The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss will feature her new lover, NFL star Willis McGahee on the new series of the popular reality show, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Burruss’ friends and family are hoping that her relationship with the 28-year-old Baltimore Ravens running-back will help mend her broken heart following the tragic death of her fiancée Ashley ‘A.J.’ Jewell last year.

Jewell – who also appeared in the reality show – died October 2, 2009 at Piedmont Hospital following a fight he had in the parking lot of Body Tap, a West Atlanta strip club Jewell partly owned.

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Burruss, an R&B singer who fronted the '90s group Xscape, was left devastated by Jewell’s death.

She wrote on Twitter shortly afterwards: “im just in one of those moods where i dont wanna talk, i dont wanna b held & told its gonna b ok. i just wanna cry myself 2 sleep, alone,”

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