Southern Attraction alum Kathryn Dennis was sentenced to jail time after being convicted for her involvement in a 2024 drunk driving crash.
Dennis, 34, was ordered to serve 30 days in jail on account of being discovered responsible of driving below the affect on Friday, October 3, in Goose Creek, South Carolina, in line with WCBD Information. TMZ reported that Dennis was taken into custody round 7 p.m. ET on Friday to start serving her 30 day sentence at Berkeley County jail.
Us Weekly confirmed in Could 2024 that Dennis was initially arrested after being concerned in a three-car collision in Goose Creek.
Officers on the scene of the wreck talked about of their police report that Dennis had “shiny eyes and an odor of alcohol coming from her particular person” on the time of her arrest, although she initially denied that she had been ingesting. Police reported discovering an unopened mini-bottle of Fireball alcohol on the driving force’s aspect floorboard and an empty tumbler elsewhere in Dennis’ car.
Per WCBD, officers famous of their report that Dennis finally confessed to ingesting alcohol “manner earlier” throughout questioning at a neighborhood detention middle, regardless of initially denying the offense.
Southern Attraction viewers have seen Dennis open up about her struggles with ingesting all through her time on the Bravo sequence. (Dennis was a foremost forged member on Southern Attraction from season 2 to season 8, along with visitor starring all through season 1.)
Bravo cameras documented Dennis and her former accomplice Thomas Ravenel’s prolonged custody battle over their two youngsters — daughter Kensie and son Saint — the place her sobriety was referred to as into query. The fact star first misplaced custody of her youngsters on account of alleged marijuana use, earlier than lastly regaining 50/50 parental rights in 2017 on account of staying sober for 2 years.
In October 2018, Dennis requested a change in her and Ravenel’s custody settlement when he was arrested for assault and battery within the second diploma over an alleged 2015 incident involving the couple’s nanny. A decide in the end dominated in August 2019 that Dennis and Ravenel would proceed to share joint custody. (Ravenel pled responsible to costs of third diploma assault and battery in September 2019.)

Kathryn Dennis in October 2022. Santiago Felipe/Getty Photographs
The previous couple have been again in court docket March 2021 when Dennis briefly misplaced custody of Kensie and Saint as soon as once more, although she was in the end allowed supervised weekend visitation.
Bravo made the surprising announcement that Dennis was leaving Southern Attraction in January 2023. She had beforehand been a central determine on the Charleston, South Carolina-based actuality present since its inception in 2014.
“What a wild trip it’s been!” Dennis advised Individuals on the time. “Are you able to imagine I used to be 21 after I first began filming Southern Attraction, again in its first season? That was in 2013, and within the decade that adopted, it’s secure to say my life modified in methods I might by no means think about. It hasn’t at all times been straightforward, however I’m so fortunate to have had actuality cameras there, capturing so many moments that I’ll always remember (and some, even, that I’d prefer to).”
She went on, “By all of it, the love y’all have proven for me not solely gave me the power I wanted to deal with all of it, however helped me notice that I wasn’t alone. I’m so grateful. I’ll be carrying that love with me as I enter this subsequent chapter of my life, away from the Southern Attraction lens. I’m grateful for Bravo, the producers at Haymaker and my Charleston forged mates for every little thing.”
Southern Attraction was renewed by Bravo for an eleventh season in Could.