How RHOSLC Handled Jen Shah's Guilty Plea & Prison Sentencing

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RHOSLC's Jen Shah Sentenced to 6.5 Years successful Prison for Fraud

Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City has each led to this.

Jen Shah's federal fraud lawsuit drama yet culminated connected the Bravo reality show's Jan. 11 play finale, arsenic fans got an wrong look into the days starring up to Jen's blameworthy plea in July 2022.

Following the decision of Heather Gay's Bad Mormon publication screen uncover party, the occurrence flashes guardant 3 months and picks up with Jen and her hubby Sharrieff Shah (a.k.a. Coach) arriving successful New York City for her trial. Heather and co-star Meredith Marks showed their enactment by joining Jen successful the Big Apple.

While retired astatine luncheon with Meredith and Heather, Meredith's hubby Seth Marks asks the ladies if they've ever questioned Jen astir her guilt oregon innocence. "When your person looks you successful the eyes and says, 'I americium guiltless of this,'" Heather confidently responds, "you say, 'Then I volition enactment you successful immoderate way you're gonna take.'"

Though Heather promised to person Jen's backmost nary substance what, all that changed after Jen changed her archetypal not blameworthy plea to guilty. The occurrence features clips of Jen exiting a NYC courthouse, followed by a surface that reads, "On July 11, 2022, Jen Shah pleaded blameworthy to conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud. She has been sentenced to 6.5 years successful prison."

Back location successful Utah, Heather states that she feels "overwhelmed with grief" portion having luncheon with co-star Lisa Barlow, adding, "Grief that we are successful this situation, that there's victims, that our person is going distant for a decennary and she has a 16-year-old." Jen and Sharrieff share two sons, Sharrieff Jr., 28, and Omar, 16.

The concern has Lisa feeling conscionable arsenic emotional, arsenic she adds, "I didn't privation to judge that Jen was susceptible of doing immoderate of that."

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After Jen spent the full season—as good arsenic astir of season two—proclaiming her innocence, Heather has a mentation arsenic to wherefore Jen chose to plead blameworthy alternatively than combat her charges.

"I deliberation that Coach discovered what Jen was doing and that it was intolerable to explicate away," she speculates to Lisa. "There was thing that they could not get retired of, and it was a smoking weapon that said, 'Okay, the gig is up. You person to locomotion successful there, you person to accidental you did these things and you person to spell to situation for a decade.'"

"I deliberation she did it," Heather continues as Lisa holds backmost tears. "I deliberation she did it and I deliberation she's choking connected the words and she doesn't privation to accidental it. It's excessively big, and the penalties are excessively big."

Fans whitethorn person to hold a portion to perceive the cast's—including Whitney Rose and friends-of Angie Harrington, Angie Katsanevas and Danna Bui-Negrete—reaction to Jen's situation sentencing, arsenic the show's upcoming play 3 reunion was filmed earlier she was sentenced to six-and-a-half-years down bars connected Jan. 6.

Bravo has yet to denote erstwhile the RHOSLC play 3 reunion volition air.

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