“Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Drew Sidora was delivered a painful blow in her divorce from ex Ralph Pittman.
A judge ordered the reality star to vacate her and Pittman’s marital home. She also temporarily lost primary custody of the couple’s shared children — son Machai, born in June 2015, and daughter Aniya, whom they welcomed in February 2018 — according to an amended temporary order obtained by TMZ.
The actress also has an older son, Josiah, 11, from a previous relationship.
Sidora has a deadline of May 31 to officially leave the home, but due to the “current financial circumstances of the parties,” she and Pittman will continue to split the expenses for the home until she leaves.
The parents will continue to share legal custody of the two children. Though, Pittman — who has been living in the property’s basement throughout their tumultuous divorce — was given primary physical custody of the kids during the school year.
Sidora will see her kids on an alternating weekend schedule starting in August. The judge reportedly rendered their decision on Sidora and Pittman’s child custody arrangement after claims were made that their kids had excessive absences from school while in Sidora’s custody.
Pittman is now allowed to move freely throughout the house to get the children ready for school in the mornings.
In response to the ruling, Sidora’s rep told the outlet in a statement: “This matter is still being actively litigated, and is in the middle of the final trial. The Second Temporary Order is, in fact, temporary, and does not reflect the final outcome of the case.”
Pittman declined to share a comment with the outlet.
Page Six has reached out to both Sidora and Pittman, but did not receive immediate responses.
Sidora filed for divorce in March 2023 after nearly nine years of marriage. The exes both claimed their marriage was “irretrievably broken” in their separate filings, which arrived just minutes apart from each other.
Months later, the Bravolebrity confessed that she knew her marriage was over when their romantic problems “started to happen on camera.”
At the time, she told People that the split was the result of a “culmination of things that should not happen in a marriage.”
“I think the inability to own it, the inability to apologize, the inability to work through it, the inability to care about my emotional state and wanting to work and heal that, was very challenging,” Sidora explained.
The “Step Up” star finally reached her “boiling point” when their issues were later shared with an audience thanks to the Bravo reality series, which made her feel “embarrassment on top of what we were dealing with behind closed doors.”
