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Shannon Beador recently opened up about her exclusion from the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip finale. This came on the heels of a dramatic confrontation with Tamra Judge during the initial episode of the season. Hinting at the tension, Shannon suggested that Tamra was the catalyst for more than just the clash on screen. Furthermore, the Real Housewives of Orange County personality responded forcefully to an ex-producer’s allegations claiming she behaves poorly towards the production crew.
During the premiere episode of RHUGT, Tamra implied that Shannon’s life was less fulfilling due to her single status, even taking aim at Shannon’s drinking habits—a point she had repeatedly apologized for in the past season. The situation escalated quickly as Shannon resorted to shouting at Tamra before choosing to remove herself from the fracas. Reports later surfaced that both women faced exclusions from the RHUGT finale, a consequence of the volatile exchange.
In a conversation with ET, Shannon shared her thoughts on being uninvited from the finale after the intense altercation with Tamra.
“What upset me the most about the whole thing was that I was supposed to go to the finale at the Berkshires, and I felt very honored to be included in that,” she said. “So for me, that was a huge blow that I wasn’t able to go when I feel as though I wasn’t really the instigator.”
“Tamra instigated a lot of other things that night too, not just with me,” she went on. “So it was a huge bummer for me. … We were both not allowed to go, which I didn’t really understand why I was included in that because I tried to be calm, until I wasn’t.”
Reporter Brice Sander then asked where Shannon sees herself with Tamra moving forward.
“You know, I’m not gonna go on social media, make comments. She doesn’t know what I’m doing,” she said. “Sometimes I get sucked in. We all know the sucked-in Tamra position. We’ve been in it many times. But I have fun with her, and that’s my plan, is to continue on that road.”
Later on, Shannon addressed an ex-producer Patrick McDonald‘s recent claim that Shannon is one way to the crew and one way on camera.
“It’s been difficult for me, but because I have been doing this for 12 years, and I consider a lot of the people that I work with to be family at this point,” she said. “So it’s a shame that someone is putting something out there.”
“I know who I am, and I think [you] can see on the show, maybe not, that I’m pretty kind in general,” she added. “But yeah, if you make me mad, I’m gonna say something. But it hurts my feelings a little bit because I don’t know what [the producer is] talking about.”