Bethenny Frankel has just announced her return to The Real Housewives of New York, but it looks like she's already bringing the drama along with her. Rumor has it that the single celebrity mother is upset because she is vying with NeNe Leakes to be the highest-paid Bravo Housewife ever.

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According to the New York Daily News on Thursday, Frankel wants to be paid just as much as Leakes, if not more for each episode that she stars in.

A source told the site, "Bethenny is getting paid just as much as NeNe, which is $250,000 an episode. NeNe is now pissed because she took time off from other projects to film the new season, and she was the highest paid of all the Housewives, until Bethenny was in negotiations to come back."

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What's more, it doesn't look like Frankel is backing down either, making it hard for producers to negotiate with her. Frankel supposedly thinks that she'll be able to "bring in the ratings" as viewers will be tuning in to see her more than the other ladies on the show.

The source added, "She makes more than all of the other women, but she also brings the ratings, which have not been great the past few seasons. Listen, if she can get it, why not ask for it?"

Meanwhile, Leakes has been supposedly suffering from health problems while filming The Real Housewives of Atlanta and even stayed home while the rest of the cast filmed a few episodes in the Philippines.

According to the report, the Atlanta series is the highest-rated show of the franchise.

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