--- title: "RHOC Recap: Shannon Beador’s Costars Question Her Drinking" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/12/rhoc-recap-shannon-beador-drinking/ type: post date: 2023-10-12 modified: 2023-10-12 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/12/rhoc-recap-shannon-beador-drinking.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # RHOC Recap: Shannon Beador’s Costars Question Her Drinking ## During the season 17 reunion finale, the RHOC cast questioned Shannon Beador's drinking amid her tumultuous relationship with ex John Janssen. [Shannon Beador](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/shannon-beador-rhoc/)'s RHOC co-stars weren't afraid to call out her drinking just ten days before her arrest for DUI and hit-and-run. [Shannon was arrested for DUI on Saturday, September 16](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/10/rhoc-shannon-beador-outpatient/), in Newport Beach, California, after she drove her car into a residential property and ***“clipped the house.”*** The subject of Shannon's drinking was breached during part two of the [RHOC season 17 reunion](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/06/rhoc-jennifer-pedranti-tamra-judge/) on Wednesday when [Heather Dubrow](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/heather-dubrow/) questioned whether or not Shannon truly believes she schemes in a “Machiavellian” way. The 59-year-old admitted that she did, which is when Heather told her: ***“Don’t get angry with me. You tend to drink and call some of us.”*** ***“That’s a f---ed up thing to say to me, but okay,”*** Shannon responded. Yet, Heather insisted, ***“It’s not. You’re the town crier!”*** ***“Do I go out and drink sometimes?”*** Shannon asked. ***“For you to say I need rehab, for you to paint a picture so that I'm calling people every single night…” *** ![From left: Emily Simpson, Shannon Storms Beador and Tamra Judge at the ](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-8.45.24-AM.png)From left: Emily Simpson, Shannon Storms Beador, and Tamra Judge at the RHOC season 17 reunion. JOCELYN PRESCOD/BRAVO Shannon then turned her anger towards [Emily Simpson](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/emily-simpson/), who previously said Shannon should install a breathalyzer on her phone. ***“For you to say I can breathalyze,”*** she quipped, to which Emily interjected, ***“You should! I think it’s a good invention. I think you should put it on your phone.”*** Then, directing her attention back to Heather, she said:*** “You say it’s my truth serum when I haven’t had an intimate conversation."*** ***“You don’t want to look at that at all, though, Shannon. You don’t want to look at it all,” ***[Gina Kirschenheiter](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/gina-kirschenheiter/) noted. ***“You don't know anything about my personal, in-depth life,”*** Shannon fired back. ![From left: Emily Simpson, Shannon Storms Beador, and Tamra Judge at the ](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-12-at-8.45.47-AM.png)From left: Emily Simpson, Shannon Storms Beador, and Tamra Judge at the RHOC season 17 reunion. JOCELYN PRESCOD/BRAVO The mother of three then revealed the root of her issue with the 39-year-old OC Housewife: ***“From the beginning of you starting the show, you said in your first season when I was going through my acrimonious divorce, I masked with alcohol. And I said, ‘Did I drink more this season?’ Abso-freaking-lutely, I did.”*** ***“Our job is to say how we feel and say the truth about what’s going on,”*** Gina argued. ***“You know what my job is? My job is to be Shannon Storms Beador, so I’m not gonna look at this and go, ‘Well, I’m on a reality show, so I’m gonna act differently.’ I act the way I am,”*** Shannon clapped back. Meanwhile, Shannon also opened up about her tumultuous relationship with ex [John Janssen](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/09/18/shannon-beador-john-janssen-dating/) on Wednesday's reunion. ![RHOC Star Shannon Beador ‘Blindsided’ by Breakup With Boyfriend John Janssen](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/shannon-beador-john-janssen-rhoc-split.png)RHOC Star Shannon Beador ‘Blindsided’ by Breakup With Boyfriend John Janssen ***"We argued because what would happen is he would leave, and he would ghost me, and I wouldn't speak to him for days, and it would be paralyzing to me because I have never been more in love with anyone in my life than I have with John Janssen. And he said I'm ready to take the next step with you,"*** Shannon said in tears. When [Andy Cohen](https://allabouttrh.com/category/wwhl/andy-cohen/) questioned why John would talk about his and Shannon's plans for the future on camera and then break up with her a short time later. Gina explained that John ***"was trying to get through filming so that he didn't look bad."*** ***"He said it on camera, and a week later, he broke up with me,"*** Shannon revealed. ***"He broke my f---ing heart, and can I look back at certain scenes, and you can see that he's checked out? Absolutely I can,"*** she continued, ***"But I'm, like, embarrassed. I feel like I'm a smart person that has a semi-decent head on their shoulder, and it's like, 'My God, look at how he's looking at you,' or 'Did you not see it then?'"*** The RHOC cast encouraged Shannon to ***"cut ties" ***with John for good. However, Shannon admitted that she and John are still ***"sometimes" ***friends with benefits. > [View this post on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyO9_w0yTVG/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)[A post shared by @therealhousewiveszone](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyO9_w0yTVG/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) RHOC will return for season 18 in 2024. ## Thoughts on part two of the RHOC reunion? Did you enjoy season 17? Sound off in the comments. Source: [PEOPLE](https://people.com/rhoc-recap-shannon-storms-beador-costars-questioned-her-drinking-10-days-before-dui-8351131)