RHOC: Gina Confronts Shannon About Years of ‘S—ty’ DUI Digs 10 Days Before Shannon’s Legal Trouble

Gina Kirschenheiter is accusing Shannon Storms Beador of utilizing her earlier DUI as a “weapon” and implicating her youngsters within the course of. 

Partly certainly one of The Actual Housewives of Orange County reunion on Wednesday, host Andy Cohen confronted Shannon about mentioning the actual property agent’s 2019 DUI earlier this season after promising to by no means communicate of it throughout final 12 months’s reunion. 

Again in episode 12 of the Bravo present, Shannon had an excessive amount of to drink at her taco fiesta social gathering and claimed that Gina’s youngsters would have been taken by youngster protecting companies had she not given her a quantity to an legal professional when she acquired arrested for driving underneath the affect. 

When she was later confronted for her feedback, the 59-year-old actuality star mentioned that she didn’t bear in mind the claims she had made. On the reunion, Gina informed Andy that she by no means obtained an apology for Shannon’s falsehoods. 

“Gina, I don’t bear in mind saying it,” Shannon mentioned, defending herself. “After I made that assertion, I wasn’t saying that your youngsters can be put within the system and brought away from you. It was had you been arrested and an grownup would not have been current. They would not have left your youngsters there till you bought your authorized issues taken care of.”

She admitted, “That being mentioned, I used to be informed by Heather [Dubrow] that you just have been discussing my relationship. I used to be freaking pissed off at you.I do not such as you. We do not get alongside, as a result of you do not know something about me.”

Gina interrupted Shannon and requested her to record her youngsters’s names. When the tv character drew a clean, the mother of three demanded she “by no means speak about my youngsters once more.”

“I’ve identified you for six years and you do not even know my youngsters’ names,” she continued. “And also you’re gonna drop a bomb about CPS. It’s fully inaccurate. It’s so inappropriate.”

She added, “You’re out of bounds proper right here, Shannon, you have been so fallacious. And so that you can have something proper now apart from ‘I am sorry for my conduct’ — you’re going low.”

Shannon confessed it was an “unkind factor” whereas Gina claimed that she was “fearful” about different folks discussing her relationship along with her now ex-boyfriend John Janssen and that she was “making up issues” about her youngsters.

“That is who you’re. You’re the lady who will get confirmed that you just did a s—ty factor and you do not simply lay down and say you are sorry, it isn’t okay,” Gina continued, whereas Shannon admitted she was “horrified” watching the episode again. 

Shannon defended herself as soon as once more, claiming that she believed that they had resolved issues the day after her explosive taco social gathering. She informed the group that she had at all times been “form” to Gina and mentioned she had a “laundry record” of fine deeds — together with sending her a lifeline when she was arrested for a DUI. 

“You gave a telephone quantity to me four-and-a-half years in the past after which you’ve used it as a weapon ever since,” Gina mentioned, explaining why the scenario has prompted her a lot anguish. “My youngsters are this near being on social media. You place clickbait on the market. ‘Gina, mother, CPS youngsters nearly taken away.’ My youngsters, for them to see that and get harm by that and you do not even know their names.”

“This can be a wound that has stayed with me and it’ll stick with me, you’ve crossed a line to the purpose the place I do not even know if I can truthfully even proceed to do that,” she mentioned. 

Sarcastically sufficient, 10 days previous to filming the reunion, PEOPLE confirmed that Shannon was “arrested at 1:17 a.m. on Sept. 17 after fleeing the scene from a collision that prompted property harm,” based on the Newport Seaside Police Division. 

The NBPD additionally confirmed that Beador had been “booked for 2 misdemeanors — hit-and-run and DUI alcohol. She was launched on a quotation.”

The Bravolebrity was discovered strolling her canine by police after she allegedly left her automobile in the midst of the highway, based on the preliminary report by TMZ. 

Following the information, Gina addressed Shannon’s authorized hassle on her Orange Nation podcast and informed her co-host Shane McAnally she wasn’t going to “kick somebody once they’re down.” 

“You and I each can relate to what’s occurring right here, sympathize to what’s occurring right here. Sure, clearly, you possibly can’t ignore … the irony of it, which is main,” she informed Shane. “However truthfully, on the finish of the day … I simply don’t have it in me. I’m not going to kick somebody once they’re down, and I’ve been down.”

“I do know the place she’s at proper now. It’s not a superb place to be — mentally, emotionally,” she added.

The Actual Housewives of Orange County reunion half two will air on Wednesday Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.