--- title: "Candiace Dillard Reveals Why She Quit RHOP" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2024/09/23/candiace-dillard-why-quit-rhop/ type: post date: 2024-09-23 modified: 2024-09-23 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2024/09/23/candiace-dillard-why-quit-rhop.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Candiace Dillard Reveals Why She Quit RHOP ## Candiace Dillard reveals the real reason she quit RHOP nearly six months after announcing her exit from the hit Bravo series. *The Real Housewives of Potomac* will soon return to Bravo for its [9th season](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/09/13/real-housewives-of-potomac-season-9/)but without some familiar faces. Longtime stars Candiace Dillard and [Robyn Dixon](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-potomac/robyn-dixon/) announced their departures from RHOP earlier this year. The 37-year-old mom to be joined the Potomac Housewives franchise during season 3. In April 2023, ahead of the RHOP season 8 reunion, Candiace Dillard [abruptly announced that she was leaving the show](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/04/15/candiace-dillard-bassett-expecting/) after six seasons. She also announced that she and her husband, Chris Bassett, were [expecting their first child, a little boy](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/09/05/rhop-candiace-dillard-baby-boy/), due this autumn. ![RHOP](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/canidace-dillard-baby-boy-900x1200.png) Now, [Candiace Dillard](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-potomac/candiace-dillard/) is opening up about her decision to leave the series. The RHOP alum appeared on the YouTube channel, *[According to Blake](https://www.youtube.com/@AccordingToBlake)*, to discuss why she had left the show. The interviewer asked Candiace if she decided to exit the Potomac Housewives franchise after learning she was pregnant. ![Candiace Dillard Bassett Expecting First Child Amid Quitting RHOP](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/rhop-chris-bassett.png) ***“Yes. That is the only reason,” ***Candiace responded before admitting, ***“I was ready to go halfway through season eight. So many things were going on. Not just on camera with the cast, but behind the scenes.”*** She continues,*** “I can’t be in battle with talent and production. That’s too much. Like, Tamar Braxton says all the tim***e, ***‘I only wanna have beef with the devil.’ I can’t be beefing with the devil, talent, and the people whose job it is to protect us.”*** ![RHOP Reunion: Candiace Dillard Tells Mia Thornton To Be ‘Grateful’ For Her Insults & Takes Zero Accountability For Her Actions](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Candy.jpg) ***“I started to not feel safe. This is not a slight at Bravo directly, but there were people at our production company who contributed to me just not feeling safe. So I don’t know. Pregnant or not, I was ready to go,”*** the 37-year-old shares. ***“But definitely, when we decided we were going to do an embryo implantation, I knew that it was not a safe space for me. My first egg retrieval failed because I was going through that process at the same time that the allegations about Chris making that girl feel uncomfortable came out. That all happened at the same time,” ***she adds. > [View this post on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_1sxRDMeGF/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)[A post shared by The Bravo Shaderoom (@thebravoshaderoom)](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_1sxRDMeGF/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) Season 9 of* [The Real Housewives of Potomac](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-potomac/) *premieres Sunday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.  ## Thoughts on this all? Sound off in the comments!