Apollo Nida Defends Spending Habits
Apollo Nida is defending himself against speculation about where he gets the money to spend thousands of dollars on adult entertainment.
Nida, attorney Phaedra Parks' husband on "Real Housewives of Atlanta," made headlines earlier this year for allegedly creating fake businesses, false bank accounts and using stolen checks while defrauding automotive lenders, according to Access Atlanta. After he announced that he spends thousands of dollars in adult clubs on his Bravo TV show, fans on Twitter began to speculate about his excessive spending has anything to do with the allegations brought against him.
However Nida insists that he makes his money legally.
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"Well, I make money from the (fitness) videos. One of my monthly checks from the videos is $32,000 in sales," Nida told Sister 2 Sister magazine. "I mean, we make money. I purchase properties. I flip them. I bought my last house at $12,500; I sold it for $46,500."
He went on to speak about his decision to spend money in places like adult clubs.
"So, it was a party and $8,000 was spent. But it doesn't matter if it's $5,000, if it's $8,000," he told the publication. "If that's your vice and if it's your money and that's what you want to do, cool.."
Nida went on to speak out against "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star NeNe Leakes speaking about his spending habits.
"For NeNe to sit there and say, 'You should've spent that $8,000 on your kids,' well, you should've spent that $15,000 for that Hermès bag on your kids. It's no difference," he told S2S Magazine. "It's what you wanted. It was your vice at that time. So I don't feel like that was taken out of context because everybody has something that they like to do."
Phaedra Parks, the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" personality, is maintaining that her marriage is still intact and that she is standing by her husband amid public legal issues.
"At the end of the day I am a southern belle, we are family and i will support him until this is resolved," she said on Bravo TV's late night show "Watch What Happens Live."
