It’s easy to imagine that Porsha Williams has had a glamorous life. After all, her time on The Real Housewives of Atlanta made her a major celeb and a household name. Along the way, she also secured more wealth and prestige than the average person can even dream of.
However, even seemingly glamorous celebs can have behind-the-scenes struggles. We know much about Williams’ own struggles thanks to her 2021 memoir The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power and Purpose. Williams treated writing the book as a therapeutic exercise, and that means her readers got to be like therapists, passively receiving all the juicy gossip about her life.
And trust us: gossip doesn’t get much juicier than this. If you want to go from one drama bomb to another, keep reading to learn more about the tragic truth of Porsha Williams!
Traumatic parental divorce
Porsha Williams never had an easy life. Arguably, this all started when her parents got divorced. While divorce is always most difficult on the children, Williams took it particularly hard.
As Bravo reports, she opened up about this in an episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. “It was just kind of confusing at first because I had my home with Mommy that felt complete, solid, and then over here with Dad, it was another home that could be complete and solid. And why am I going in between?”
Fortunately, things seemed to have smoothed over in recent years. Not only did Williams cheer her father remarrying (which meant she gained a half-sister), but she also took to Instagram to quickly and bluntly dispel any rumors about her father cheating on her mother.
