RHOA’s Sheree Whitfield’s boyfriend Tyrone Gilliams released from Philadelphia halfway house after 8-year prison stint

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 Sun 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 Sun 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.”

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 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.