Tamra Judge Shares Teen Daughter’s Texts From School Lockdown


Tamra Decide
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A involved mom. Tamra Decide shared an emotional video after her daughter Sophia’s faculty went into lockdown due to a potential shooter.

The Actual Housewives of Orange County star, 55, posted screenshots of the 17-year-old’s texts through her Instagram Story on Thursday, April 13. “We’re having a shelter in place not a drill,” the teenager wrote. “We’re being locked within the lessons with the lights off. … I’m in a classroom. We’re hiding proper now. Simply heard police sirens.”

The Bravo character described the message as “the textual content no mother or father desires to get” earlier than sharing an emotional video concerning the scenario. “You get the textual content, and also you’re so helpless,” Decide mentioned whereas holding again tears. “There’s nothing you are able to do on this f–king world. I’m so sick of it. I’m so sick of what’s occurring. My daughter now doesn’t need to return to high school. It’s her senior 12 months. This has bought to cease. It’s bought to cease.”

The California native famous that everybody on the faculty is protected, however the college students and academics probably gained’t neglect what occurred for a very long time. “They caught the man,” Decide mentioned. “The youngsters are traumatized, the academics are traumatized.”

Decide went on to say that the scholars had been “laying on the ground” in concern after blocking the classroom door with bookcases. “One instructor handed out hammers, one other one had a hearth extinguisher able to go after anyone,” the truth star mentioned. “Youngsters had been crying, ‘I don’t need to die.’”

KTLA reported on Thursday that San Juan Hills Excessive Faculty was positioned on lockdown that morning after a person walked on campus and instructed safety he had a weapon. In accordance with the Orange County Sheriff’s Division, officers searched the person and found that the weapon was a pocket knife. Authorities took the unidentified man into custody and he was arrested for trespassing.

Decide shares Sophia, daughter Sidney, 24, and son Spencer, 22, with ex-husband Simon Barney, whom she divorced in 2011. She additionally shares son Ryan, 27, with first husband Darren Vieth.

The Final Women Journey alum is one in all a number of superstar mother and father to talk out within the wake of a number of mass shootings within the U.S., together with the March 27 faculty taking pictures at The Covenant Faculty in Nashville that left three college students and three academics lifeless.

“A variety of you’re messaging and it’s not my children’ faculty, however it’s solely two miles up the street,” Jessie James Decker mentioned in an Instagram video after the Nashville incident. “It’s in our city. It’s in our group. It’s simply terrible. I’m simply heartbroken for these households.”

The Kittenish founder, 35 — who shares daughter Vivianne, 9, and sons Eric Jr., 7, and Forrest, 4, with husband Eric Decker — couldn’t maintain again her tears as she spoke to her followers. “Please pray so exhausting for these households and this group. This simply shouldn’t be occurring,” she continued. “I went and picked up the youngsters instantly and so they’re residence protected. This simply … what is going on on this planet?”

Fellow Nashville residents Jana Kramer and Kristin Cavallari additionally spoke out after the taking pictures, whereas Melissa Joan Hart revealed that she and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, helped college students evacuate.

The Masked Singer alum and the musician, each 46, had been on their approach to their youngsters’s close by faculty after they noticed a gaggle of children leaving The Covenant Faculty. “We helped a category of kindergarteners throughout a busy freeway that had been climbing out of the woods and had been making an attempt to flee the shooter scenario at their faculty,” the Drive Me Loopy actress mentioned, holding again tears. “We helped all these tiny little children cross the street and get their academics over there, and we helped a mother reunite along with her youngsters.”

Hart concluded: “I don’t know what to say anymore. Sufficient is sufficient. Simply pray. Pray for the households.” In her caption, she added, “Prayers immediately, Motion tomorrow.”