Kandi’s Wedding: More Mama Joyce Drama! Kandi Burruss’ Dad Titus Claims Mama Joyce Kept Him From Seeing Kandi Grow Up With Restraining Order

June 9 2014, Published 8:49 a.m. ET
While Kandi Burruss was planning the mother of all Bravo weddings, an elaborate Coming to America-themed ceremony, her own Mama Joyce, as usual, was at the center of the drama.
And Sunday night’s second episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta spinoff, Kandi’s Wedding showed that Burruss’ fiancé, Todd Tucker, wasn’t the only man her Mama Joyce had a problem with!
In fact, she’d had a bitter divorce from Burruss’ father, Pastor Titus Burruss, whom she accused of cheating.
Emotions spilled over during Kandi’s lunch with her dad.
Burruss had decided that Mama Joyce would walk her down the aisle, while Titus would be the officiant.
The reality TV star recalled her parents got divorced when she was four and “sometimes I didn’t see him for a year or so.
“Now my dad makes an effort to try to mend the relationship.”
Titus claimed that the start of his marriage to Mama Joyce was “beautiful” until her meddling sisters, Kandi’s aunts Nora and Bertha, started interfering and “smoking and drinking and all this stuff in our home.”
But Burruss sighed, “She says you cheated, dad.”
Titus replied, “That was a lie.”
Instead, he charged that Mama Joyce’s sisters had changed the locks on his house!
Burruss, 38, cried to her dad about how he didn’t spend time with her when she was young, but Titus explained, “I had a restraining order put on me so I that couldn’t come around.”
The singer concluded they couldn’t change the past, and asked Titus to officiate at her wedding — an offer he eagerly accepted.
Incredibly, he also predicted Mama Joyce would come around to Burruss marrying Tucker: “I think all the love will overwhelm her,” he laughed.
Later, Burruss had a heart-to-heart with Tucker and she admitted Mama Joyce had called his dad a pimp!
“I didn’t really know my dad. He passed when