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The third part of The Real Housewives of Orange County reunion on Nov. 21 ended in a shocking turn of events when Heather Dubrow revealed off-camera after taping that she allegedly had more details about Shannon Beador’s DUI night.
Just 36 hours later, the cameras were back on to follow the fallout from the revelations as the ladies gathered at Emily Simpson’s house to hear the full story.
“On the night of the finale party, we’re going to this dinner,” Heather explained, saying that she and Terry were joined by Tamra and Eddie Judge and Alexis Bellino and John Janssen. “Something comes up about the night of the crash and John says, ‘Oh, I heard a crash.'”
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Shannon said the news left her “numb”, as she always thought she would “never know the answer” about what John knew.
“He said that when you took off and heard the crash, he went to run after you, but his daughter stopped him and said, ‘No dad, this is not good, you guys are fighting, I’m going to look,'” Tamra added. “And she came around the corner and said you’re leaving.”
Shannon Beador and John Janssen.
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Realizing it “wasn’t a good night,” Heather and Tamra hinted at a particularly disturbing claim John made.
“He said there was an argument between you and him—he said you hit him,” Tamra whispered in Shannon’s ear.
“Yeah, I heard he said I hit him,” Shannon replied with tears in her eyes. “But I don’t remember everything. I don’t know what I did that night. Everyone says I hit him.”
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Gina Kirschenheiter, who also got a DUI in 2019, sympathized with Shannon, telling her that alcohol can make “things get mixed up in your head and make you make bad decisions.”
“You’ve changed your relationship with alcohol,” Gina continued before Shannon interrupted, “But guys, what if I did such bad things?”
“If you did bad things in the video, you’re going to take responsibility for what you did just like you took responsibility for what you did that night,” Gina replied. “That doesn’t make you a horrible person.”
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Shannon Beador.
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Tamra comforted Shannon, who she made amends to during the reunion, saying, “You’re a human being.”
Gina then noted that the drama with John played a big part in the rift between Shannon and Tamra, and they reconciled.
“You know what breaks my heart? You are such an amazing, really strong, smart, beautiful woman,” Heather said.
“I feel incredibly connected to all of you right now,” Shannon told the women as she cried. “For something like this to bring us all together, I am very grateful for that. And my worst moment in my life was the night of my DUI and I just feel like here we are, sitting here, over a year after my DUI and discussing that horrible night, but somehow, I just feel so much love from everybody . I’m just beside myself.”
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