{"id":2467872,"date":"2026-06-20T02:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467872"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:46:47","slug":"nene-leakes-son-bryson-arrested-for-violating-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nene-leakes-son-bryson-arrested-for-violating-probation\/","title":{"rendered":"NeNe Leakes&#8217; Son Bryson Arrested for Violating Probation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bryson Bryant<\/strong>, the son of <em>Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/em> alum <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/nene-leakes\/\"><strong>NeNe Leakes<\/strong><\/a>, has been arrested after reportedly violating his probation.<\/p>\n<p>According to jail records <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/19\/nene-leakes-son-bryson-in-jail-over-unpaid-child-support-missing-drug-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obtained by <em>TMZ<\/em> <\/a>on Friday, June 19, Bryant has been held in a Georgia jail since May 1 after being booked for allegedly failing to meet the terms of his probation and failing to pay child support.\u00a0 The outlet reported his bail is set at $27,000.<\/p>\n<p><em>TMZ<\/em> reported the probation violation is in relation to his July 2023 arrest, when he was found with fentanyl in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents obtained by <em>Us Weekly<\/em> at the time, Bryant was booked on multiple charges in Lawrenceville, Georgia, including violating probation, possession of a schedule II controlled substance, loitering\/prowling and giving a false name to a law enforcement officer after he allegedly told police he was his younger half-brother, <strong>Brentt Leakes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant\u2019s drug charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement. However, he was sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine, complete 40 hours of community service and submit to random drug testing.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents obtained by <em>TMZ<\/em>, Bryant failed to fulfill any of the conditions of his probation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> has reached out to Leakes\u2019 representative for comment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4358036\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n (L-R): Brentt Leakes, Bryson Bryant and NeNe Leakes.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">(Photo by: Wilford Harewood\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/nene-leakes-breaks-silence-on-son-brysons-arrest-addiction\/\">Leakes previously spoke<\/a> about her son\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/nene-leakes-refuses-to-bail-son-bryson-bryant-out-of-jail-201223\/\">legal troubles<\/a> during a July 2023 episode of podcast, \u201cReality With the King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, Leakes, 58, told podcast host <strong>Carlos King<\/strong> that Bryant \u201cneeds rehabilitation\u201d and \u201ca lot of counseling,\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe has an addiction. He\u2019s been struggling with it for years,\u201d she explained, adding that her son has been to rehab and relapsed multiple times. \u201cAs a mom, just to watch it is \u2014 my hands are tied. You know, he\u2019s 31 years old, he\u2019s an adult. He has three children, three beautiful children who I adore. He has a wife. [There\u2019s] not much that I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leakes also stressed that recovery ultimately comes down to the individual struggling with addiction, noting that no family member or loved one can make that decision for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spent so much money to get Bryson where he needs to be, but every time I sent him off, I said, \u2018You are giving your ass up and we are sending you off.\u2019 But I learned through counseling myself that he has to say, \u2018I am ready to go,\u2019 not me making him go,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo until Bryson is ready to make a change, there\u2019s nothing I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryson Bryant, the son of Real Housewives of Atlanta alum NeNe Leakes, has been arrested after reportedly violating his probation. According to jail records obtained by TMZ on Friday, June 19, Bryant has been held in a Georgia jail since May 1 after being booked for allegedly failing to meet the terms of his probation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,21738,311686],"class_list":["post-2467872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news","tag-the-real-housewives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NeNe-Leakes-Son-Bryson-Arrested-for-Violating-Probation.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467874,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467872\/revisions\/2467874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}