*Apollo Nida’s fiancée, Sherien Almufti, made her dramatic debut during Sunday’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” and during a phone conversation from prison with co-stars Todd and Peter, Apollo called his new lady an “upgrade” from his ex-wife Phaedra Parks.
Sherien opened up to Us Weekly about their relationship because she wants you to know how they evolved. She claims she had “tremendous respect” for Apollo’s marriage prior to them officially hooking up.
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Almufti says that she and Apollo were strictly friends since 2013 and that they didn’t get romantic until he was headed off to prison for fraud.
via Us Weekly:
“I think the night we took him away [to prison] I felt something completely different,” she told Us. “Like, we’ve experienced something, you know. He cried on my shoulder. We held [each other] for a while. I just let him know — I told him as a friend — ‘I’m gonna be there for you.’ See, he was there for me, as well. … So I, in return as a friend first, before anything else, I told him I was gonna be there for him. Because I watched how a lot of people kind of just turned their backs on him.”
Almufti claims she was strictly Nida’s support system during the early days of his imprisonment, and that she never got romantic with her now fiancé prior to his split from Phaedra.
“I was married before and my husband cheated on me,” Almufti said. “And at the same time, I was actually dating someone. So I wasn’t like — it wasn’t that way. It was just more — it started out as a business situation.”
In the early stages of their romantic relationship, Almufti would visit Apollo in prison on weekends, and while they aren’t allowed to do anything more than kiss — she says they “tongue each other down” when they do. Last November, Nida asked Almufti to marry him.
“He just held my hand and he asked and I didn’t think he was serious and I was like, ‘What? This is not how I obviously imagined you asking me to marry you, but OK,’” she told Us. “But, yeah, it was unexpected. But he did promise me a different proposal — a different setting.”
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