The Real Housewives of Orange County‘s season 18 reunion ended in a way no one could have expected.
In fact, after the cast was finished rehashing this season’s feud and drama, production picked back up three days later in a shocking twist. And, yes, the bombshell—which Heather Dubrow revealed off camera—was about the night of Shannon Beador‘s DUI.
“Seven months she’s known that piece of information and she drops it after we film the reunion and they turn all the cameras off?” Emily Simpson reacted to Gina Kirschenheiter in the final moments of the Nov. 21 episode. “When she told me that, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?!'”
However, Heather insisted didn’t intentionally keep the jaw-dropping revelation a secret from the group.
“I wasn’t holding the information,” Heather explained to Gina, Emily, Tamra Judge and Shannon. “What happened was, the night of the finale party, we go to this dinner. It’s Tamra and Eddie [Judge] and me and Terry [Dubrow] and then Alexis [Bellino] and John [Janssen]. I don’t remember why it came up. You were not the topic of conversation all night.”
But then the chatter turned to the night Shannon drunkenly crashed her car last year after she and John had a contentious fight.