Phaedra Parks Admits 'Marriage Is Tough'
Phaedra Parks, an Atlanta attorney and cast member of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," recently spoke about her views on marriage after fans began to witness tensions in her marriage with Apollo Nida after season six of her show.
After the new season of her reality television series began earlier this month, fans began to see the playful couple that is Parks and Nida begin to bicker on screen. While tensions rose when Parks' fellow cast mate and former beauty queen Kenya Moore began to text message her husband, the former has insisted that she has a strong foundation with the father of her two sons.
Still, Parks readily admits that marriage is not easy.
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"Marriage is tough," she told S2S magazine recently. "The more time you can spend with your spouse-definitely quality time-it sorta makes it a lot better and hopefully it creates more intimacy in the relationship."
Parks previously defended her marriage after it came under scrutiny at the end of season five on her show.
"I have a strong marriage," Parks told In Touch Weekly earlier this year. "It's not like Kenya revealed something I didn't know. There are no secrets."
However, Moore insisted that Nida initiated the text messages while clarifying that they were not inappropriate as she previously suggested on the show.
"There was never any inappropriate text message between Apollo and myself," she said on the Bethenny talk show recently. "It was friendly, but he initiated the texts every time."
Moore detailed the content of her and Nida's text messages earlier this year.
"Apollo and I had initially communicated via group text and emails when collaborating on the workout video," Moore revealed on the Bravo TV blog. "We were amiable to one another even after the deal fell through and remained cordial. Despite his desperate outburst, neither of us acted inappropriately."
Still, Moore said she was shocked when Nida made accusations about her acting inappropriately toward him on the reunion show.
"It was just as shocking for me to hear him make accusations that I, in effect, propositioned him. So shocking that I had to laugh at just how contrived and rehearsed it was," Moore wrote. "Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I'm certain Apollo was coached by Phaedra. Hence why I showed my phone with all the texts to Andy to prove my innocence and offered to pass it around for full and transparent disclosure."
