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'The whole family is separated': Tearful Tamra Judge reveals teen daughter refuses to talk to her amid ugly custody battle with her ex on RHOC reunion

Published: 02:58 EST, 20 October 2015 | Updated: 13:35 EST, 20 October 2015

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Tamra Judge broke down in tears as she admitted she has completely lost touch with her teenage daughter Sidney.

The Real Housewives of Orange County star wiped away tears during the reunion show on Monday as she admitted to having 'a whole lot of life-changing things happen to me’ that she had not revealed on the show.

Struggling to control her voice and insisting it was 'something I’ve never talked about’, Tamra then described how her custody battle with her ex Simon Barney destroyed her relationship with Sidney, who was 17 at the time.

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Custody battle: Tamra Judge broke down on Monday during The Real Housewives Of Orange County reunion show

Tried hard: Tamra revealed how she tried her hardest to reconcile with Sydney to no avail

Relationship gone sour: Tamra with her ex-husband Simon Barney, pictured here in 2008

She recalled how Sidney confronted her one day and said: 'I don’t want to live with you anymore.’

'She basically left home that day and two years later has not come back,’ she sobbed, insisting she had 'no idea where it was coming from’.

'I was trying to do everything I could do to try to get her back and I couldn’t understand why Sydney left,' she wailed.

Tamra said she once got a text from Sidney who told her 'I love you’ only for that to be ruined by stories in the press about her custody battle with Sidney’s dad.

'She never talked to me again,’ she said tearfully.

'I tried so hard to get her help - went to court, went to therapy,’ she said, insisting her ex shut her down.

'I went to court to get her help - and he fought me not to get here help. And he won. The judge said, ''She’s 17, she can choose who she wants to live with'' - and that’s it.’

To make matters worse, her son Spencer lives with her and refuses to speak to his dad.

'So the whole family is just so separated,’ she sobbed.

Lending support: Shannon Beador leaned over to offer Tamra support during her emotional revelation

When Cohen asked why she kept it hidden from the reality TV show, she said: 'If your child turns her back on you it’s humiliating, its embarrassing. And then I’m in the press being called ''a monster mom''…’

She said it was at a time where she spent all day 'laying in bed thinking, ''I can’t do this anymore''’ that a woman at work who she hardly knew approached her and asked if she wanted to go to church.

'And I said, ''Yeah I do because I really think I’m going to die right now''.

The host: Andy Cohen of Bravo hosted the reunion show

'We went to church and I remember sitting there and I was crying and crying and crying, and I went back and back and back,’ she recalled of being in church, saying it sparked her newfound faith that saw her getting baptized on the show.

'It felt right - it gave me what I needed,' she added.

When Cohen warned that her ex-husband may respond to her speaking out on the reunion, she insisted: 'I don’t care anymore - he’s not going to push me around, tell me what to do. I’ve kept quiet because of him for so long and now I’m speaking out.’

Speaking out: Tamra said she wasn't afraid of speaking out

And while clearly hurt and angry at her ex, she also insisted: 'Sometimes you have to go through stuff like that to go to a better place. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him.’

Meanwhile, fellow housewife Vicki Gunvalson defended the show for filming her harrowing howls of grief when she discovered her mother had died, insisting it was all genuine.

And she also insisted that she has failed to control the pain of her loss, insisting: 'It's actually gotten worse - I never thought my mother would die.’

Still mourning: Vicki Gunvalson talked about her late mother and her lingering sense of loss

The star had been caught dropping to her knees and sobbing uncontrollably after getting the call that mom Joanne Steinmetz had dropped dead.

Vicki admitted that she has faced criticism for allowing the cameras to keep rolling - but insisted she was not aware it was happening at the moment.

'I know some people have said we probably should have cameras off - I really didn’t realize that cameras were filming it all, I think i was probably in so much shock,’ she told Cohen.

Together again: Andy relayed questions from viewers to the housewives

Saying that the death is 'still very vivid and real in my mind right now’, she made it clear watching it on film was a shock.

'I kind of blacked it out so when I saw it again…,' Vicki said.

As for any feelings of regret for allowing it on the Bravo show, Vicki insisted: 'It’s real life stuff and you guys were very gracious about that.’

New look: Meghan King Edmonds showed off a new brunette look on the reunion show

During the season, Vicki repeatedly spoke of being overwhelmed by mourning her mother - feelings she insisted have since only grown more intense.

'It's actually gotten worse,’ she said.

'Our void has gotten worse. I need my mom. I don't feel like I have anybody watching over me.

Huge void: Vicki said the void has 'gotten worse' since her mother died

'It’s an unbelievable feeling when you don’t have a mother because there’s waves that hit during the day and at night when you’re sleeping - I’m having a real tough time just finding peace in not having her in my life.’

She then admitted 'I never thought she’d die - it’s so stupid but I never really thought she’d die.

'I always joked with her that I wanted to die first because I didn’t want to have the pain.’

Expressive face: Shannon insisted that she had an expressive face

Judgmental eyes: Meghan stood by her claim that Shannon has 'judgy' eyes

She also admitted that she never found the exact cause of death, saying they 'didn’t do an autopsy because we didn’t want her cut up’.

Guessing that the cause of death was 'either a massive heart attack or a brain aneurysm’, she added: ’It was something that took her quick.’

Asked for a funny story about her mother, Vicki recalled the time she had keyed a motorcycle after the tailgating rider flipped her off - even though she was 80 years old.

Good story: Vicki shared a funny story about her late mother

'He was watching her do this so of course he called the police,’ she recalled as the other women laughed.

Thinking she’s about to be arrested, Vicki recalled her mother 'dumped her cart, went into the women’s bathroom and she locks the door’ refusing to answer to the police.

Vicki said her mother even told the officers she had a pistol in her bag even though she didn’t.