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Drew Sidora, known for her role on “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” faced a significant setback in her divorce proceedings with ex-husband Ralph Pittman.
A judge has ruled that Sidora must leave the couple’s marital residence. Additionally, she has temporarily lost primary custody of their two children—son Machai, born in June 2015, and daughter Aniya, born in February 2018. This decision comes from an amended temporary court order obtained by TMZ.
Sidora is also a mother to Josiah, her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship.
The court has set a deadline of May 31 for Sidora to vacate the home. Despite this, due to their “current financial circumstances,” she and Pittman are required to continue sharing the home’s expenses until her departure.
While both parents will maintain joint legal custody, Pittman, who has been residing in the basement of the home during their contentious divorce, has been awarded primary physical custody of their children 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.”