Nicci Gilbert leaves 'R&B Divas,' but not fired?

Mstars recently reported that some of the ladies of TV One's,"R&B Divas Atlanta," would not be back for another season. In an interview with madamenoire.com, the former Brownstone singer explained why she wouldn't be making an appearance the third time around, and whether or not we'll ever see that R&B Divas tour.

Gilbert explained that she realized the show was not a good look for her brand, and that her businesses even started to take a hit from the bad reputation she was getting on the show. "I just realized that it really wasn't a good look for me as a 43-year-old woman with a daughter that I'm trying to raise." Gilbert said she wanted to set a good example and felt that bickering back and forth with the women she started the whole series as friends with was just not for her. She even spilled that she originally wanted to leave the show after season one, but had a change of heart.

"I actually wasn't going to come back for season two because there were things that occurred that I wasn't happy about." Gilbert also mentions that the show portrayed her as one way, and never showed her fully.

Gilbert is currently working on some new projects and says,"I'm still getting a check as a producer, so please, tune into "R&B Divas!" Gilbert is working on her own reality show, coming out in 2014, and says it will paint her in more than just the one dimensional way folks saw her on "R&B Divas." She also says that people can expect to see that "R&B Divas" tour after all, just not on Thanksgiving as the ladies initially planned.

"It's not because, oh, 'nobody wanted to see it.' There was just a really busy touring schedule in Atlanta. We do have a market, so the tour will happen, it will just be happening in March." As for who will take part in the "Diary of a Diva" tour, Gilbert says she'll have more of a hosting responsibility, but Faith Evans will be there, Keke Wyatt will take part, as will Kelly Price, but the other ladies aren't on board. This includes Syleena Johnson, who tried to coordinate a totally different tour that couldn't come together during season two.

"We already had promoters and a tour on the table. So when I went to Syleena's house in season two and she started talking about a tour, I was like, 'Wait, what!?' This is real life?"

Gilbert went on to say she would love to be cordial with the ladies of "R&B Divas," and work together when the tour starts in March. "I hope that before then we can come together and do what the show was originally intended to be about."

Now that she's leaving the reality show behind, Gilbert was open about the effects the negativity of everything, including the fans being turned away from the show.

"There were times where I would wake up so stressed, I thought I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown." And she does want to share a message with her detractors, for herself and women like Kelly Price and Dawn Robinson, who have become something of the "bad girls" of the franchise. She says that people need to understand that there's more to "the truth" and their stories than people get to see. "Try to have an open mind...at the end of the day, reality stars are just doing what they can to feed their families."