Phaedra Defends Abandoning Apollo On Sentencing Day -- "The Marriage Was Already Over"

It was already over? That certainly seemed to be news to Apollo…

Phaedra Defends Her Decision To Skip Apollo’s Sentencing

As we all saw on last night’s episode of RHOA, Phaedra may have plucked Apollo fresh out of the prison system, but she is certainly not “ride or die.” Many fans were critical of Phaedra’s decision to stay at a hotel and not even contact her husband on his sentencing day, so she took to Bravo’s blog to explain things from her own perspective.

Via BravoTV:

Words cannot express the turmoil this situation has caused our family, and I can’t even begin to articulate how hard it has been. When you face a situation like this, you can choose to either break down or stay strong; I chose to stay strong because I have two young children that need a parent to give them stability and keep the ship sailing. I’ve been criticized for not being at Apollo’s hearing, but the truth is I had been there for him in so many ways for such a long time. By the time all of this went down, it was apparent the marriage was over and my focus needed to be exclusively on the wellbeing of our children. I don’t think there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t agree.

We guess that’s why she says Apollo’s declaration that he wanted out of their marriage came as no real shock:

I have been on such an emotional rollercoaster that there really isn’t anything that would have surprised me. After a while you reach a point where you are so numb that nothing fazes you anymore. And again, by that point my attention was exclusively on the children’s needs and doing everything I could to minimize the impact of this on their lives. My children’s health and happiness will always be center stage.

Well nobody would know better than Phaedra what was going on in her marriage. Do you think that the value of presenting a united front trumps all else in this situation, or was she right to cool out in a hotel room while Apollo faced the music alone?