“Actual Housewives of Atlanta” star Porsha Williams broke her silence after her estranged husband, Nigerian businessman Simon Guobadia, was arrested by ICE and detained in a federal facility.
Simon Guobadia faces virtually sure deportation
In line with U.S. Division of Homeland Safety information obtained by WSB-TV in Atlanta, ICE — Immigration and Customs Enforcement — picked up Guobadia on Feb. 21. He’s at present being held on the Stewart Detention Heart in Lumpkin, Ga., about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta close to the border with Alabama.
Guobadia’s impending elimination from the U.S. is a part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan after he declared a “nationwide emergency” on unlawful immigrants in January 2025.
Simon Guobadia had been attempting to turn out to be U.S. citizen since 1982
Shortly thereafter, Williams, 43, spoke to her 8 million Instagram followers about her husband whom she is divorcing. Guobadia had been attempting a number of occasions to acquire citizenship within the U.S. since 1982 however has been repeatedly denied and was declared deportable in 1985. Guobadia returned a 12 months later, and in 1987, Guobadia was reportedly arrested and later pled responsible to financial institution and bank card fraud. He was then deported to Nigeria in 1992 after two extra arrests. However he returned once more and in 2016 utilized for naturalization however was declined as soon as extra.
Williams referenced this in her IG publish.
“It’s disheartening to see my estranged husband make selections which have led to this consequence. At this second my precedence is shifting ahead with my household. 🙏🏾,” she penned.
Porsha Williams and Simon Guobadia met in 2020
Willliams and Guobadia, 60, reportedly met on the Nigerian’s now-defunct restaurant in Atlanta in 2020 whereas she was filming Season 13 of RHOA. On the time, he was married to an official “pal of the present,” Falynn Pina, in accordance with Essence.
Guobadia then started reportedly secretly courting Willliams through the apex of the coronavirus pandemic in April 2021 after Guobadia divorced Pina earlier that very same 12 months.
In Might of 2021, the couple introduced their engagement and have been married in a two-day ceremony in November 2022. Nevertheless, in February 2024, Williams introduced that their 15-month marriage was coming to a detailed as she filed for divorce from Guobadia.
In November, court docket paperwork obtained by Individuals then confirmed that Williams had been granted sole possession of their marital residence on a brief foundation. Moreover, the court docket dominated that she would have an “unrestricted proper to movie and produce tv, movie or social media” on the dwelling in suburban Atlanta.
When Individuals caught up with Williams, she proclaimed that “God is nice” concerning the court docket’s ruling.
“You already know, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, has by no means let me down. And on the finish of the day, , persons are gonna take their pictures, persons are gonna attempt to communicate in your future and what it’s nevertheless it’s already written, child,” she continued. “You may’t mess that up. It’s what it’s.”