Tamra Judge is opening up about where things stand with her son Ryan Vieth after their “really toxic” falling out.

The Real Housewives of Orange County star reconnected with Ryan earlier this year after the two went nearly a year without speaking. Now, Tamra says their relationship is in a much better place.

“We’re great!” Tamra revealed on The Real Housewives of Orange County After Show. “He calls me every single day.”

Tamra and Ryan first reconnected off-camera over Easter 2026. Shortly after, viewers saw the mother-son duo come together again on RHOC to celebrate Ryan’s daughter Ava’s 11th birthday at Tamra’s home.

According to Tamra, the original fallout started after she called Ryan out for liking and posting what she described as “hate rhetoric” on social media.

“I said that I did not align with the things he was saying, I don’t agree with it, and I think you need to stop,” Tamra recalled.

Tamra said Ryan got upset and the argument quickly turned into something bigger.

“And then he got mad and he left,” she said. “And then it turned into, ‘Well, you’re not a good grandma and you’re not there for Ava all the time.’”

Tamra explained that she pushed back because her life as a grandmother looks different from what Ryan may have experienced growing up.

“I’m like, ‘I work,’” Tamra said. “I’m not the grandmother that my mom was to you, because she was a stay-at-home mom and she took care of you when I wasn’t there.”

Tamra said she wishes she could be more available, but right now she is still working and planning for the future.

“And I get that and I wish that it could be like that,” she continued. “But right now, I’m working towards, not only my future retirement, but also for you kids.”

Tamra joked that she may not be the grandmother who is always available to babysit, but she shows up in her own way.

“There will be a day where I’m gonna slow down, but right now is not it,” Tamra said. “I’m the grandma that’s gonna buy you a Gucci bag.”

During RHOC’s September 24 episode, Tamra reflected on the long road back to Ryan.

“It took almost a year, and then he finally realized, like, ‘You know what, Mom’s right,’” Tamra said. “Now, he’s in a much better place in his life, and I couldn’t be happier.”

Tamra also admitted the fight was painful, but she believes it led to something positive.

“It was not a good fight,” she said on the After Show. “But at the end of the day, I won.”

According to Tamra, Ryan has even encouraged his siblings to listen to her advice.

“Even on Mother’s Day, he told the other kids, like, ‘You know, Mom might give you s–t about stuff and Mom might say things that you shouldn’t believe in and trust. And at the end of the day, she’s usually right,’” Tamra shared. “So, there you have it.”

Tamra also opened up about her relationship with her granddaughter Ava, whom she called her “mini me.”

While Tamra loves Ava, she explained that she is not in a place where she can be a full-time, hands-on grandmother every day.

“I’m working all the time,” Tamra said. “When I have time, yes, I will be with Ava. And I have her phone number, and I will text her, and we will talk and things like that.”

But Tamra said she is not able to have her grandchildren over all day long at this stage of her life.

“I also have been raising kids for 40 years,” she said. “And it’s kind of like, you know what, I don’t want to raise anybody else’s kids at this point unless I have to.”

She added, “And they’re doing a great job, so we’ll leave it at that.”

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Todd Tucker is getting candid about the emotional toll of his divorce from Kandi Burruss.

In a new interview with Page Six, Todd opened up about the painful and lonely moments he experienced after separating from the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star, admitting that the end of their marriage left him questioning everything.

“I’m gonna be honest, when we separated, I stayed in the guesthouse, which is just me in this big house by myself,” Todd shared. “My kids and the family are next door, and it was a lot of alone time.”

Todd said that isolation took him to a very dark place.

“It was a lot of time in my head, thinking, trying to figure out, ‘What did I just do? What just happened? Did I lose my family?’” he said. “So I’m gonna be honest, I had nobody really to lean on.”

Todd also addressed a heartbreaking moment from his upcoming docuseries, Til Divorce Do Us Part, where he admitted he “looked at [his] gun” during one of his lowest points.

“But then I snapped out of it, like, ‘No, you have a family. You have kids that you have to see them through,’” Todd recalled.

Todd and Kandi share two children together, Ace, 10, and Blaze, 6. Todd is also dad to Kaela Tucker, 30, while Kandi is mom to Riley Burruss, 24, from previous relationships.

Since those painful moments, Todd says he has been trying to rebuild himself.

“It was a lot of dark times, but since then, I’ve been going to church, I’m about to find me a therapist and just take this journey of rebuilding myself, getting myself where I wanna be and being the best dad and the best co-parent and moving forward,” Todd said.

Todd’s new docuseries will show him having emotional conversations with other men, including familiar faces from RHOA. He said creating the project was not easy, but he felt it was important to finally speak.

“I think we men carry a lot of stress, we carry a lot inside, and sometimes, it’s too late,” Todd explained. “So I want guys to know, man, just get it out, speak to a therapist, however you got to get it out. Don’t try to bash anybody, don’t try and make anybody look bad, but just get it off your chest.”

Todd also said he feels he has the right to tell his side after being discussed publicly for years.

“I’ve been labeled everything in the book for over a decade on Housewives. And I’ve never really spoken, and I just wanna be heard,” he said. “And after that, I’ll go fade into the darkness, and you won’t hear nothing again.”

Todd also addressed the backlash he received after the trailer for his docuseries included a conversation about his and Kandi’s past sex life.

In the trailer, Peter Thomas asked Todd, “Is the threesome s–t for real for real?” Todd responded, “We did, we did. I would say [for] most of our marriage, we did.”

Kandi later slammed Todd for “choosing to sensationalize [their] sex life to stretch his five minutes of fame,” adding that “what consensually happens between a husband and wife in the privacy of their marriage is exactly that: private.”

Todd pushed back on that, arguing that Kandi had previously spoken publicly about their sex life on RHOA and through other projects.

“I gotta ask you a question: Do we have a private marital sex life?” Todd said. “You’ve heard it from her. So how private is it?”

Todd claimed he was not revealing anything new.

“So at the end of the day, I’m not throwing out there any new information,” he insisted. “I’m not out there doing a tell-all or naming any people or doing anything like that. It was just a conversation, and that’s really all it was.”

Todd also hinted that there was one specific “incident” involving another woman that contributed to the end of the marriage, which he says he will explain more in the docuseries.

According to Todd, friends encouraged him to buy Kandi flowers, but he felt their problems were much bigger than that.

“A lot of our friends were like, ‘Buy her flowers, buy her flowers.’ But I was like, ‘Hey, this is bigger than flowers,’” Todd said. “So I set up for us to go to therapy ’cause this was beyond buying flowers.”

Todd said he felt Kandi wanted him to address the immediate hurt before working on the deeper issues in the relationship.

“I just think when I saw she wasn’t willing to fight with me, I just thought that it’s probably best for me to just kind of bow out,” he said. “If she wants a divorce, give her the divorce.”

Still, Todd made it clear that walking away was not what he originally wanted.

“I made vows to be with her forever, and I would have stayed forever,” he said.

Todd said he accepts that sometimes relationships do not last forever, but added that he and Kandi continue to prioritize their children.

“We’re always fine with each other. There’s never any tension or anything,” Todd said. “Even though we may be pissed off or mad or feeling a way, we put it to the side for our kids.”

While Todd does not fully blame reality TV for the end of his marriage, he admits it “played a part.”

Now, Todd says he is focused on healing, fatherhood, co-parenting and finally sharing the side of the story he feels fans never got to hear.