Ever since NeNe Leakes became the breakout star of Real Housewives of Atlanta, it's as though her reputation's been dragged through the...well, if not mud, how about a patio littered with fecal matter?

Yes, that's the unfortunate new stain on the reputation of Anderson Cooper's favorite housewife, who recently got kicked out of the mansion she lived in on the show. Now, Fox's Atlanta-area affiliate has done more digging, exposing a six-figure Leakes debt, some reality show fakery, and a weird story about the couple letting friends rent a house that ended up with filled with rats and "human waste on the patio" (sounds like a typical Thursday at Defamer HQ). Does it suggest that there's an actual Poop Gate at the heart of PoopGate? Somewhere, at an Appleby's just off the freeway, rival Kim Zolciak is surely smiling. Clip below: