RHOA's Phaedra Park's Marriage And Divorce From Apollo Nida

Phaedra Parks has appeared on several Bravo reality TV shows, including The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Married To Medicine. In the former, audiences watched the lawyer-turned-mortician and her relationship with Apollo Nida reach some major milestones, including its ultimate end.

Phaedra joined RHOA in 2010 when she was pregnant with her first child, Ayden. By the end of the season, Phaedra and Apollo were parents, but gossip about the pregnancy and disagreements over childrearing added to the stress of motherhood for Phaedra.

Phaedra and Apollo's relationship continued until 2014 when the RHOA cast member filed for divorce. By then, the couple had two children—Ayden and Dylan—but that was the same year Apollo was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for identity theft and fraud. Their divorce wasn't finalized until 2017 and, since then, both Phaedra and Apollo have moved forward while co-parenting their children. Here's a look back at their relationship.

Phaedra Parks And Apollo Nida Had An On-And-Off Relationship For A Decade Before Getting Married

In 2019, Phaedra Parks talked about her relationship with her ex-husband, Apollo Nida. Their history traced back to 1995 when she saw him on an Atlanta highway. He flagged her down and then followed her home. By the time he walked her to her door that day, Apollo announced to Phaedra that he wanted her to be his girlfriend. According to Phaedra,

"That's how we got together... Apollo was extremely nice, always very generous, just a really good guy."

They entered a relationship, but it was one with numerous ups and downs. Apollo was sent to prison during the early 2000s and, after he was released, Phaedra,

"Thought he was changed, I honestly did, he seemed like he had matured a lot. He was very focused on settling down and having a family, he was still very much in love with me and I thought he was still cute. I just knew we always had a true connection and had known each other for over a decade. I knew his family, he knew my entire family, and we had been around each other."

Phaedra And Apollo Got Married In 2009, Just Months After He Was Paroled

Apollo Nida and Phaedra Parks tied the knot in November 2009. Apollo had been released from prison in May and Phaedra later said their wedding in 2009 was a "great time" for the couple.

In August 2009, however, Apollo and several associates became involved in a "four-year scheme involving bank, mail and wire fraud and ID theft of more than 50 individuals to the tune of an estimated $2 million." According to U.S. Department of Justice website, Apollo was confronted in 2013 and, in May 2014, he pleaded guilty to the charges against him. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in July 2014.

For Phaedra, this is what prompted her to file for divorce:

"From the moment I discovered that he had done all this stuff, I was finished with that relationship."

Divorce didn't just involve Phaedra and Apollo. Their first child, Ayden, was born in May 2010, and their second son, Dylan, was born in 2013, about a year before she filed for divorce. At the time, Phaedra's publicist stated that she was "putting all of her energy into ensuring the well-being of her two children and making decisions that are in their best interests."

Phaedra And Apollo Co-Parent Their Two Children And Are On Good Terms

Phaedra didn't offer much information about her divorce to RHOA fans as it was ongoing because she didn't want "to negatively speak about Apollo." Additionally,

"None of [her castmates] had been supportive throughout the process... So I knew their questions weren’t coming from a place of support—it was from a place of being nosy, wanting to know what was going on with my marriage and the divorce."

The divorce between Phaedra and Apollo was finalized in 2017, but it was overturned when Apollo appealed it. As of June 2022, Phaedra and Apollo were on better terms and were getting "along very well." Phaedra continued,

"We have a good relationship. We co-parent very well."

Since their split, Apollo has remarried and Phaedra has entered into a relationship of her own.