REAL Housewives of Atlanta star Sheree Whitfield’s boyfriend Tyrone Gilliams has been released from a Philadelphia halfway house after serving eight years in prison, The Celeb Report can exclusively reveal.
Sheree, 52, has been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Tyrone, 55, for years.
Tyrone was sentenced to 10 years in prison on wire fraud charges after stealing $5million from investors.
He was released early from a federal prison in Kentucky in February 2021 over Covid concerns and lived in a halfway house in Philadelphia, where he reunited with and spent time with Sheree.
The Bureau of Prisons exclusively confirmed to The Celeb Report that Tyrone was released on January 13, 2022 from a facility overseen by the Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management Office.
According to BOP, the facilities, also known as halfway houses, provide a “safe, structured, supervised environment, as well as employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance, and other programs and services” to “help inmates gradually rebuild their ties to the community and facilitate supervising ex-offenders’ activities during this readjustment phase.”
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TMZ reported at the time of his release from the Kentucky prison that he reunited with Sheree in Philadelphia, as she also helped him acclimate to normal life.
ON-AGAIN, OFF-AGAIN ROMANCE
Sheree and Tyrone split at the time of his arrest, as they reconciled and began dating again in 2016 while he was incarcerated.
The couple split again when he lost his appeal, but they rekindled their relationship when he was eventually released.
Sheree told Page Six of their love behind bars: “The positives of dating an incarcerated man, for me is, I really feel like I got to know him on a deeper level. A lot of times relationships are built on physical and a lot of times they don’t work.
“People don’t take the time to get to know each other, or communicate, or talk. We do all of that. We don’t have anything else to do but communicate.”
REAL DRAMA
Sheree has also been open about the romance on RHOA.
In November 2021, Tyrone and Sheree were no longer on speaking terms because she bought Bravo cameras to film a scene with him at a restaurant.
The footage could’ve sent Tyrone back behind bars, as he was on home confinement at the time.
Then, TMZ obtained a cease and desist order sent by Tyrone to Bravo, where he claimed the network used his image and likeness without his permission.
‘BLOCKED!’
Despite the cease and desist, he appeared over FaceTime talking to Sheree on a trailer for the upcoming season of RHOA.
She even sat down with former co-star Phaedra Parks’ ex-husband Apollo Nida, who served eight years behind bars for conspiracy to commit mail, wire and bank fraud.
He told Sheree: “When the guys come home they just s**t all over their women.”
A separate scene showed Sheree at a restaurant alone as she told her co-star: “He hasn’t shown up yet. What does it mean when you call someone, it rings and then it goes busy?”
She responded: “You’re blocked.”
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Sheree was then seen crying in the next scene.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta premieres Sunday at 8pm on Bravo.
