-old son of NeNe Leakes and her late husband Gregg Leakes, had suffered a heart attack and stroke.
Following the news, NeNe broke her silence and released a statement on what happened to her son. Taking to her Instagram Story, NeNe shared:
“Two weeks ago today, Brentt had congestive heart failure and a stroke. He’s only 23…so he’s really young for something like that to happen to him. The first things a lot of doctors think of when someone that age comes in with that kind of condition is [drugs] or…serious infection, maybe HIV or some sort of infection.”
She went on to say:
“Brentt doesn’t drink or do drugs…they also tested him for HIV. They were thinking that maybe he had caught COVID and he didn’t know he had COVID. They did see some things like that happen if they caught the Delta variant. He never knew he had COVID. I’ve never known him to have COVID. So, they have run a number of tests on him to see what could have possibly made that happen to him.”
NeNe said that the doctors are still trying to figure out the cause and that once they learn what caused it, they can then work towards addressing and fixing the cause. She added:
“It was very scary. I don’t even want to go into details of what happened… how I found out.
Obviously a stroke is a very serious thing. He’s struggling with speaking. I don’t know. I just know that… keep us in your prayers.
Brent FaceTimed me this morning. He’s in good spirits. We just are…just shocked. Shocked….All of this is still so new to me. We’re not currently revealing where Brentt currently is. He has shown some improvement. We’re really happy and blessed for that.”
NeNe concluded by saying:
“Maybe Brentt was born with some sort of disease…something with his heart since he was a kid. And it just never showed up until now. We don’t know. This is just a lot for us right now. Everything is still very new. I’ve been asked a million questions…could his weight have been the issue? The doctors said they don’t think so.
“Brentt was very stressed out in the month of September [as it was the one year anniversary of this dad’s death]. He’s been super stressed out over it. I don’t even know if it has anything to do with it at all. They seem to think that that is not the case with Brent. So many people keep asking me about his weight. The doctors say it’s not that either. The doctors don’t even know yet.
Keep praying that we find the cause.”
