Shannon Beador it’s finished working with Alexis Bellino – but would Shannon really let Alexis stop her from returning to The Real Housewives of Orange County?

Us every week caught up with Shannon, 60, at Emily SimpsonIt is RHOC meeting watch party on Thursday, November 14, supporting The center of the innocentand she clarified her past comments that she was undecided about her future on the show.

“I was sure Nick Viall“, and he said, ‘What will you do if Alexis is back on the show?’ And my response was, ‘I will never do Alexis again,'” she recalled. “If they choose to bring Alexis back on the show, enjoy it, but I’m not filming with you.”

Shannon emphasized: “I never said I wouldn’t come back. I might have done that in my third or fourth year and I haven’t done it since.

The reality star explained: “I’m grateful for this work. I am,” adding that fans shouldn’t worry about his departure from the show.

“Oh, absolutely, I (back). I would be grateful to come back,” said Shannon We while hanging out at Five Vines Wine Bar in San Juan Capistrano, California.

While Shannon is ready to learn more RHOCshe reiterated: “But if Alexis Bellino comes back, sorry, I won’t be there (for her).” She hinted that her reason would become clear if fans “just kept watching the reunion.”

Shannon and Alexis – who returned to RHOC as a “friend” for season 18 after released in 2013 – headbutts all season. Part of their feud came from Alexis dating Shannon’s ex-boyfriend John Janssenfrom which she separated in 2022.

Alexis and John, 64, became an item in 2023 and in August they announced they were engaged. While Alexis threw her relationship in Shannon’s face on multiple occasions, Shannon’s trial with John is what really brought their fight to a head.

Shannon and John are fighting over $75,000, which John claims Shannon refused to pay him after already paying for his facelift. Shannon initially agreed to give him half the money, but changed her mind when she learned John had damning footage from his drunk driving arrest in September 2023. (Alexis threatened to show the videos in an “unseen” scene from RHOC.)

Shannon said during the second part of RHOC meetingaired Thursday, which said she agreed to pay John $70,000 but said he wouldn’t sign a non-disparagement clause, so she didn’t make the deal.

“John never talked about it. So there’s no extortion,” Alexis argued in the episode, referencing her own “moment of weakness” when discussing the videos.

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She claimed it was Shannon who brought up the videos, telling her: “You need to go back to your emails and check the truth.” Because you have a really strange relationship with the truth.

Although Shannon and Alexis’ feud doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon, she’s not the only Housewife to have issues with Alexis after season 18.

Emily, 48, told exclusively We at the viewing party she was “bored the first time filming with her”. She remembers Alexis showing up “two hours late” to go to the Balboa Bay Club to shoot, then having a “nervous breakdown” in her house when she spotted chocolate on her skirt.

“By the time I got in the car with her, I was done,” Emily recalled, saying Alexis was “very mean to the production and it really discouraged me.”

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After this exchange, Emily said We she had “a very bad taste in her mouth” which was made worse when Alexis “brought receipts for dinner” and then pursued Shannon (along with John).

“It all seemed so premeditated and planned and methodical, and then bringing up the videos and using them in some sort of blackmail when she didn’t immediately agree to pay the full amount,” Emily continued. “I don’t want to be on the show with someone like that. I think there must be limits. It gets dirty on it Housewives sometimes and that’s where I draw the line.

Gina Kirschenheiter I couldn’t agree more, saying We Thursday that her issues with Alexis stemmed from her issues with John.

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“I never really liked John. It’s hard. I know Alexis likes to defend him, but my issues with John weren’t just from things Shannon said,” Gina, 40, exclusively revealed. “She likes to say that. She likes to say, “Oh, that was just stuff Shannon said about John” and that’s not true.

Gina explained that John had “disrespected” her, both to her face and behind her back. “You can say it’s ‘I’m defending my girlfriend,’ but that’s not how you defend your girlfriend,” she said. “To me, it just shows who you are.”

Gina claimed that all John did was “try to make this relationship worse” between her and Alexis. “I don’t like it and I don’t play this game,” she concluded.

The Real Housewives of Orange County airs on Bravo Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET. Stream old episodes anytime on Peacock.

With reporting by Mike Vulpo