‘RHOC’: Shannon Beador Says Ex John Suing Her Is ‘Extortion’: ‘He is a Monster’

Shannon Storms Beador is breaking down after ex John Janssen threatened a lawsuit in opposition to her.

On the group journey to Napa Valley within the Thursday, Sept. 5 episode of The Actual Housewives of Orange County, Shannon revealed that it was her deadline to achieve a settlement with John earlier than he sued her for $75,000 that he claimed was a mortgage. Explaining that she countered and supplied half that quantity, Shannon started to cry, saying John wouldn’t settle for.

“I simply really feel prefer it’s extortion,” Shannon mentioned, noting that John lately bought his share of his insurance coverage firm and didn’t want her cash. “What’s most vital to John is folks suppose he is a great man, and that is the first step, attempt to make Shannon look unhealthy, and he’s actually taking drastic steps.”

In an announcement to PEOPLE, John claimed he was “beneficiant all through” his relationship with Shannon, including, “This $75,000 mortgage was particularly marked as cash that Shannon knew was anticipated to be repaid.”

“I by no means wished to pursue authorized motion, however after exhausting each effort to have Shannon return the cash, she pressured the matter to be despatched to court docket,” he continued. “I solely search to finalize the final remaining merchandise stopping us from totally closing this chapter. All I would like is for Shannon to return the cash she owes.”

Later within the episode, Alexis Bellino, who’s now engaged to John, sat down with Heather Dubrow to debate whether or not she ought to have a dialog with Shannon. Heather advises her to not, however Alexis says she doesn’t know what else to do.

“I get that Shannon feels uncomfortable,” she mentioned. “I simply need to say what we need to say, put it to relaxation and transfer ahead. However I do not suppose that’s ever going to occur. We’ve to determine it out on this group, that’s all there’s to it.”

Later within the episode, Katie Ginella, Emily Simpson, Gina Kirschenheiter and Shannon went to the spa to decompress. When Emily urged Shannon pay John the total $75,000 to take the stress of a lawsuit off herself, Gina unintentionally let it slip that Alexis had incriminating movies of Shannon.

“From the night time of my DUI?” a panicked Shannon requested. “What are the main points? I don’t even keep in mind.”

When Katie defined that the movies allegedly confirmed Shannon almost working over John’s daughter, Shannon began sobbing.

“You understand what you guys, I’m working so f—ing exhausting on myself,” she mentioned. “He’s making an attempt to take me down. I’m so offended proper now.”

“He’s a monster,” she added via her tears.

Minutes later, Katie and Emily left for a spa therapy whereas Gina waited for Shannon to name her lawyer. When she returned, she revealed she informed him to “pay [John] no matter he desires.”

“I hope he rots in hell,” Shannon mentioned to Gina. “I swear. I hate him.”

After going to her room to take a nap, Heather Dubrow went to verify on Shannon earlier than dinner. When she discovered Shannon distraught, Shannon defined that she had no concept there was a video Alexis had been speaking about with the opposite girls. 

“It’s simply daily it’s been one thing,” Shannon mentioned. “He desires to clear his title and I’m not mendacity. I am not mendacity about John.”

Recounting the night time of her DUI, Shannon shared a reminiscence that appeared unusual to her. She had informed a good friend weeks after that the crash occurred “three to 5 seconds max” after pulling out of John’s driveway, and her good friend had suspicions about John’s lack of response.

“[My friend] mentioned, ‘Nicely I discover it unusual that John did not come working after you,’” she recalled.

“Do you actually consider in your coronary heart he didn’t hear that?” Heather questioned, to which Shannon replied, “I do not know.”

“I regarded again on my textual content messages, and I didn’t keep in mind that I did this, however I took {a photograph} of myself and I despatched it to [John] proper after midnight,” Shannon claimed. “And at 1:40 or 1:30 within the morning, he texted me and mentioned, ‘What the heck is happening? The cops simply introduced Archie right here, the place are you?’” 

Heather requested, “He simply ignored the image?”

“And I assume simply went to mattress,” Shannon concluded as she confirmed Heather the picture of her bloody face from the accident.

In assertion to PEOPLE, John denied Shannon’s recollection of the occasions that adopted her DUI arrest, claiming, “In an effort to make sure that Shannon would have somebody there for her the second she was launched, I waited outdoors the jail for hours earlier than bringing her residence to take care of her.”

John alleged that he “bathed Shannon, fed her, and introduced her to her medical appointments, whereas tending to her each want, and taking care of Archie for 10 days following her arrest.”

“Though we had been not collectively as a pair the night time of her DUI, and the traumatic occasions my daughters and I endured had been nonetheless recent in my thoughts, it was vital to me that Shannon have somebody to take care of her,” he shared.

“I made each attainable try and try to come up with her within the hospital, nevertheless, officers informed me she was underneath police custody and I used to be forbidden from coming there,” he claimed. “Nevertheless, that didn’t cease me from coordinating along with her household to make sure I would be there for her as quickly as she was launched from custody.”

He concluded the assertion by noting that he’s “disenchanted and baffled” by his ex “mischaracterizing these occasions and disparaging my character.”

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The Actual Housewives of Orange County airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo.