Months after his marriage to Kandi Burruss was officially dissolved, Todd Tucker is no longer pretending the split has been easy.
Appearing on V103’s Big Tigger Morning Show, the producer and former Real Housewives of Atlanta fixture dropped the polished public-facing version of post-divorce life and admitted he is still struggling. “I’m f*ed up,” he said. “You mask it with hanging out, drinking, and all of the st, you know. But I’m working through it.”
Todd Tucker Speaks Out on Divorce From Kandi Burruss
He added that the outward image does not match the private reality. “It looks good,” Tucker said of how the split can appear from the outside. “You gotta save face.” Then he spelled out what changed: “I went from being at home with my family every day. The dog, the kids, the nanny, the wife, and now I’m by myself, pretty much.”
“I don’t think people understand divorce,” he continued. “I lost my person. I still lost my person, and I lost my family as I knew it.” Seeing Ace and Blaze on an every-other-week schedule after years of a full house, he said, has been one of the hardest adjustments.
Tucker and Burruss met while filming Season 4 of RHOA in 2011, got engaged in 2013, and married in April 2014. They share son Ace and daughter Blaze. Burruss is also mom to Riley from a previous relationship; Tucker has daughter Kaela from a previous relationship. Burruss filed for divorce in November 2025 after 11 years of marriage, saying a specific incident that July convinced her she could not continue. The case included a contested custody fight before the pair reached a settlement in March 2026. They now share joint legal and physical custody. Burruss paid Tucker a lump-sum property equalization of roughly $426,000; neither side receives ongoing child or spousal support.
Asked why the marriage ended, Tucker declined to assign a single cause. “I think there was a lot that happened. We could say, ‘Well, this is why,’ but it was a journey,” he said. “It’s not really about, you know, her part of it is her business.” He described his upcoming project ’Til Divorce Do Us Part as a way to process the emotions rather than a tell-all.
The most striking moment in the interview involved Riley. Tucker said they spoke at a party Kaela hosted at his New Jersey home. Riley told him, “Go get my mom back.” “It was one of those moments where you can’t even get the words out,” he recalled.
Riley has separately described the year as one of adaptation. “A divorce happens between two people, but it affects more than just those two people,” she has said. “It’s tough at times, it’s easy at times, it’s confusing. I’m still learning.” She has also said Tucker still supports her, even as the family dynamic is “not the same.”
Burruss has been consistent that reconciliation is not on the table. Promoting her one-woman show I Do. I Did. I’m Done., she previously shut down jokes that she might not be finished and said she is keeping the Burruss-Tucker hyphenate for the children. The former couple have still shown up together for the kids, including a Bahamas vacation months after the divorce was finalized.
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Tucker’s comments land in a familiar place for public divorces: two people who once built a life together, now navigating separate houses, shared children, and very different public narratives about what the marriage was and why it ended. He is not claiming the story is simple. He is saying the loss is real, the nights are quieter than they used to be, and the work of getting through it is still underway.