Porsha Williams broke her silence after submitting for divorce from husband Simon Guobadia following 15 months of marriage.
“Thanks on your prayers & assist. – PW,” the Actual Housewives of Atlanta star, 42, wrote through Instagram on Sunday, February 25. Porsha added a damaged coronary heart and prayer fingers emoji to her social media message.
Williams’ Instagram put up got here days after information broke on Friday, February 23, that she had filed for divorce from Guobadia. (Williams nonetheless has her married identify on her Instagram profile as of Monday, February 26.)
Guobadia, 59, addressed the cut up in a since-deleted Instagram Story put up.
“Will Cease Loving My Spouse When Divorce is Remaining,” he wrote, in accordance with a Bravo fan account who shared the put up on Sunday.
Individuals was first to report the information of Williams’ divorce submitting on Friday, with a supply telling the publication that the cut up had nothing to do with studies relating to Guobadia’s citizenship standing. (Guobadia was born in Nigeria.)
Days earlier than submitting for divorce, Williams referred to Guobadia as her “experience or die” in an Instagram put up. The video, posted on February 17, confirmed the estranged couple driving on a ship that gave the impression to be modeled after a yellow sports activities automobile.
Williams took her relationship with Guobadia public together with her engagement in Could 2021, revealing that that they had solely been collectively for one month. (Guobadia and ex-wife Falynn Guobadia introduced their divorce had been finalized one month prior.)
Simon Guobadia and Porsha Williams Paras Griffin/FilmMagic
“I do know it’s quick however we live life every day to its fullest. I select happiness each morning and each evening. Tuning out all detrimental power and solely targeted on constructive needs. He makes me so comfortable and to me, that’s what issues most,” Williams wrote on Instagram when sharing the engagement information. “For all of you that want details, I get the optics however Simon filed for divorce from a earlier marriage in January. I had nothing to do with their divorce submitting. That’s between the 2 of them.”
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Falynn appeared on RHOA in a “pal of” function throughout season 13, which pressured Williams to clarify her connection to the man Bravo star.
“Falynn and I should not associates, and Simon’s divorce has been settled,” she concluded. “Our relationship is a constructive, loving step ahead in all people’s lives.”
Williams and Guobadia in the end tied the knot in November 2022.
Weeks earlier than her divorce information, Williams introduced her plans to return to RHOA for the upcoming 16th season. She additionally signed an total scripted take care of NBCUniversal.
“I’m extremely grateful for the imaginative and prescient and religion NBCUniversal has put in me to be a bigger a part of their household,” Williams shared in a press release on February 13. “I’m wanting ahead to being again on ‘The Actual Housewives of Atlanta,’ and exhibiting the world my new world!”