Subsequent Gen NYC star Riley Burruss opened up about receiving monetary help from mother Kandi Burruss as she embarks on her personal profession.
Riley not too long ago revealed on her new Bravo present that Kandi gave her a one-year deadline to grow to be financially secure after graduating from school. The aspiring leisure lawyer, 22, was quizzed on whether or not she is financially impartial now that the deadline has handed throughout an look with Kandi, 49, on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen on Tuesday, July 15.
“No, she didn't reduce [me off] however as a result of I'm nonetheless going to get my grasp's diploma,” Riley clarified to host Andy Cohen. “I'm nonetheless going to go to high school.”
When an viewers member requested which college Riley picked for her subsequent larger training diploma, she admitted: “We'll see which college. I don't like to inform everybody precisely what I'm doing however I'm going to get my grasp's.”
Cohen congratulated Riley for furthering her training however bluntly requested “when” she had time to pursue her grasp's diploma given her busy filming schedule on Subsequent Gen NYC.
“I'm finding out now,” she clarified. “I'm finding out for taking the [LSAT law school entry] take a look at in August.”
Kandi then interjected, “Y'all pray for my child that she passes and will get good, excessive scores on the take a look at!”
Riley graduated school with a bachelor of science diploma in music enterprise from New York College in Could 2024. She subsequently confessed on Subsequent Gen NYC that she actually didn't get an opportunity to have fun her achievement resulting from a looming monetary deadline.
Kandi Burruss and Riley Burruss in June 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Natasha Campos/Getty Photographs for BET
“I really feel pressured and on a time crunch as a result of my mother has given me one yr earlier than she cuts me off financially,” she defined in a confessional interview.
Cash has not been the one supply of stress for Riley on Subsequent Gen NYC. She's spending much more time with childhood buddy and now-costar Ariana Biermann, which has been awkward at instances given their moms' notoriously contentious relationship.
Actual Housewives of Atlanta viewers will in all probability do not forget that Riley's mom, Kandi, and Ariana's mother, Kim Zolciak-Biermann, collaborated on Kim's breakout single “Tardy for the Celebration” again within the day. The one-time mates famously fell out over the monetary success of the observe, with RHOA costar Phaedra Parks even representing Kandi as her legal professional in a lawsuit to recoup income that she felt she was owed as one of many “Tardy for the Celebration” songwriters.
Kandi's lawsuit was in the end thrown out in 2013 when a decide dominated there wasn't sufficient proof to proceed, based on TheWrap. The previous mates later clashed as soon as once more — with Kandi referring to Kim as a “lying-ass bitch” — when Kim briefly returned to RHOA as a “buddy” in season 10.
“Riley's mother and my mother was greatest mates,” Ariana, 23, defined to Subsequent Gen NYC viewers in a June episode. “Me and Riley spent so a few years collectively and household holidays. My mother and her mother don't have a relationship anymore.”
Riley confessed that she was by no means utterly certain what “what our mothers beefed about,” although she admitted that Kandi as soon as warned her that the notorious Housewives feud was “not my enterprise.”
Hudson McLeroy, Ariana Biermann, Gia Giudice and Riley Burruss, of ‘Subsequent Gen NYC,' at Us Weekly + Maidenform Actuality Star Model Awards Celebration. Dave Kotinsky/Getty Photographs for Us Weekly
“Each of our mother and father respect our friendship and are completely happy that we're mates,” Ariana confirmed.
Subsequent Gen NYC airs on Bravo on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and is on the market to stream the subsequent day on Peacock.
 
 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 