Real Housewives Of Atlanta: Marlo Hampton cries while discussing rough childhood in foster care

Marlo Hampton cried while talking about her rough childhood in foster homes on Sunday during the first reunion episode of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta.

The 46-year-old reality star opened up during the season 14 reunion as she spoke about her own mother who struggled with drug abuse.

‘I just need her. I feel every girl needs her mom or dad, and I don’t think my mom gets it. She doesn’t get it. She doesn’t get it,’ Marlo said after reunion host Andy Cohen, 54, showed a clip of her mother visiting her.

Marlo said admitted that she hates to talk about her mother because her childhood also was tough.

‘My grandmother didn’t know how to be a mom, so my mom went through a lot, but I want my mom sometime. I want her when I just have a bad day. If the girls make me mad, I would love to go talk to my mom, or I love when I see Mama Joyce, how she protects Kandi, or she’ll get a attitude at me ’cause a mom should do that, and I just feel like I’m so by myself,’ Marlo added referencing Kandi Burruss, 46, and her protective mother.

Marlo started crying as she talked about running away at age 10 and feeling unworthy among her castmates.

‘What happened when you were ten?,’ Andy asked.

‘That’s when I ran away from home, and then I went to five foster homes,’ Marlo said.

Andy then asked if she ran away from home at such a young age because her parents were abusing drugs.

‘It was because my mom had beat me so bad that day. And I went in the bathroom, and I bathed my little brother, and I told him I’ll be back, and he was even mad with me for years ’cause he felt that I never came back for him, but I was 10, but I knew I was just tired of being beat,’ Marlo said.

Marlo said she ran away to a Jamaican family who took her in from the church, but she was abused again.

She recalled how she called a social worker and went to a foster home in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Marlo said she told people the household was ‘strict’ and later was told she had to leave.

She then she went to another foster home in St. Petersburg, but the schoolteacher had a daughter who felt like she wasn’t getting enough attention and booted her.

Marlo said she then became ‘mad at the world’ and started getting into ‘a lot of trouble’ as she tried to figure out life on her own.

‘What does it do to you as a kid to be in search of a home like that?,’ Andy asked.

‘I don’t know, Andy. I don’t know all the answers. I just know it hurts just trying to be someone and just constantly not being allowed in circles or people judging you ’cause of who you are or ’cause of your past,’ Marlo said tearfully.

She called herself an ‘iconic ex-con’ for sitting next to ‘media mogul’ Andy and her accomplished castmates.

‘I cry and I hurt ’cause I want mommy sometime. I want a dad sometime,’ Marlo said.

‘Have you all had this conversation with Marlo about her past and where she’s been?,’ Andy asked the others.

‘A little bit, but not as deep. Like, this is the first time I’m ever hearing details,’ said Sheree Whitfield, 52.

Kandi also confirmed that she was learning new details about Marlo.

Marlo became a full-time cast member this season and Andy asked if it was such a big deal for her ‘to get a peach’ in light of her past.

She admitted there were times when she wondered if she was worthy.

‘And it just went to where you numb yourself, and you’re like, you know what? You’re not worthy enough, or you’re too ghetto, as some of ’em said, or, oh, you’re an ex-con. …And it’s like look at me. Can I fit in? Can you love me?,’ Marlo said.

Andy later asked Marlo if she’s ever had ‘an emotionally and sexually fulfilling relationship with a man’ after she admitted to having ‘daddy issues.’

‘I have not because, like I said earlier, running away from home at 10, five different foster homes, you can only imagine things that I’ve been through. You can only imagine things that I’ve had to survive. When people judge me, they don’t know half my story. They couldn’t walk a mile in my shoes, to live on the streets, and go into people houses, and sleeping on mattresses on the floor,’ Marlo said.

Kenya Moore, 51, tried to interrupt and said Marlo wasn’t telling the truth as the episode ended.

The reunion also featured show newcomer Sanya Richards-Ross, 37, crying as she confronted Drew Sidora, 37, for betraying her trust.

Sanya said she was ‘really, really hurt’ over the allegation and insisted that she was genuinely trying to get to know everybody on the show.

‘Drew, honestly, you have to stop acting and start being real. I came on this platform trying to be everybody’s friend. …You’re not cool, bro,’ Sanya told her.

Andy asked if it was a ‘friendship breaker’ between them and said he hoped they could work it out.

The Real Housewives Of Atlanta reunion will return next week for the second part of the three-part reunion on Bravo.

A preview showed Kenya accusing Marlo of being fake and revealing her real name.