What Dennis McKinley's Alleged Mistress Sincerely Ward Says About Meeting Him
A Real Housewife is wondering if her man cheated on her with a WAGs Atlanta Star.
Instagram Season 12 of Real Housewives of Atlanta is beginning and the big question on everyone's mind is what's happening with Porsha and Dennis. The couple welcomed their first child together last summer but right after baby Pilar was born, there were rumors that Dennis had been cheating.
A YouTuber named Tasha B took to her channel to say that Dennis had been running around behind Porsha's back with Sincerely Ward, a star of the E! show WAGs Atlanta. Now Porsha is admitting that there has been trouble in her relationship with Dennis and that cameras will be capturing it all this season. But she won't say what happened or who was involved.
Who is Sincerely Ward? Read on for all the details.
1. Porsha and Dennis
Real Housewives of Atlanta fans have watched as Porsha Williams joined the cast in 2012 then divorced husband Kordell Stewart in 2013. She spent the next few years single and until she met Dennis McKinley, an Atlanta area entrepreneur. In 2018, she announced her pregnancy and quickly followed that up with an announcement that she and Dennis were engaged. It seemed like she would finally be getting her happily ever after story.
2. Is Dennis cheating?
Everything took a turn for the worse over the summer of 2019. In May, US Weekly reported that Porsha unfollowed Dennis on Instagram and so had her mother and sister. The Dish Nation radio host followed him back in fairly short order but fans took it as a sign of trouble between the new parents. At the time, her daughter Pilar was only two months old.
Then in June, a YouTuber named Tasha K said Dennis was cheating on Porsha. Dennis quickly leaped into a defensive posture and hired lawyers to deny the allegations. “These false and slanderous allegations against me are made solely to damage my reputation, jeopardize my ongoing businesses, and negatively impact my family,” he said. “My attempts to ignore this slander have only empowered Latasha Kebe (aka Tasha K.) to create more false accusations. I am currently taking legal action — and am currently being represented by Michael T. Sterling of Dreyer Sterling, LLC.”
3. Who is Sincerely Ward?
Tasha K didn't just say Dennis was cheating; she said she was cheating specifically with Sincerely Ward. Ward, a former model, is a star on the E! show WAGs Atlanta. Her official bio for the show says: "Sincerely Ward is the cousin of retired football player Derrick Ward. Sincerely is a single lady but has been previously linked to several football and basketball players." WAGs isn't her first foray into reality TV. She also appeared on Bravo’s The New Atlanta and WE TV’s Match Made in Heaven.
These days she is focused on business and owns two CleanStart Holistic Spa franchises and is the CEO of JetSet Culture, an international resort wear brand.
Ward is a former model.
4. Ward denies it all
Ward can't say for sure if Dennis is cheating on Porsha or not but she will say if he is, it isn't with her. "I really have no clue where this came from. It’s bizarre, I’ve never met Dennis,” she told E! News. “In Atlanta, it’s easy to have 6-degrees of separation [but] to my knowledge, I don’t even know if we’ve even been in the same room together.”
5. Ward goes on the record
She was willing to make that statement on camera and did a short appearance on RHOA to say so. She joined some of the cast in a restaurant to let them know that she didn't even know Dennis and she suspected the rumors were the work of a "hateful vindictive" ex of his.
6. Fans will see it all
Now Porsha is telling fans they'll see everything in the new season of the show, and it sounds like there may be some truth to the cheating rumors, even if Sincerely Ward wasn't part of it.
“Fans will see everything. I think fans like the fact that I’ve always been very honest and transparent, and I definitely had to just dig in and continue to be that way, even though I was going through a hard time," Porsha told reporters. “Fans will see us in counseling and will see me dealing with real life. A lot of what a lot of people deal with in relationships, they’re going to see on TV — the good and the bad and the ugly.”
“We’re happy and we’re raising our daughter together,” Porsha says about their current relationship status. “It’s been a long road, one we’re still on. We’re going day by day rebuilding our relationship and making sure our foundation is where we want it to be to have a strong family.”
The new season of RHOA is running on Bravo on Sunday nights.
Rebekah Kuschmider has been writing about celebrities, pop culture, entertainment, and politics since 2010. Her work has been seen at Ravishly, Babble, Scary Mommy, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and she is a cohost of the weekly podcast The More Perfect Union.