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I revealed to you last month that Marlo Hampton was going to be the new Atlanta “housewife” and also brought you the “7 faces of Marlo” last week in a Mugshot Mania post…
[READ: Mugshot Mania: Marlo Hampton's EXTENSIVE Criminal Past... ]
Well apparently Marlo’s feelin’ some kinda way about her stint in the prison system released and wants to address her violent past.
I received the following from her publicist on Friday…
Your site was the first to break the story about Marlo’s past. It is for that reason we would like to offer you the exclusive extended statement from my client Marlo Hampton. Please let me know if you will run.
You can contact me directly if you need more information.
[Sidebar: The statement sent was neither "exclusive" or "extended" but I appreciate Marlo's camp giving me props on breaking the story.]
At any rate, Marlo says she’s past all that, but blame her ghetto upbringing for the fact that she caught a case after she beat a b*tch.
She explains that it was her “hard-knock childhood” and experiences in America’s foster care system that caused her life of crime… she’s since found God and no longer writes bad checks.
Oh you fancy huh? 
Read Marlo Hampton’s “extended” statement below:
“It has come to my attention that some of my past indiscretions have come to light. Let me first state, I am not ashamed of my past, as my past has helped me become a better woman today.
We all have a past; and my hard-knock childhood in the Foster Care system is a reflection on a bigger issue we faced in America, a broken Foster Care system.
I remain deeply sorry for my actions and I will continue to work hard to contribute to a better community.
My present charge in life is to live with God in my heart and help young women, especially from the foster care system, avoid the challenges I faced.
I’m more than just what is being said of me and I look forward to telling my story and helping others.”
– Marlo Hampton
Cue Lil Orphan Annie….
VIDEO: “Hard Knock Life” (ANNIE)
or better yet, Jay-Z….
So… What do you think of Marlo’s explanation about her long “A”zz rap sheet?
Photos: StraightFromTheA
Well, it did happen a long time ago. I’ve beat a bish up a time or two growing up (I just didn’t get caught). Everyone has a past.
**Sidenote** Is that a baby bump on Phaedra? Her skin is glowing and she looking round in that picture.
it’s possible….
hard knock life huh, wow (u funny finding the video to this..lmbo)
People love to throw God in anything to make themselves look better than what they are ie Eddie Long…
Lmmfao!! So, she wants EVERYONE to know she found God and stop writing bad checks and quit wasting the taxpayers money on her jail time.. Now we see the relationship between her & Charles both common criminals. Oh, but the foster system made her do it… Excuses, excuses. Not a thing classy about this theif.
Good point (Eddie Long) “Are we’re gonna fight these allegiations in the name of God”
so its true you can turn a hoe into a housewife!!
Her statement is tacky and if her publicist wrote that mess, he/she should be fired. How are you going to act like you and God are BFFs but yet on every picture shown of you (minus mugshots) your bad boob job is on full display. I will say she looks better than most of the ATL wives, ex wives, never been wives, on that show.
WHAT SHE DID DINT HAPPEN THAT LONG AGO .SHES JUST A CON ARTIST LIKE NENE,SHEREE AND LISA THEIR ALL POSERS AND MARLO LIKE SHEREE HAS THE RAP SHEET TO PROVE IT
@Michelle I guess all the mediaFakeout attention from the story made her put out a statement.
WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, I’M WILLING TO GIVE HER A CHANCE. IF SHE’S ON RHWOA SHE SEEMS LIKE SHE’S ALREADY DOING BIGGER & BETTER THINGS.
She should have said "YEAH I DID IT…AND?"
If you’re black and living in america and you’re not rich nor have friends in high places….you will catch some kind of case at some point in your life. It’s a statistical fact! I don’t know one single black person that hasn’t been arrested, gotten a parking ticket, nor done something that is not entirely legal. We are all squirrels trying to get a nut. Marlo got herself a whole back of pecans!
Kamalla, how do you compare a parking ticket to being arrested? Scratching my head……
ATLien, what happened to ethics in journalism? After all the negative reviews that Phaedra Parks received about her cooning ways and her crooked husband, you have never written a bad post about them. Not one post has been written by you regarding her husband’s criminal history. It amazes me that you would post a huge story about this new housewife and post her mugshots for the world to see. It also amazes me that you previously disparaged Mayor Bill Campbell. Not only was he one of the best mayors that Atlanta has even seen but he is still loved by many of the people of Atlanta. Mayor Campbell did great things for our city but you still chose to insult him by calling him a "prisoner" in one of your posts. Mayor Campbell was NOT convicted of the crimes initially brought against him by the federal government. He was stripped of his law license and reputation for a mere $6500 in unpaid taxes. It’s unbelievable that you have given Apollo Nida more respect than a previous mayor of this city. As a journalist, you disparaged Bill Campbell and Marlo Hampton but never wrote a single negative post about Phaedra and her husband?? A convicted felon and a coon lawyer. Is that because Phaedra Parks happens to be a close friend of yours? Although I have nothing against Phaedra or her husband, if you are going to write negative posts then be fair about the way you sling mud.
Ms.Marlo Hampton you better show your azz. I WILL now watchRHOA cause of you cause i was done! Do your thang cause i feel you…WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER YOU DO BETTER! HOLD IT DOWN SISTER.
Ms.Marlo Hampton you better show your azz. I WILL now watchRHOA cause of you cause i was done! Do your thang cause i feel you…
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Baby girl, you dont have to explain yourself, we all have a past, so don’t even trip off these stupid has people on this blog, most of their family members have records or are on drugs!!! Now GET IN THER AND CHECK NENE’S BULLY ASS. Im just saying. She starts shit then play the victum where ever she go. check mate
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My problem with this is how could a caliber of woman like this make it on a national program of "REAL Housewives of Atlanta"? This show continues to make us as a whole look more and more ghetto.. How low are they going to go? Other women from cities would not accept a person of this caliber on their show or would want be forced to associate with her to make ratings.. Why aren’t we petitioning Bravo that we aren’t going to accept someone with a past on a show like this to represent us? That is the point!!
If we don’t stand for something we will fall for anything!!
I won’t be watching Real Housewives anymore and will be trying to get a petition because I don’t like anyone with a felon representing me as a African American on national television.. This is getting ridiculous! I can see why Lisa Wu Hartwell quit or moved..
Peace!
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Is this truly the best that Atlanta has to offer???
Why are we always depicted as baby-momma’s, long-term GF, and ex-wives? I dont care to see NeNe and Marlo fighting over no man!!! This is idiocy!
If you actually google these lady’s net worth you will find that they are BROKE! In debt up to their bad weaves!
RHONJ’s couple Teresa Giudice and her husband, Joe, make just $79,000 a year and are up to their tanned necks in liens, foreclosures and unpaid bills, according to bankruptcy papers filed in Newark federal court.The Giudices say they owe creditors $10,853,648.04.
It’s all fake. It’s a fraud. It’s fugaise.
Quit perpetraiting a FRAUD! Live within your means!
S/N: Thank GOD someone hooked up Cynthia’s Weave for that picture!!! Her hair was looking rough on her wedding day too!
I found her statement quite sincere. I been in foster care, not in the states, and I have kicked some deserving bitches asses. Im not black, and I didnt grow up here, thank god, I seriously doubt I would be sane or safe for the public living trough some of the harsher realities of this country, foster care, jail, abuse, blatant racism.. yeah, put her on the show I say, she be the only one that wouldnt be scared of ne ne when she goes off..
Marlo equals one word = Sociopath…Bravo has made a mockery of African American Women. I’m over it. If I’m going to watch any women exploit themselves I’ll watch the Kardashian’s at least their being pimped by their mother and not Andy Cohen!
@ Florida Says: U must have read threw the part when she said that she have been aressted 7 times!!! Um slicing someone face open is just 1 of the charges! Dummy!
@ Just Glow: So sad but so true! This was an all time low…this chick been locked up 7 times and just because you were raised in a foster home does not make a good excuse to be violent and a criminal with a rap sheet as long as NeNe new Nose and her feet!! Im sorry just not buying it!! My mother raised 2 foster kids which one is a college graduate and the other 1 is in college so that’s BS!! That chic is just crazy and ready to snap at any moment…and the sad part is the rest of the charges are felonies too! Wowser!
Hell there are women right now who have had babies by men with Rap Sheets and worse crimes than these. I don’t knock anyone for their past. Hell I ain’t squeaky clean, I have two children by two different men that are ten years apart. (I do not make these kind of exceptions for Murders or anyone that hurts a child or an elderly person) I don’t know anything about Marlo Hampton to say that she’s a totally horrible woman. I deal with what is presented to me in the present. I don’t let any female get too close to me. So it wouldn’t be an issue
She’s whack. She seems like a copycat fraud. Run her mouth like NeNe. Lies like Sheree. Uses “Big Poppa” to death like Kim used to. I have to wait to see the rest. Who the hell is this random chick anyway? What makes her valid?
Hard Knock Life, really? That’s a piss poor excuse if I heard one.
Wouldn’t be in my circle , can’t trust her!
She tried to put Kandi on blast but the question was what do u do for a living not what you spend ur money on
I was SO annoyed by her even being in the episode. And she was so messy trying to talk to Kim and her hubby. Delete her from the show asap
Oh yes she is a mess but i hope she try phaedra up cause phae phae bout that life & will give her the bizness if u a whore sweetie embrace it boo do you but dayum don’t start wit Kandi of all people. Kandi got old money sometimes that’s what ya got to do @ not me lol but i can understand a woman of her caliber partaking that lifestyle time to time.
And further more sit yo azz down ain’t Charles just bounced a check gurl stop lmao
Thank you Jay…she needs to fire her "publicist." I’m not trying to judge her, but that really was tacky.
All I wanna know is out of allllllll of the women in Atlanta, how in the hell did she get a spot? Why is she even on RHOA? Last night she basically admitted to being a prostitute, so her "past" isn’t that far behind her.
Not she who is a list elite naw not her hmph
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