Phaedra Parks Focusing on Work After Husband Apollo Nida's 8-Year Jail Sentence
Phaedra Parks is reportedly doing well after learning that her husband Apollo Nida was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday.
Parks, the 42-year-old "Real Housewives of Atlanta" attorney, has supported Nida publicly, while admitting to marital issues on and off the show. Now that Nida has received an eight-year prison sentence for allegedly creating fake businesses, false bank accounts and using stolen checks while defrauding automotive lenders, she is reportedly keeping busy.
However her singer and producer friend Kandi Burruss, who also stars on the Bravo television series, insists that Parks is doing fine.
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"Phaedra's doing great. She's basically working," Burruss told HollywoodLife.com. "That's how I deal with things too; when I have a lot going on, I just put more into work."
Burrus added, "I know that she's promoting her book and doing the book tour and stuff like that and she's not really trying to focus as much on what's happening."
However, a source reportedly told the publication that Parks is not happy with her husband's situation.
"(She) wants nothing but the best of the best for herself and children, and the fact her husband is about to go away for a long time, leaves a bad taste in her mouth," a source reportedly told Hollywood Life. "She's embarrassed but knowing her, she'll be all right."
Nida previously appeared on Atlanta radio station V103 where he spoke about Parks waiting for him while he is in prison.
"I think Phaedra, in a perfect world, should be supportive as a wife should be … But if she chooses to derail from the plan, then that's what she chooses to do," he said on the radio station last May. "Whatever's been thrown at me, I deal with it. I would like to say I would want her to stay around and do what a wife should do. But tomorrow's not promised."
Parks, the lawyer who moonlights as a mortician and author, previously maintained 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 previously said on Bravo TV's late night show "Watch What Happens Live."
However, it seems Parks was absent from Nida's sentencing when his lawyer publicly thanked his mother and brother for support.
"Apollo is elated that this proceeding is past him and is no longer handing over his head. It meant everything to him that his mother and brother spoke on his behalf," Apollo's lawyer Thomas D. Bever told People magazine. "He's OK, and will get through this."
