RHOC’s Shannon Beador Explains Why She Shared Drunk Driving Selfie

Shannon Beador takes responsibility for his DUI arrest — and that includes sharing a selfie of his lowest moment with his girlfriend The Real Housewives of Orange County costars.

Beador said People In an interview published Friday, July 19, she said she was “shocked” to discover the photo and called the whole experience “really traumatic for me.”

“I didn’t want to see myself that way, and I didn’t want other people to see me that way either,” she added. “I honestly thought I would never show it to anyone.”

Beador, 60, shared the photo with another housewife Heather Dubrow in a moment captured for the Bravo show’s 18th season. Beador wanted the photo to be shared around the world so his costars and viewers could understand the moment that changed his life.

“When someone Googles me, this is what they’ll probably see for the rest of my life: my face covered in blood from the night that was the lowest point of my entire life,” she told the outlet. “But I wanted to be able to talk about everything that happened.”

Beador was arrested in September in Newport Beach, California, after she struck a residence with her car and left the vehicle. She was charged with hit-and-run and driving under the influence and sentenced to three years of probation. In an exclusive interview with We Weekly Earlier this month, she said her arrest “forced her to look at her life” and “make changes.”

“I have a lot of work to do. It’s probably going to last my whole life, but I feel good about myself,” she said. “I want to have a relationship with myself.”

At the same time, Beador avoids referring to his accident as fate, saying We that she had been incredibly lucky that no one had been hurt except herself.

“I don’t want to take what happened to me lightly and say, ‘God had a plan,'” she said. “Because I could have hurt someone.”

In his interview with PeopleBeador said she “deserved to be hurt” in her accident.

“I made a very stupid choice,” she said. “I could have killed someone.”

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