While Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne has purposefully kept her son, Tommy Zizzo Jr., out of the spotlight, she has some of the sweetest things to say about him.
“My son and I, we’ve really come together,” Jayne, 53, said of her son in 2020, after experiencing legal and financial troubles following her split from Tom Girardi. “He’ll be 30 in June. Jesus. I just remember walking around here in New York being pregnant with him, but he’ll be 30. And so asking him what he thinks about things, you know, you get this adult perspective, and it’s really nice.”
Jayne shares Tommy — a Los Angeles police officer — with her ex-husband Thomas Zizzo. The pair divorced in 1992, shortly after Tommy was born.
In 2025, Tommy made headlines after he testified at A$AP Rocky’s assault trial. Rocky, 36, faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm relating to a 2021 shooting incident. He is accused of firing two shots at Terell Ephron, a childhood friend and former collaborator.
Zizzo was one of the first officers to respond to the scene. Rocky has pleaded guilty and denied all allegations against him.
Jayne has admitted that she keeps her son out of the spotlight “out of respect for his privacy as a police officer. Keep scrolling for everything she’s said about her son.
He’s Supportive of Her
After she separated from her ex-husband Girardi in November 2020, Jayne revealed that both her former husband Zizzo and her son have supported her through her own legal and financial ups and downs. “People don’t understand this, but we’re actually pretty tight,” she said of the pair. “They have been very supportive of me, and I’m very grateful.”
She added that the separation helped her become closer to Tommy. “My son and I, we’ve really come together. He’ll be 30 in June. Jesus. I just remember walking around here in New York being pregnant with him, but he’ll be 30. And so asking him what he thinks about things, you know, you get this adult perspective, and it’s really nice.”
They Look Alike
Earlier in 2020, Jayne shared a rare photo of her son on social media along with the caption, “People say we look alike.”
She’s Defensive of Him
Zizzo’s job as a police officer has drawn the ire of some people on social media. After one person tweeted that he should be shot in February 2019, Jayne fired back, “This is disgusting.”
After a commenter again attacked Zizzio for his profession in 2020, Jayne insisted her son is a great cop (and person). “My son was brought up NOT to be racist,” Jayne, who is from Georgia, wrote in response. “His job is to protect and serve ALL not just people that have his skin color. F–k you and stay off my page.”
She Says She’s Been a Good Mom
Though Jayne has admitted she wasn’t a great wife, in her 2018 book Pretty Mess she insisted she was a good mom. “I knew I was a good mom. I thought I was adult enough to be a wife and a mother, but really I wasn’t,” she wrote. “Tommy bore the brunt of that. It was this constant pressure and it was hard for both of us to take. We broke up when my son was a little more than 18 months old. I came out of a divorced home. I did what I knew, which was to take my son and leave.”
