00:00We are here with the one, the only, Shannon Bedore to talk all things Real Housewives of Orange County, Season 19.
00:0619!
00:07Crazy.
00:08I know.
00:08I mean, going into this season, it must have felt like you had a huge weight lifted off, or two weights, I should say, lifted off of your shoulders.
00:16Would you agree with that?
00:18Absolutely.
00:19And, you know, I put myself in a position last year to kind of have a little bit of a rough go, but I knew that it couldn't get any worse, so it had to get better this season.
00:29Yes, it can only go up.
00:30Yeah, and I'm excited because I got to be silly a lot this season, so I'm excited for viewers to see that, and not a lot of tears.
00:39Yes, and we love that for you, because you deserve to be smiling and happy.
00:43Oh, you're very sweet. Everyone does. Everyone does.
00:44Yes, yes.
00:45Well, I love to see in the trailer, you confess to making out with multiple men in Newport.
00:50Would you say you're living your best life right now?
00:52Just a few. It's just a few.
00:53I'm just kidding.
00:54She's ready to mingle.
00:55Did you make out with multiple men in Newport?
00:58Yes.
01:00I just don't want to date right now. It was hard for me to accept that it was another failure, you know? So I just, I don't want to get hurt again right now. I just don't.
01:11Have your fun. That's all that matters.
01:13Have your fun, and I'm really happy. I mean, I want to find a partner, but if I don't, I'm having a lot of fun right now visiting my girls and doing things just that I want to do.
01:24Yes, yes. You want the next one to come in and be the right one who's going to make you happy and not cry, so that's the best part.
01:30Yes, yes.
01:31Well, it was nice to see you and Tamara pretty amicable in the premiere episode. Will that continue this season, or would you say that you guys are still kind of, you know, on your own turf, doing your own thing?
01:44Well, it was important for me that we got to a place where we could be okay together because there was so much tension that all the girls felt last season, which both Tamara and Alexis and I, and I didn't want to be the cause of that anymore.
01:58So, you know, we get to a point, and I am very aware of what she's going through emotionally with Teddy being sick, so we have our ebbs and flows, ups and downs.
02:10Yes. Would you say that, you know, the stuff going on with Katie this season that you're both kind of dealing with from her, did that bring you two together more at all?
02:20I mean, I think a little bit. Absolutely, yeah. It did.
02:23Yeah. Well, you know, in the premiere episode, when Tamara was talking to Eddie, she accused you of throwing away friendships. What's your response to that?
02:32I'm not going to beg for somebody's friendship, but it's just amazing how she can throw friendships away like that.
02:37Sometimes I get sad that we're not friends anymore.
02:41It's just, but that's what Tamara does. She takes things to such exaggeration.
02:46No, what I'm doing and what I want to continue to do and will continue to do and work on is taking that healthier path, and I am happy right now, and I need to create healthy boundaries for myself, and we had a toxic friendship.
03:01So, you know, we can be in a room, we can laugh together, even, but I'm not willing to go right back in to a friendship, because if you look back on it, we had a lot of ups and downs, and I'm not, I don't want to go there.
03:16I love to see you get together with your love hotel pals, Adam and Phil, in this week's episode.
03:21Now, you were very adamant that Phil is just a friend.
03:23So is Adam.
03:24And so is Adam. So I was going to say, has there been any development? Do you see yourself becoming romantic with Adam?
03:29No.
03:29Because there was a little bit of interest in love hotel.
03:32Nice to meet you.
03:33Adam was on the love hotel with me.
03:36I'm really glad I met you.
03:37I am too.
03:39But I eliminated him.
03:41I can't go forward without giving Earl my key.
03:45Adam is six years younger than I am. He says he might want to have kids again. That ain't happening here.
03:50I feel like she's still on the Sting English Hotel.
03:53It's like, she hasn't stopped.
03:55Right, but I eliminated him.
03:57So, no, we're just friends.
04:00But Adam and Phil live in California, so I see them quite often.
04:05Although, you know, I've been texting with Mark today.
04:08He lives in New York, and Ralph and JB Live, like, we all keep in touch quite often, so it's fun.
04:13And I wanted to bring a new love hotel guy to every single thing, but, you know, I guess there's a certain point I couldn't do it.
04:20But it was fun to have both of them participate.
04:22I love that, and I love the matching bowling outfits.
04:26That was amazing.
04:27It's just my, I'm not a big costume person as much anymore, but just like a little snippet.
04:32Yes, yes.
04:32Well, what did you think of Gina just grilling Adam?
04:35I thought that was hilarious.
04:36So, were you like a big drinker?
04:39No.
04:40No?
04:41Do you have like a temper, or are you a pretty even-keeled kind of guy?
04:44Very even-keeled.
04:45I simply will not tolerate a John Janssen 2.0 situation.
04:51Gina.
04:51It is not happening.
04:52I didn't realize that she was grilling him so much.
04:56Oh, my God.
04:56So, I think it's funny.
04:57And, you know, they're so sweet, Gina and Emily.
05:00They were looking out for me, so I appreciate that.
05:03Yeah.
05:03I know.
05:04I love that you guys are all so close now.
05:06It's such a fun friendship between all of you.
05:08Yeah, they're great.
05:08Yeah.
05:08They're great.
05:09Well, things got pretty explosive between you and Katie at the end of the episode.
05:13And you told her that she was worse than both Alexis and Tamara.
05:16And I am not going to let you rile me up.
05:19I'll let the ladies handle it.
05:20This girl, worse than Alexis Molino.
05:24Worse than Tamara Judge.
05:26Let's bat it.
05:27We're done.
05:28Was trying to give Katie what I thought was sound advice to make things better with certain
05:33people.
05:34And to find out that she did what she did just was a shock to me.
05:39And when this recording happened, it's right when we got back from London last year.
05:44And from last season, I left London early.
05:47I was spent.
05:48I was really in kind of a dark place after London because it had been a lot emotionally
05:54to go through.
05:56And she knew that.
05:57And so for her to literally two days after we get back from London, pull out a phone to
06:04record me and then play it for Alexis when I'm in a lawsuit, none of it adds up to me
06:11because the bottom line, if you're going to have an important business meeting, you're
06:15not going to do it in a glam room with eight people because that's how many people were
06:18in there.
06:19And then if I was so noisy, by the way, I wasn't on the phone.
06:23But if I was so noisy, use your legs and walk in one of the many rooms at the studio where
06:30we were.
06:30Yes, there were many things she could have done other than what she did.
06:36And I did not like what she did at all, especially after everything you had gone through with
06:40the ring cameras and whatever last season.
06:42I thought that that was just a very big turnaround.
06:45And you were also one of her only allies going into this season, you and you and Jen.
06:50I know it was it was really shocking to me.
06:53And that's why I removed myself from the hot pot lunch is I that's what I do now.
06:58I just need to take it in and process it.
07:00And after processing it, you know, I came to the very clear realization that recording
07:08someone has only negative intent.
07:10There was no good intention behind her doing that towards me.
07:13And there's no explanation.
07:15There's no reason like her but excuses like that's the apology.
07:21But that is not an authentic apology.
07:24Now, Gretchen Rossi, she's back this season.
07:26And I can't help but wonder if this is kind of Tamara's karma for being so close with
07:31Alexis last season while she was not getting along with you.
07:34What do you think of that?
07:36I might need a drink.
07:37Hi, Tamara.
07:39Hi, how are you?
07:40Let me reintroduce myself.
07:42Hi, Tamara Judge.
07:44Nice to meet you, Tamara.
07:44Nice to meet you.
07:45I'm Gretchen Rossi.
07:46It's been a while.
07:47It's been a while.
07:47You look beautiful.
07:48Wait, how long exactly?
07:49You two?
07:5012 years, maybe?
07:51I mean, I don't know.
07:52I've never filmed with Gretchen before because she left and then I started.
07:57And I never got close to her because Tamara wasn't friendly with her.
08:00And so, you know, if I ever saw her at a social event, I wouldn't, you know, get to know her.
08:05But I think she's great on the show.
08:08And, you know, I can't speak for Tamara, but I will say that it's clear after that hot pot lunch that there is deep-seated pain and hurt in both of them that's been sitting there for years.
08:23Yeah, yeah, definitely.
08:25And now you guys also have some fun cast trips coming up.
08:28What are you most excited to see from those?
08:31Well, I'm excited to see Silly Fun.
08:36And I call myself Fun Vacation Shannon.
08:38I don't even know why.
08:39That's just the weirdest thing.
08:40But, you know, I am silly on the trips.
08:44And we go to Amsterdam.
08:46You know, you can do things in Amsterdam legally.
08:50And so I might have done that.
08:52And I might have laughed a lot.
08:54And so that was, I loved that.
08:56Oh, my gosh.
08:56You guys were whooping it up?
08:58In a different way.
08:59In a different way.
09:00Is there anything else you can tease about the rest of the season?
09:03I know we've covered a lot, but anything you're very excited to see, anything you're dreading, anything at all?
09:09Well, I keep using these strange words.
09:13Like, there is so much drama this season, but it's odd.
09:18It's unique.
09:19It's like, like the recording.
09:23Right.
09:23Are you kidding?
09:24Someone recorded me and that's the drama?
09:27It's just very odd.
09:28But it is, there's a lot of it.
09:31Like, it's just nonstop.
09:32Till the very end.
09:33Yeah.
09:34Yeah.
09:34Honestly, the recording, that came out of left field.
09:36I was not expecting that.
09:38Because you guys were, like I said, you guys were close.
09:41She had her issues with everyone else, but I guess it all hung up.
09:44You know, and it's interesting.
09:45I think what it, Katie is trying to deflect off of the fact that she did something that, again, isn't lawful in all states.
09:53And then she says, oh, Shannon was throwing a fit like usual.
09:57Last season, like, where have I thrown the fit?
10:01I did throw a fit in episode three with you, Katie.
10:04Mm-hmm.
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