Shannon Beador is “finding humor” in having to exist in the identical orbit at her ex, John Janssen, due to her new-ish co-star on The Actual Housewives of Orange County, Alexis Bellino.
Alexis starred on the Bravo hit from season 5 by way of season 8; Shannon joined the present in season 9, which means the 2 by no means shared screentime till season 18, when Alexis rejoined the present (as “only a buddy,” Shannon makes clear) and introduced her new boyfriend, John, alongside together with her.
“As I saw as soon as I saw that photograph of them at the Quiet Woman I knew, I knew she is going to be back on the show,” Shannon says, referencing a photograph of Alexis, John and a gaggle of buddies squeezed right into a sales space on the RHOC-famous restaurant that went viral throughout fan accounts. That Kodak second got here simply six weeks or so after Shannon says she and John broke up for good, after months of claiming that they had taken a step again to simply being buddies.
“We both knew deep down it wasn’t going to work, and we didn’t want to admit, you know?” Shannon explains of denying she and John reconciled after they publicly introduced a break up. “We just didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, but we kind of made a big deal out of it by saying we are not back together.”
All the things modified with Shannon’s Sept. 2023 arrest for DUI. She says John broke up together with her roughly 10 days after she crashed her automotive right into a residential constructing, an accident she pleaded no contest to and is presently serving three years probation for, alongside neighborhood service. “Two weeks after the DUI, he called me and said– he was supposed to take me back to [Vicki Gunvalson‘s house, where I was staying], and he said, ‘We are done. You’ve ruined my life by making it so public, and you’ve ruined my family’s lives for making it so public…’ and I knew that our relationship had to be done anyways, so I accepted it and that was that.”
Cue Shannon’s shock, although, when John began seeing one other public determine, whose profile was lately re-upped into Housewives followers’ consciousness with a shock look at BravoCon in Las Vegas. It appears that evidently’s additionally the place the ball perhaps bought rolling on Alexis’ return to the present.
“I knew it in my gut [after the photo], but I didn’t officially find out until right before we filmed [in January],” she provides. “I wasn’t happy about it. No, I wasn’t.”
Shannon and Alexis confronted off nearly instantly, getting right into a heated confrontation within the season premiere over John and a years-old defamation lawsuit Alexis’ ex-husband, Jim Bellino, filed towards Shannon, from which she claims to have misplaced upwards of $300K. Shannon’s adamant Alexis was concerned within the go well with (“Tune in,” she teases of a would-be reveal), whereas Alexis has denied having something to do with it. Shannon’s now dealing with a brand new authorized battle towards John, who’s suing her for $75K he claims he loaned her for a face elevate and different bills. Shannon’s maintained it was a present, and that there was by no means any settlement to pay him again.
“I offered him the full amount because I know legal fees will surpass [$75K],” Shannon says. “He said, no, because he refused to sign a mutual non-disparagement agreement, which is industry standard in any settlement case. So, is it about money? Because if it was, you would have taken the money that you allege that I took from you. In addition, he has added a fraud component to the case, which is that I intentionally took money from him and that includes punitive damages.”
Shannon calls it “suspect” that Alexis is tied to the 2 males who’ve taken her to court docket, including an additional layer of mistrust between them. Alexis has jumped to John’s protection, telling the opposite girls within the circle (and subsequently the viewers) that Shannon has lied repeatedly about John and misrepresented his character. Shannon’s gone so far as labeling him a “monster” on the present, a remark she now says was taken out of context.
“I said that from today’s perspective, not from back then,” she explains, which means she presently seems like he is a “monster” as a result of their ongoing authorized state of affairs. Nevertheless, she believes Alexis — who’s proclaimed she is going to marry John only a couple months into seeing each other — has but to really meet the person Shannon dated for 4 years, a time she says was stuffed with peaks and valleys.
“There aren’t a lot of stories, there’s just details to tell,” Shannon says. “At the beginning of my relationship with John, I paid for everything. Yes, I did. Not the entire relationship, but I did at the beginning. So, I don’t know what else to say. You know, that happens. Sometimes you have good times, sometimes you don’t.”
“I cared about John,” she provides. “In at the beginning of our relationship … within two weeks, I was told a lot of the same things that Alexis was told. I mean, verbatim. So, I thought that this was my future husband, and when you are in hard times, you think about those good times. So it was always my hope that we would get back to that.”
On final week’s episode, Shannon accused John of “coaching” Alexis, after Alexis threatened to supply “receipts” in regards to the $75K lawsuit. Shannon believes John is feeding Alexis data and giving her speaking factors, as a result of, she claims, he used to do as a lot for her.
“Before I would film, especially last year’s reunion, I mean, that was just… my head was spinning,” Shannon shares. “‘You need to say this, you need to do this…'”
Shannon says one thing Gina Kirschenheiter shared together with her additionally proves her “coaching” idea. Gina informed Shannon that when she tried to clarify her personal historical past with John (he as soon as yelled at her at a celebration), Alexis spoke as if she had been there and defended his actions.
“On that night I said, ‘John, why were you so upset?’ He goes, ‘Well I couldn’t find the food, you know, the alcohol hit me, whatever…'” Shannon recollects of knowledge Alexis would not have had. “So, Gina said, ‘Alexis turned to me at the luncheon and said, he was hungry.’ I said, what? So, he had told Alexis that story, and her response was supposed to be, he was hungry.”
As these dueling factors of view play out on RHOC, Alexis and John gave a joint interview to actuality TV producer Carlos King on his Actuality With the King podcast. When requested what it was wish to date Shannon, John replied with, “What’s it like to fail every day? Every day to fail at everything. That is what it felt like to date her.”
“It’s like, gosh, John! You’re such a good guy, you are such a good guy,” Shannon repeats sarcastically. “You are trying all the time.”
John additionally stated he would not assume Shannon might survive with out the present. She takes that to imply financially, to which she agrees.
“I would have to find something else to do,” she admits. “It would be a struggle.”
After this interview, Shannon would not have something extra to say about John and Alexis aside from that she needs them nicely.
“I mean, putting John aside, if she was not dating John, I would have the same conversation with her,” Shannon says. “She started the ball rolling. Yes, her name is not on court documents, but she’s [Jim Bellino’s] ex-wife, and I lost a lot of money and I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Shannon’s off to (hopefully) discover a new love of her personal, becoming a member of Peacock’s tentatively titled Love Resort, a relationship present she’ll quickly movie in Mexico alongside fellow single Housewives stars Gizelle Bryant, Ashley Darby and Luann de Lesseps.
“You know what? I am excited about that,” she blushes. “I think it’s going to be really fun, so I am really excited that they asked me to do it. … I mean, what else am I doing? My kids will all be back in school, and I don’t have anything else going on, so it will be fun. I am going to have fun with it. I am walking into it saying, this is just going to be fun.”
Earlier than that, although, there’s much more of season 18 to observe and, from what Shannon says, it is a dramatic curler coaster.
“Oh, it’s beyond,” she quips. “I, for the first time in my life, thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. I was told things– I was talking to my attorney off to the side, and I was told things with the girls that I couldn’t believe.”
Shannon is referencing a trailer-making second, through which she seems to hyperventilate whereas on a forged journey. All of it has to to do with John and the authorized battle; even worse, she says that near-nervous breakdown is not her low of the season.
“More happens and, I want to make it clear that I do not want to be portrayed as a victim,” she says. “I am not. If anything, I have proven to myself that, in the last year, I am a survivor. I am not a victim.”
The Actual Housewives of Orange County airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo; episodes stream subsequent day on Peacock.
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