The RHOC OG shares the real story behind their seemingly united entrance into BravoCon, and how the fallout from Beador’s DUI affected his longtime friendship with Vicki Gunvalson, too.
Tamra Choose You know she’s a great friend and you won’t let her Shannon Beador inform no one in any other case.
In a new interview with Leisure TonightChoice detailed the couple’s most recent fight, which is happening in season 18 of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Following Beador’s arrest for DUI and the dissolution of her Tres Amigas tour with Vicki GunvalsonThe issues between Choose and Beador seem worse than ever — and we’re only two episodes in.
“She’s aware that I know a lot, and she’s so scared, like, I’m just going to discredit her and make her look sick, which is horrible. It’s completely horrible,” Choose instructed ET. “You know, she has to tell lies about me to make me look sick. I’ve had to tell lies about her to make her look good for so many years.”
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Beador was arrested for DUI in September and has since pleaded no contest. She was sentenced to three years probation for the incident, in which she crashed her car into the side of a residential building while traveling three times the legal limit.
While they performed a united entrance as the “Tres Amigas” at BravoCon in Las Vegas in November, things were far from happening behind the scenes.
“Coming into this season, we’re not talking about anything anymore,” he said. RHOC OG set to ET. “It’s hard for viewers to see… (because) I was right there next to Shannon… I was crying on the phone with her. I was having difficult conversations with her saying, ‘This is a pick-up line…’”
While the trio had a stage show together at the time of Beador’s arrest, with a date set just weeks after the headline-grabbing DUI, Choose wanted to cancel it. Since much of his humor centered around alcohol, she didn’t think it was a good time to make light of drinking, given what had happened to Beador.
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“I assumed that maybe Shannon wanted some expert help, and that she needed a break from just being on tour, and all the stress of everything that was going on at the moment,” she said.
Beador, meanwhile, completed a 28-day alcohol-free program ahead of BravoCon.
In the end, they agreed to go ahead with the show, as they were committed to a contract, and it could be the Three Amigas’ definitive stage appearance.
“I found out after the first time we did our show in Irvine that (Shannon), that night, got drunk and started saying horrible things about me to everyone I knew, and I kind of let it go,” she revealed.
She claimed that she later confronted her castmate and told her what she had noticed, telling her, “If you keep talking about me like that, I don’t have to worry about it. I don’t want to do this show. You want to do this show. So figure it out. If there’s something wrong, let me know. Let me know if you have a problem with me,” Choose said, adding. “And once again, she did it again.”
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“I just, I can’t do this anymore,” Choose continued. “Here I am, serving you. I’ve been by your side. No one knows you better than I do, for the last 10 years. I’m trying to help you with this, and you’re talking behind my back?”
Beador reached out to Choose again about the whole matter, suggesting that Choose overreacted to the feedback he gave about minor frustrations surrounding Tamra’s schedule, which made it difficult to perform his stage show.
“You need to watch out for that Shannon Beador,” Choose warned. “She’s great at her one-liners, and persuading viewers and spectators to consider that something is happening when it’s not.”
Choose has stated that she is seeing a lot more of this season, with Beador claiming that Choose simply abandoned her after the DUI. However, Choose was actually in a foreign country when it occurred, filming season 2 of Peacock’s The Traitors In Scotland.
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“I used to be on Shannon’s side,” Choose insisted, maintaining that she was keeping Beador’s use “a secret” and dealing with erratic phone calls where she claims Beador was “calling me, saying something, hanging up and calling me back, and having the same conversation. No memory of it!”
Although Beador later admitted that she was having a hard time drinking more after her arrest, she said she stopped drinking for a while and now has no more than two drinks — and is convinced she doesn’t have a drinking problem.
“I just can’t do this anymore,” Choose went on to say. And to those who say she’s not being nice to her former friend, Choose fired back, “I feel like people have to understand, for those who have been in my shoes and here you are trying to help someone, and everything that has happened in the last 10 years that I’ve had to deal with this lady has been very poisonous and exhausting.”
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She claimed she instructed Beador that this DUI is a wake-up call, you have to get help.” She even claimed Beador agreed, but then “went up to one of our mutual friends and just went off on me, ‘Who the f**k does she think she is?!’ And I was like, ‘I’m a friend who cares is what I am!’ I’m a friend who wants you to get better.”
“You’re always unhappy. You’re always depressed. You’re always crying,” she continued. “Is this the best way to live the last half of your life? It’s time to make adjustments.” As it stands, she doesn’t feel like Beador is taking responsibility for her alcoholism.
“I feel like she should go to rehab,” Choose stated before revealing that Beador told her that after she got her DUI ticket, she told Choose she was going to get treatment to figure out why she was dating the wrong men — namely her ex, John Janssen.
Janssen has since moved on for RHOC former student and housewife who returned Alexis Bellinowho is once again a “friend” of the cast. This is all serving as a sore point for Beador, with Alexis and Shannon jumping straight into a heated confrontation during the show’s season 18 premiere.
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“I always thought it would be better to have Alexis available maybe in the second or third episode,” Choose reflected. “That means we get to go through this whole DUI thing and what’s going on, but right now, it’s being overshadowed by John Janssen, and everyone’s like — she’s the only person I know who can crash her car into a house, 3 times the legal limit and people are saying, ‘I’m so sorry that happened to you.’”
“You know, if that happened to me, I might be getting eaten alive!” she added. “Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, poor Shannon! Oh, poor Shannon! Oh, poor Shannon!’ and let’s be honest, if she had a bright energy, you know what she might be? The sufferer. She’s great at enjoying the sufferer.”
As for Choose’s relationship with Gunvalson, she told ET that, unfortunately, it’s pretty much nonexistent these days.
“I didn’t know Vicki and I had a problem,” she shared. “I didn’t know we had a problem. Evidently, she’s been saying a lot of horrible things about me. You’ll notice, she’s on the show this season. We had a lot of fun. I mean, she had her viewers (and Shannon’s) screaming ‘Eff Tamra!’ and I was like, we were just texting the week before! What are you doing?”
“Unhappy” and “upset” to see Vicki turn on her, Choose stated that she is actually quite shocked as she thinks they share similar considerations about Shannon.
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“You need to be on Shannon’s side, that’s to your advantage, but you personally told me, ‘Yes, she has a drinking problem,’” Choose said. “I said, ‘If you want to leave her, go ahead, but I’m not going to do it anymore.’”
“There’s a lot of nastiness going on in the present, and a lot of backstabbing in the present, but that’s real life,” Choose said. “These are friendships that have lasted for many years, and you’re going to do this to me when all I’ve ever done is be there for you. In fact, after I left the present, after I got fired, (Shannon) stopped talking to me for two years, she did the same thing to Vicki.”
In terms of toxicity, Choose, an OC veteran, says she’s over it and is focusing on what’s next.
“I’m just moving forward,” she declared. “I don’t want to be around poisonous people who just talk behind everyone’s back all the time.”
Watch all the drama unfold when The Actual Housewives of Orange County airs Thursday nights at 9pm ET on Bravo.