A certain Love & Marriage: Huntsville newcomer is addressing past comments made about her, and BOSSIP’s got your exclusive first look at the “coleslaw” clapback that comes with a side of chicken tenders.
Arionne Curry is egging on her issues with Destiny Payton, so much so that she’s giving Martell Holt’s longtime bestie a super shady nickname.
As previously reported, OWN’s hit unscripted series Love & Marriage: Huntsville continues chronicling the triumphs, tensions and transformations of longtime friends and occasional frenemies navigating life, love and business in Huntsville, Alabama. This season, major changes are testing the cast’s relationships, families and careers, while a loooong-talked-about, rarely seen addition to the group is stirring up fresh drama.
That addition is Arionne Curry, who sits down with Miss Nell Fletcher in Saturday’s episode to air out her issues with Destiny Payton.
“What exactly was said about you?” Nell asks Martell’s multiyear mistress-turned-girlfriend.
“She made the comment, ‘It took me two years to be around the b****,’” Arionne replies.
A flashback then shows Destiny discussing Arionne with the group and recalling that it actually took her three years to associate with Arionne.
“I didn’t. It took me three years to even be in a space with that girl, real talk,” says Destiny. “I wouldn’t dare talk to that b**** on the phone!”
Arionne tells Nell that the comments “totally threw” her off, considering she and Destiny had previously been around each other, including at one of Martell’s birthday dinners at Cheesecake Factory.
According to Arionne, the public only knew that she and Destiny had associated with each other because Destiny posted a photo from the gathering.
“The only reason that anybody even knew that I knew Destiny, or we had ever been around each other, is because one day Martell had a birthday dinner at Cheesecake [Factory], and she posted a picture,” says Arionne.
She adds that if Destiny has an “underlying issue” with her because of Martell, that’s something Destiny will have to deal with.
“Baby, I ain’t going nowhere,” Arionne defiantly says.
Following that, Arionne dives deeper into the dinner outing and alleges that Destiny ordered chicken tenders and fries for her “little” son, but her card was allegedly declined.
Arionne claims that when the waitress quietly alerted her about the declined payment, she spared Destiny any embarrassment and went directly to Martell, who picked up the bill.
“The waitress come up to me, and she whispered. She’s like, ‘It’s declined,’” recalls Arionne. “I didn’t even say nothing to Destiny. I took it straight to Martell. Martell took the bill, you know, paid for this.”
And considering that she’s been dubbed “coleslaw,”, a nod to her being a side dish to Martell’s now ex-wife, Arionne thinks she’s found a fitting food-related nickname of her own.
“Y’all wanna sit up here and call me coleslaw; call her chicken tender!” says Arionne.
Oh, girrrrrrrrl.
As previously reported, Arionne’s arrival on Love & Marriage: Huntsville marks the first time the mother of Martell’s youngest son has officially appeared in the series after years of being discussed by the cast.
Her relationship with Destiny is already shaping up to be especially contentious, with a heated face-to-face confrontation between the two women still to come.
