Less than 15 minutes into the premiere episode of Next Gen NYC, Ariana Biermann reveals some shocking information about her mom Kim Zolciak and her estranged stepdad Kroy Biermann.
According to Ariana, Zolciak and Kroy — who adopted her and her sister Brielle Biermann in 2013 — allegedly drained her bank account without her knowledge.
“I have been on TV since I was five years old. I did reality television with my family and then I started posting on Instagram,” Ariana explains in her confessional. “I got my first brand deal when I was 14. I was doing three posts a week. You get paid astronomical to do a story or to do an Instagram post and I made quite a bit of money.”
She adds, “But unfortunately, my parents took my money.”
Ariana says she doesn’t know how they spent the money, noting that she only found out it was gone two years ago.
“I don’t even know how much money I made over the time period,” she continues. “Nobody was honest, there was no transparency, and I have no idea where it actually went.”
Ariana explains that her willingness to send her mom money has been a point of contention with her boyfriend Hudson McLeroy, who gets “upset” when Zolciak asks for financial help.
“Did I see my mom drinking a $200 bottle of wine on her story the other day?” Ariana asks him in the scene, to which he replies, “She almost brags to us, like, ‘Oh, yeah. I’m drinking the same bottle of wine right now.’ I’m like, ‘Why are you doing that?’”
However, Ariana acknowledges that Zolciak is going through a “crazy divorce” with Kroy and still has four young kids. “I never want money to destroy a relationship with my family, ever,” she says.
Shortly before the Real Housewives of Atlanta alum filed for divorce from the ex-NFL star in 2023, TMZ obtained documents stating they owed the IRS over $1 million in “unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties.” Kroy claimed Zolciak’s alleged gambling addiction “financially devastated” their family, while Zolciak accused Kroy of smoking marijuana and demanded that he be drug tested. That fall, they listed their seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom Atlanta mansion for a whopping $6 million, though it finally sold in February of this year for $2.75 million.
Next Gen NYC airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.