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Shannon Beador isn’t one to remain quiet when there’s one thing value saying, and this time, she’s saying all of it. The Actual Housewives of Orange County star is opening up like by no means earlier than, peeling again the curtain on the behind-the-scenes drama, her fractured friendships, and the personal moments she’s saved hidden from the general public for years.

“That is gonna chew me within the a**, however Kelly Dodd, typically she’s been a beautiful pal to me, after which different occasions, relying on her temper, she goes for the jugular,” Shannon confesses on Let’s Speak Off Digital camera with Kelly Ripa. “I simply form of preserve at peace along with her. I don’t wanna struggle. I don’t wish to struggle, however I’ll struggle.”
The drama isn’t restricted to her time on-screen. Beador additionally drops a bombshell about how she initially joined RHOC—with out telling her then-husband, David Beador.

“I didn’t inform my ex-husband that I used to be interviewing,” she says about her Season 9 audition. “They known as me they usually stated, ‘Are you able to ship us a pink carpet picture?’ I’m going, ‘I can ship you my Christmas card picture,’ and I faxed over a Christmas card image of my household they usually go, ‘We wanna meet you.’”
Pondering she had little probability, Beador went to the assembly alone. “I assumed, I’m gonna be 50. They’re not gonna need me,” she says. “After which they gave me a callback on the spot and I got here dwelling going, I wasn’t actually the place I stated I used to be gonna be and foreshadow as a result of he had an affair, however he thought, ‘Oh, she had an affair.’ They usually got here down and met my household. And I received it.”