Tamra Judgewould do anything to have a relationship with her estranged daughter,Sidney Barney— even if it meant quittingReal Housewives of Orange County.
On Tuesday night, the reality star, 52, joined Bravo hostAndy CohenonWatch What Happens Live,and revealed she would remove herself from the reality show if it meant she could repair her relationship with her daughter.
“If your daughter asked you to quit the show to have a relationship with her would you do it?” Cohen, 51, asked Judge on the show.
Without hesitation, she swiftly responded, “Yes. Yeah, absolutely.”
Judge and her oldest daughter have had a strained relationship ever since the reality starand Sidney’s father, Simon Barney, divorced in 2011. Though the former pair were legally granted equal custody of their three children (Spencer, 18, Sophia, 13, and Sidney, 20), upon their split, Judge relinquished custody of Sidney after she chose to live with Simon full-time.
Last year, the mother of four — who is also parent to Ryan Vieth, 33 — revealed that she would “text [Sidney] probably once a month” to “tell her I love her, my door’s always open to her, and I hope life’s treating you well.”
However, when asked if Sidney has ever responded to the sentimental texts, Judge said, “No.”
In 2017, their mother-daughter relationship appeared to be on the mend whenthe two reunited at Sidney’s high school graduation, but Judge caused another rift when she shared photos of the event on Instagram. AsSidney revealed in a lengthy Facebook post, when she agreed to let her mother join her at her graduation, she gave her a few conditions, which included not posting anything on social about the big day.
Tamra Judge, Sidney, Simon Barney.Simon Barney/Instagram
During the season 12RHOCreunion that same year,Judge called her decision to post the photo“stupid,” adding that she only did it after Simon had posted pictures from the graduation that didn’t include her — a move that caused tabloids to report that Judge wasn’t invited.
“I was just so hurt, I was so hurt,” she said at the time. “There were so many horrible stories that were coming out, and I was impulsive.”
“I lived the past three-and-a-half years in what I call silent pain,” Judge said in her speech. “People tell you all the time, ‘Don’t worry. She’ll be back. She’ll figure it out.’ Every time someone tells me that I want to punch them in the throat and say, ‘Don’t worry. It won’t hurt long.’ And then I gotta punch them again.”
“I do believe that my daughter will be back one day, just like I believe your children will all be back one day,” she continued. “Love your children more than you hate your ex. Kids deserve to have both parents in their life.”
Tamra Judge/Instagram. Inset: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
While her relationship with Sidney may be strained, the mother remains connected to her other three children — including youngest daughter Sophia,who recently expressed she wanted to join her mom on the Bravo reality series.
In April, Judge revealed that she and Sophia “begged” Simon to let the teenager appear on the show, but he refused.
“Breaks my heart that Sophia feels left out,” she wrote over a shared a text exchange with Sophia, in which the teen expressed disappointment in being excluded from a Bravo photo shoot ahead of season 14. “We’ve begged her dad.”
source: people.com
