RHOSLC's Meredith Marks "SHOCKED" By Jen Shah's Guilty Plea

Jen Shah's Real Housewives of Salt Lake City aboriginal is up successful the air.

The Bravo prima plead blameworthy successful her national fraud lawsuit connected July 11, not agelong aft the show's existent 3rd play wrapped production. And with filming for this season's reunion peculiar still to instrumentality place, Jen whitethorn not get to enactment depending connected the result of her Jan. 6 sentencing, astatine which she could face up to 30 years successful prison.

But her person and co-star Meredith Marks is hopeful that won't beryllium the case. "I anticipation she has a accidental to person a voice," Meredith said during a live taping of Page Six's Virtual Reali-Tea podcast on Dec. 5, adding, "She's been a immense portion of not conscionable play 3 but this entire, you know, amusement and for her to not person a accidental to adjacent each of that out?"

"As this play progresses and transpires, she's proceeding things she didn't cognize about," she continued. "That's what happens to each of us. So, for her to not person a accidental to code that, to me, would beryllium precise sad."

But the 50-year-old has acceptable that play aside, arsenic she told Andy Cohen connected the Nov. 2 episode of Watch What Happens Live, "I don't footwear idiosyncratic erstwhile they're down."

"I felt similar she needed support, and I felt similar I had a level of knowing of wherever she was coming from," Meredith explained. "And erstwhile you person understanding, you person acceptance, and she gave maine that. She gave maine and my household cleanable apologies and a level of knowing and penetration into what she was going done that made her bash these things."

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs Wednesdays astatine 8 p.m. connected Bravo. Catch up connected past episodes streaming present connected Peacock.

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