In fact, aft the formed was finished rehashing this season's feud and drama, accumulation picked backmost up 3 days aboriginal successful a shocking twist. And, yes, the bombshell—which Heather Dubrow revealed disconnected camera—was astir the nighttime of Shannon Beador's DUI.
"Seven months she's known that portion of accusation and she drops it aft we movie the reunion and they crook each the cameras off?" Emily Simpson reacted to Gina Kirschenheiter successful the last moments of the Nov. 21 episode. "When she told maine that, I was like, 'Are you kidding me?!'"
However, Heather insisted didn't intentionally support the jaw-dropping revelation a concealed from the group.
"I wasn't holding the information," Heather explained to Gina, Emily, Tamra Judge and Shannon. "What happened was, the nighttime of the finale party, we spell to this dinner. It's Tamra and Eddie [Judge] and maine and Terry [Dubrow] and past Alexis [Bellino] and John [Janssen]. I don't retrieve wherefore it came up. You were not the taxable of speech each night."
But past the chatter turned to the nighttime Shannon drunkenly crashed her car past twelvemonth aft she and John had a contentious fight.
As Heather continued, "John said, 'Oh, I heard the crash.' Tamra and I some went, 'What the f--k are you talking about?!'"
Upon proceeding this info for the archetypal time, an affectional Shannon replied, "I went numb. It was ever an 'I'll ne'er cognize the answer.'"
But adjacent much details of that melodramatic nighttime were exposed by John.
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Heather continued, "He said that erstwhile you took disconnected and helium heard the crash, helium went to spell tally for you but his girl stopped him and said, 'No, dad, this isn't good. You guys are fighting, I'm gonna spell look.' She went astir the country and you were pulling off."
Then, Tamra dropped 1 past revelation: "He said that determination was an altercation betwixt you and him. He says you deed him."
A tearful Shannon responded, "I heard that helium said I punched him, but I don't retrieve everything. I don't cognize what I did that night."
Despite her mistakes, the Housewives promised to enactment Shannon nary substance what aft her messy breakup and ineligible troubles. And the amusement of enactment was precisely what Shannon needed.
"I consciousness incredibly bonded to each of you close now," she told the foursome. "To person thing similar this bring america each together, I'm precise grateful for it. My lowest infinitesimal of my beingness was my DUI, and I conscionable consciousness similar present we are, sitting present a twelvemonth aft my DUI and discussing that horrible night. But somehow, I conscionable consciousness truthful overmuch emotion astir maine close present and it's overwhelming."
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