Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann’s Year-Long Battle Over a Locked Phone

The dispute surfaced in February 2025, when Kim Zolciak filed an emergency motion in Fulton County following a discovery Kroy Biermann claimed to have made. While the specific nature of the finding remains redacted in public filings, the motion notes that Kroy alerted a court-appointed mental health professional to the information on February 7. Zolciak sought an in-camera inspection, a process allowing a judge to review evidence privately, arguing that public disclosure would compromise the children’s interests.

This discovery fractured the household. Zolciak alleged that Kroy restricted her access to the children and seized their phones, claiming he was actively preventing communication to maintain control. By February 21, 2025, the case moved to Cobb County, where an order was entered regarding the inspection of the eldest child’s phone. The court subsequently sealed the proceedings, leaving the public without insight into what the judge reviewed or concluded. The device’s history gained new gravity in August 2026, following KJ Biermann’s arrest on felony charges, including aggravated sodomy and sexual battery. While the family maintains his innocence, citing a voluntary polygraph and a lack of physical evidence, the device remains a central, if obscured, element of a legal saga that has now drawn in even former rivals like NeNe Leakes, who reached out to Zolciak in the wake of the indictment.