Heather Dubrow Called ‘Bulls***’ on Shannon Beador’s Claims That She Was Disturbed by a ‘RHOC’ Incident
Though Heather Dubrow was not in the car with Shannon Storms Beador when Gretchen Rossi pranked her, she doesn’t believe Beador could have really fallen for it. In a recent episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Rossi set up a fake carjacking to prank her co-stars. Beador told Dubrow that she was terrified by the prank, but Dubrow didn’t buy it.
Gretchen Rossi pranked her fellow Housewives
On RHOC, Rossi invited the other Housewives to a self-defense class.
“I feel like we all need this, because we’ve all been around situations that can be sketch at times,” she said, per Bravo.
She also wanted to demonstrate situations where they might find self-defense helpful by pranking her co-stars.
“So Wes came up with the idea to do this like fake carjacking,” she said. “You never know when something like this is going to happen. And what is going to be your real and raw reaction? And that’s why it’s important to get trained on these things.”
She pranked Gina Kirschenheiter, Tamra Judge, Jenn Pedranti, and Beador.
Heather Dubrow didn’t believe Shannon Beador was afraid of a ‘RHOC’ prank
On The Real Housewives of Orange County After Show, Beador said the prank horrified her.
“I’m telling you, Heather, it was not okay,” she said. “It was not fun.”
Dubrow didn’t believe her, though.
“I call bulls***,” she said. “You knew.”
Beador insisted that she’d been frightened, though. As they drove into an industrial lot, she watched a man approach the car.
“All of a sudden, he’s at my face,” she said. “My heart was literally racing. I thought the blood was leaving my body.”
Though Dubrow still seemed dubious, Beador said she worried she was about to die.
“I was almost frozen, because I wanted to say to the driver, ‘Drive!’” she said. “But I thought, ‘He’s frozen in fear!’…I thought we were done.”
Luckily, it was all a prank. Though Dubrow doubted Beador was as frightened as she’d claimed, she admitted she wasn’t sure how she’d react in the same situation.
“Thank god it wasn’t me,” she said.
On camera, Shannon Beador seemed calmer than she told Heather Dubrow
In footage from the episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County, however, Beador doesn’t seem as terrified as she implied. When the faux carjacker approached the open window of the vehicle, Beador laughed in his face.
“Are you prepared to die over that phone?” he asked her. She replied, “Is this part of the show?”
Pendranti, who was in the car with her, said she was also struck by the way Beador handled the incident.
“All of a sudden, Shannon’s just calm, cool, collected,” she said. “Where did this Shannon come from?”
Beador explained that she seemed so calm because she felt frozen.
“I was functioning frozen. Is that such a thing?” she asked, adding, “I thought, ‘Can I kick his face? Oh, he’ll probably pull my ankle and pull me out of the car.’”
