Shannon Beador’s alcohol consumption discussed at RHOC reunion, recorded 10 days before her DUI arrest

Shannon Beador’s alcohol consumption was addressed on last night’s reunion episode of The Real Housewives Of Orange County – which was filmed 10 days before her DUI arrest.

Viewers were notified of when the show was filmed in relation to her arrest with a message appearing on screen.  ‘The Real Housewives Of Orange County Reunion was filmed 10 days prior to Shannon Storms Beador’s DUI arrest,’ the statement read.

Beador, 54, drunkenly crashed her car into a home and was arrested for DUI and hit-and-run on September 17. 

Her drinking was brought up by Heather Dubrow, 59, who claimed Beador, 59, had a tendency to drink and call her castmates.

‘Please don’t get angry with me, but you tend to drink and call some of us,’ Dubrow said. 

‘That’s a f**ked up thing to say,’ Beador fired back.

‘It’s not!’ Dubrow exclaimed. ‘You’re the town crier!’ she insisted. 

‘Do I go out and drink sometimes? For you to say I need rehab, for you to say like, paint a picture, so that I’m calling people every single night,’ she said.

‘I didn’t say every single night,’ Dubrow clarified.

She then turned to her co-star Emily Simpson, who once jokingly suggested Beador put a breathalyzer on her phone. ‘For you to say I need to breathalyze,’ Beador said.   

But Emily didn’t back down: ‘You should! I think it’s a good invention! You need to put it on the phone!’ she insisted. 

‘You say it’s my truth serum,’ Beador continued firing off to Dubrow. 

‘You don’t wanna look at that? You don’t want to look at that at all though, Shannon? You don’t want to look at it at all,’ Gina Kirschenheiter said. 

‘You don’t know anything about my personal, in-depth life,’ Beador fired back before declaring her dislike for Gina. ‘Let me re-iterate Gina, I don’t like you!’ Beador said. 

‘She doesn’t like the truth so, she don’t like me,’ Gina said. 

Gina had also previously spoken about Beador’s drinking, saying in a confessional on the August 30th episode: ‘Shannon says s**t, and then she wants to pretend that she didn’t do it, and if you can say things that are that f***king hurtful and not even remember you said it, you need to go f***king check yourself into rehab.’

Beador is in the early steps of moving forward amid the fallout of her DUI crash in Newport Beach last month, in which she drunkenly crashed her car into a home and was arrested for DUI alcohol and hit-and-run.

Beador has been enrolled in an ‘outpatient behavioral wellness program with an alcohol component,’ insiders close to Beador told TMZ on Monday.

Beador – who was arrested in the early morning hours of September 17 – will continue performing with her RHOC colleagues Tamra Judge, 56, and Vicki Gunvalson, 61, in their Tres Amigas comedy shows, which involve alcohol.

Beador will refrain from ‘drinking onstage’ at the shows, which include a a pre-show cocktail party, according to the insider.

The next Tres Amigas show is scheduled for November 16 at the Phoenix comedy venue Stand Up Live! Phoenix, where attendees are required to purchase a minimum of two drinks inside of the venue’s showroom.

Beador last month said she will pay for the damage she caused in the incident, which occurred after she was seen at a Newport Beach, California establishment called A Restaurant.

Beador’s attorney Michael Fell has touched base with the owner of the Newport Beach property the reality star damaged while drinking and driving, insiders told TMZ last month.

Beador is looking to ‘help make things right’ in compensating the property owner for the damage caused, the source said, and has said she will pay for any necessary repairs stemming from the incident.

Beador at the time was also looking at different options to receive treatment, but had not yet committed to a course of action, the source told the outlet.

While the situation remains ‘very fresh to her,’ the source told the outlet, Beador is focused on receiving professional help in the wake of the dangerous incident.

According to TMZ, Beador’s vehicle was seized by authorities, and she was was subsequently released without bond.

The Newport Beach Police Department told People that Beador had been ‘arrested at 1:17 a.m. on Sept. 17 after fleeing the scene from a collision that caused property damage.’

She was ‘booked for two misdemeanors – hit-and-run and DUI alcohol;’ and ‘released on a citation.’

Fell told DailyMail.com last month: ‘Shannon is extremely apologetic and remorseful.

‘We will be awaiting the official information on this case as it becomes available, and Shannon is prepared to accept full responsibility for her actions.’

Beador on September 19 was seen visiting with her ex-boyfriend John Janssen, who told DailyMail.com September 20, ‘We are friends, I care about her.’

Bravo personality Jeff Lewis, who is a friend of Beador’s, said that Beador ‘was injured’ and is ‘going to be recovering’ in the aftermath of the incident.

‘Shannon and I have been friends for a very long time,’ Lewis said on his SiriusXM show last month. ‘I was shocked – she called me yesterday and we talked for awhile – and I was shocked because I’ve never known Shannon to ever, ever drink and drive.

‘I will tell you she’s accepting full accountability. She is ashamed, she’s embarrassed. I personally, as her friend – cause people are like, “Oh she needs rehab,” “Oh she’s an alcoholic” – I don’t think Shannon is an alcoholic.’

He added: ‘I think she’s been going thorough a lot of personal struggles right now, and I think she has been leaning on alcohol – but I don’t think she’s an alcoholic.’

Lewis said that Beador is ‘going to be entering counseling’ following the accident and arrest.