Despite reports stating the contrary, Jordan told “The Breakfast Club” that she has not been banished from one of the most popular reality shows in America.
“I’m still in the mix. I’m still in play with the ‘Housewives.’ I’ve not been released from my contract. The way it works is they test people out every year and they see if they can get someone in there to change it up, get in the mix and kind of bring life. So people don’t get their peach status, a lot of times, until halfway during the season, and that’s what happened to me [last season],”
Jordan said she felt she stepped into a snake-pit when she replaced the ultra popular co-host of RSMS, Ebony Steele. She became the object of Steele fans’ ire and disgust, so she felt she was placed in a no-win situation from the jump.
“I don’t know. Ebony was dope. She actually reached out to me. She’s been real cool. It was tough to step into that job after Ebony Steele. She’s actually one of the best in the game. No one really understood why she wasn’t there anymore. Including myself. She was dope and I think she should still be there,” Jordan said.
“I got brought into the mix with very hostile fans because they wanted answers. They want to know why she wasn’t there,” Jordan added.
Now, as far as her dismissal from the “Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Jordan came real about how she was treated, some of Smiley’s allegedly petty ways and how Jordan believes Smiley handcuffed her, stifled her creativity and created an environment that was impossible to win within.
Flip the e-page to peep out what else Jordan had to say about Smiley and if they are even friends anymore: 
Claudia Jordan on being banished from eating in same room with Smiley:
“It’s true. We all ate breakfast every day. But then one day, I was told that it was annoying that I ate and that I should eat in the other room. I was pulled aside [by one of the producers] who said, ‘Do you have to eat every day?’ I said, ‘I prefer to eat every day’. … So everyone’s eating every day and … I was pulled to the side by one of the producers and it was just like, ‘It kind of annoys someone that you eat.’ I thought it was a joke … some days he [Rickey] was extremely nice.
Jordan on being handcuffed on the show and stifling her creativity:
“The first three days I was there, I killed it and that’s why I got the contract. I went hard. I remember being told, ‘Hey, be the voice of reason.’ And then Rickey said, ‘No! Let this motherf—— go! She goes! And then I went. And then my Twitter blew up. And then a couple of weeks later, it was like, ‘You know you don’t always have to try to be funny. Just read the news.’ The it was ‘don’t speak during sports.’ And I got reduced.”
Jordan on being blamed for low ratings/numbers.
“It’s possible that my numbers weren’t high because I don’t feel like I was operating at 100 percent.”
Jordan goes on to say whether or not she is friends with Smiley after how she was treated on and off the air:
After all that went down, Jordan answered if she and Smiley are even friends anymore:
“I think he liked me personally, but I will say I don’t think I was a good fit for the show … I don’t think we’re now cool, personally. Not from what I’m hearing. People call me form the sho Jw and they say, ‘I don’t like what’s being said about you.’”
On the accusation that Rickey Smiley spread that she smashed Special K:
“I wrote a letter to Rickey I wanna send it to him. But I heard he changed his number already.”
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