RadarOnline.com:
As Phaedra Parks continues to wrap up her divorce from incarcerated Apollo Nida, the Real Housewives of Atlanta
star is insisting she was a devoted wife to the end. Despite the fact
that she skipped his fraud sentencing earlier this year, and distanced
herself from her husband as soon as his legal issues became public, the
reality star says their marriage issues went much deeper — and RadarOnline.com has all the details!
As Radar reported, Nida was first implicated in a massive fraud
scheme in January, after which he and Parks were rarely photographed
together.
In her new Bravo blog,
she explained the distance as the result of her busy schedule. “I
received my mortuary science degree this summer after attending school
full-time for two years,” she wrote. I have also been on a national book
tour to promote the paperback release of Secrets of the Southern Belle,
which has given me the opportunity to meet supporters across the
country whose love and support has been much appreciated. And of course
I’ve been spending lots of time with Ayden and Dylan; being a mother is always my first priority and a true labor of love.”
As for Nida’s legal issues, she wrote, “Words cannot express the turmoil
this situation has caused our family, and I can’t even begin to
articulate how hard it has been. When you face a situation like this,
you can choose to either break down or stay strong; I chose to stay
strong because I have two young children that need a parent to give them
stability and keep the ship sailing.”
“I’ve been criticized for not being at Apollo’s hearing, but the
truth is I had been there for him in so many ways for such a long time,”
she continued. “By the time all of this went down, it was apparent the
marriage was over and my focus needed to be exclusively on the wellbeing
of our children. I don’t think there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t
agree.”
She’s since filed for divorce, and Parks said the experience has taught her who her true allies are among her fellow housewives.
“NeNe and Porsha have been extremely supportive of me and very
attentive throughout this entire ordeal, and for that I am extremely
grateful,” she revealed. “Unfortunately, some of the others decided to
use my personal crisis as an opportunity to further their own interests
and talk to the media to get press for themselves. The lack of
compassion was, at times, shocking.”
Phaedra was wrong in my book. Apollo did some dastardly deeds and has no one to blame but himself for being locked up. But regardless of what problems are going on in the marriage, if you're still his wife you don't take the kids out the country and bail on your husband like that You're a man knowing you're about to be locked up for years in prison and there can't be a lonelier feeling then then looking behind you and not seeing your family there.
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