Sad Details About RHONY Star Brynn Whitfield’s Childhood

When Brynn Whitfield, Daris, and Trina were children, their parents, Jill Marie Mitchell and Alton Whitfield, were struggling. Though she only lived with her biological parents for the first six months of her life, Whitfield knows they lived in Section 8 housing and had gotten into serious trouble with the law.  Alton’s criminal record is riddled with arrests for retail fraud, drug possession, fraud, burglary, and writing bad checks. Sadly, Mitchell went down a nearly identical path, racking up some of the same charges as Brynn’s father. She served time behind bars beginning in 1987 and was on parole for two years after her release in 1990.

Before Mitchell headed off to prison, she gave her children up for adoption, which is how they ended up living with Darlene. Their grandmother worked hard to give the three kids a stable life. Meanwhile, Brynn’s birth mother remained on the straight and narrow after her prison stint.  She had four more children with a new man, though her relationship with Brynn, Daris, and Trina has remained strained.