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Atlanta real housewives star Porsha Williams‘ex Simon Guobadia cut his silence just to Weekly US Days after being released from ice custody – and detailing the four -month “nightmare” he spent keeping him as well as his future plans.
Guobadia, who was deported to Nigeria Over the weekend he explained that he spent time abroad in the middle of his divorce. He took a flight back home to America to attend a hearing in the case.
He said he was “met at the entrance” of the gate, and that “about seven frost agents” came aboard the plane to escort.
Guobadia, 61, said he was asked “a bunch of questions about my business and where I was traveling from, and then they asked me to turn my devices over.”
He said they had taken his laptop and two phones, one of which was dedicated to a business in Dubai and the other for work in the United States.
“So I had everything on me, literally a mobile office. (They) took those from me and (i) gave them pass codes so that they could do their forensic investigation, (if) you do. After that, they basically came and told me that I was kept and would take me, and I will see a judge at some point. Us.
Self of Simon Guobadia taken on June 9, 2025
Simon GuobadiaGuobadia said he had no idea that he was going to be taken into custody that day. Noted that it all occurred “a day or two before première season 16” of The Atlanta real housewives.
The whole thing was strange as his immigration issues were well known. Guobadia said he had never had any issues traveling.
When asked if he felt he was targeted, Guobadia said Us.
He continued, “And the second was that I expected I was in a controversial divorce, and not just one person I deal with. I deal with those behind it, the powers behind it that would obviously like to see it and ensure that the investment in this person comes to fry. So I was not completely forgotten to some possibility.”
Guobadia said he did not know but felt it was possible that Williams, 43, or someone who was associated with her had called ice. “It’s possible. I don’t know. I don’t have all the facts,” he said. (A source with knowledge of the situation says Us“There is no truth to this theory that Porsha and Simon arrested. It was an Internet Feme.”)
After being questioned at the airport, Guobadia said he Shipment to facility. He was told he would eventually see a judge but he could not get a bond.
Simon Guobadia and Porsha Williams
Derek White/Getty images“That’s when my shock realization kicked in that, ‘Oh my God, what’s about to happen?’ I was transported to a detention center I don’t remember the name right now, to be loved overnight and I went through that experience (o) pulled my regular street clothes away and had to wear prison clothes Us.
Guobadia once choked, saying Us“I’m sorry. There are a lot of things I’ve bottled for a while. So this interview is the first time I really talked about the experience.”
Eventually he was transported – with his hands and feet in cuffs – to the Stewart detention centerwhere he waited until his recent release.
Guobadia said he slept for two days after he arrived. He said that his friends and family were able to visit him shortly afterwards. He managed to spend an hour with them.
“That was the first time (they visited me). It was very emotional for me because before that before, I didn’t have a phone call. I didn’t get a chance to call it. I didn’t have my phone book. I guess the kindness, or I don’t know what it was, but the officer let me use this phone and I could go through to the manager of my house and in turn).
He added, “But the way this thing is designed is not so that you have been arrested and you are having time immediately to call. It could take a while, and sometimes it could take days before you can get to your family.”
A few days after he arrived. Guobadia said he had been drawn aside and said he was being put into defensive custody because he was famous.
“They said, ‘Well, there are people who recognize you are famous,’ and they want to take precautions. And so they took me into defensive custody. I was drawn to an area called isolated,” said Guobadia Us.
Guobadia said he was placed in an area with dangerous people but given his own cell. He said he had the option to be with the general population, but decided to assess the situation. In segregation, Guobadia said he was locked in a cell for 23 hours a day. Would have an hour outside. If the weather was bad, he said he spent the whole day inside the cell.
“I understood why people would kill themselves, but I’m too strong to do it. But I understand why people are, when you are (in) give a certain mental head space, you start to understand why people do what they do,” he said Us.
Ultimately, Guobadia said he had convinced a guard to leave him back to the general population. Guobadia said Us That the population was mainly Hispanic men “who looked like they were raised from work sites or their jobs.”
He said the facility was “generally clean.”
Porsha Williams and Simon Guobadia
Prince Williams/WirimageHowever, he noted, “Some of the obvious things I saw were … the staff were poorly trained, they had little staffing. There was overcrowding, there were people being kept, individuals who were sleeping in beds temporarily.”
He continued, “Those facilities were built to house… about 200 people (per unit), and each cell would be home to two people, top and bottom bunk.” He said the facility had far more people than it was built to catch.
Guobadia also described the “terrible” food at the facility.
“Breakfast is typical cereal and milk. I never had coffee. I never had tea. There was no purified water, no bottled water … none of that,” he explained.
When separate, he said, “There’s a panel (in my door) to open and serve the food, and sometimes they come back and take the (empty trays). Sometimes they wait until the end of the day while I stack three in a day with empty trays and then get it back to them.”
The dinner included “a burger made to believe” that it wasn’t real meat and “lots of beans.”
He said, “Every meal came with beans.” Guobadia said they had tacos and rice, and spaghetti for lunch, but not much variation.
“The food was bad,” he added. “There was nothing; he had no nutritional value.”
Porsha Williams and Simon Guobadia
Griffin Paras/Getty ImagesIn the general population, Guobadia said he made a few friends. He often watched the news on TV in the main waiting room.
He said that the other prisoners played ball -basket, volleyball, and ball -footed when permitted outside. He said the cell doors were open for people to wander around during the day but there were guards around and rules to follow.
Guobadia said the whole experience was a “nightmare,” but it also “made me realize that I was a pretty hard cook.”
While in custody, he finished with flu and had to be housed in a clinic for days.
Guobadia said he received no updates on his case while inside. He said the running joke inside was that ice agents were “never true” when prisoners asked when they were leaving.
He told him that he was told only two weeks before being deported. When it was time for him to leave, he was put into a holding cell with others and did not give food for 18 hours.
Looking ahead, Guobadia has plans to go to Dubai, where he has lived before, and is in the process of reuniting with his children.