Kandi Burruss wasn’t all the time as candy as her namesake whereas filming “The Actual Housewives of Atlanta” Season 15 — and Sanya Richards-Ross has a principle behind her co-star’s “hotheaded” habits.

The four-time Olympic gold medalist, 38, says on Web page Six’s “Digital Reali-Tea” podcast that she believes pressure in Burruss’ marriage with Todd Tucker permeated feuds with castmate Marlo Hampton and collection beginner Courtney Rhodes.

“When you may have somebody who works a lot and works so laborious in a relationship, and you’ve got somebody like Todd who additionally aspires to do a whole lot of nice issues, that would trigger a whole lot of pressure,” Richards-Ross notes.

The newest “RHOA” installment will see the couple grapple with conflicting schedules and issues that Burruss’ enterprise objectives take precedence over Tucker’s.

“They usually each agree, it’s all the time about Kandi, Kandi, Kandi,” Richards-Ross says of the multihyphenate, who lately acquired a Tony nomination for her work on Broadway’s revival of “August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.”

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“So I feel for him, particularly this 12 months, he’s like, ‘Look, I’ve acquired some issues I wish to work on, they usually’re going to be on the entrance burner, ma’am, not on the again burner. So that you’re going to should determine it out,’” the athlete provides.

Richards-Ross surmises that such marital strife made Burruss, 46 — who shares son Ace, 7, and daughter Blaze, 3, with Tucker, 49 — extra “emotional” when navigating battle of their circle of associates.

Within the trailer for “RHOA” Season 15, Burruss engages in heated exchanges with each Hampton, 47, and “good friend of the Housewives” Rhodes, 48.

“The one cause I’m crying proper now’s as a result of I can’t f–king choke your ass, bitch,” the Grammy winner tells Hampton throughout one explosive dialog.

In a separate scene, Burruss says she is “about to head-butt this bitch,” referring to Rhodes.

“I feel that she’s very emotional this season due to that, due to her making an attempt to determine that out and juggling [her relationship with Tucker],” Richards-Ross tells us. “I really feel like typically she’s actually, actually emotional and actually slightly bit extra hotheaded this season.”

“The Actual Housewives of Atlanta” Season 15 premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.