By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed August 28, 2015
Alpharetta resident and Bravo's "Married to Medicine" recurrent guest star Jill Connors was recently arrested after a domestic violence incidence stemming from an alleged argument over cheating, according to TMZ.
TMZ procured the police report and it was not a pretty picture.
Connors' husband John allegedly found text messages from another man on her phone and confronted her. When he said he would take their kids, she got angry and began hitting him.
She then grabbed a knife and started cutting herself. She later claimed he attacked her but the police didn't believe her. She was arrested for domestic violence and cruelty to children since they were watching.
TMZ said she filed for divorce August 19.
During an interview earlier this summer, Connors told me doing the reality show stressed out their marriage.
"It was hard on my relationship with my husband," she said. "We've been best friends and business partners for the last 15 years. We had our 13th anniversary in May. There have been some hard times because of the show, because it was something different in our lives."
She said her husband, a plastic surgeon, likes routine and found all the filming she was doing disruptive to their lives. She said he clearly did not like being on camera.
Connors is a New Jersey native who graduated Dartmouth College. She received her law degree at the University of Pennsylvania, she said.
She met John on a plane her senior year at Dartmouth. They married a few years later.
They lived in Boston for several years before coming to Atlanta around 2007.
John was part of a group practice but opened his own in 2011, she said. She helped out with the business including hiring, marketing and management.
They have three sons ages 7, 9 and 11.
She appeared for the first time in the third episode of "Married to Medicine" and has been in the mix ever since.
Her connection to "Married to Medicine:" she was already friends with existing cast member Toya Bush-Harris.
She has effectively been the token white girl in the group, the first one since season one regular Kari Wells. "I've always had a diverse group of friends," she said.
Connors said "Married to Medicine" producers approached her. "The hardest part was getting my husband on board," she said. "It took a couple of months and a lot of convincing him that it's okay to have people view our lives."
She said, "I have a hard time filtering myself. I think that's the Jersey component in me."
For years, she was raising her boys and helping her husband build his practice. She thought this show "was for me to do something, to get to know a different group of girls, have fun, enjoy fashion and style and hair and makeup and have a good time."
Her Twitter and Instagram pages have been taken down since the news came out.
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