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Scheana Shay explained why she kept her husband Brock Davies’ affair a secret for two years
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In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir My Good Side, the reality star revealed how she learned of Davies’ “brief affair” while she was pregnant with the couple’s daughter, Summer Moon
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“There are some things that I haven’t been as forthcoming about, or maybe that I never corrected the narrative on,” she said ahead of the affair revelation
Scheana Shay is revealing why she held back from revealing her husband Brock Davies’ affair.
Nearly a week before an excerpt from the Vanderpump Rules alum’s upcoming memoir My Good Side was published, detaling how Davies confessed to being unfaithful to his wife, the reality star explained why she hadn’t been forthcoming about some aspects of her life until writing the book.
When asked what the “the biggest shock” from the new book will be during the July 4 episode of her Scheananigans podcast, Shay, 40, teased “a couple moments that will really surprise people.”
“There’s a lot about my past, my family, my earlier life experiences that I think the readers will be shocked by,” she added. “I think people think they know everything about me, but after reading this book, you will, because you 100% do not right now. I can promise you that.”
She noted that fans know “a side of me from reality TV, you know a side of me from my podcast, my YouTube, you put it all together, you’ve maybe got, I don’t know, let’s say 80% of me, but the book will give you the rest.”
While seemingly alluding to the affair news, she explained, “There are some things that I haven’t been as forthcoming about, or maybe that I never corrected the narrative on.”
“Never shared my side of the story because I’ve been afraid, or thought, if I tell people what I’m actually going through, then they’re gonna think that I’m trying to take the attention off what someone else is going through, and make it about me,” she shared.
The television personality said “that perception of me” caused her to hold back “at times from opening up on the show or on the podcast, because everyone always says, ‘Oh, you make everything about you.’”
However, My Good Side offered Shay the opportunity to give her side of the story unfiltered. She said, “In my book, I get to make it about me, and you’ll hear the sides of my story that I have never shared until now in the book, in my own words, with my control of the narrative for once.”
One of those revelations was Shay candidly writing about how she learned of her husband’s affair as rumors swirled about him sleeping with her former costar, Rachel Leviss, amid the fallout of her cheating scandal with Tom Sandoval in 2023.
“I remained in a state of paralyzed shock as he confessed that he’d cheated on me two years prior, when we were living in San Diego during the pandemic, while I was pregnant with Summer,” Shay shared in a excerpt published by Glamour on July 10, adding that she was left feeling “completely sick to my stomach.”
She recalled Davies “admitted that — at the time — he was scared about being a father again, specifically about whether he even deserved to be, and he chose to deal with it by sleeping with someone else.”
“I use the word ‘chose’ because it was very much a conscious decision. No one twisted his arm or dragged him into bed,” she shared.
According to Shay, Davies had run into the woman, whom “he had known since before we met,” while outside his gym, F45 Training East Hillcrest in San Diego, Calif. She added, “After reconnecting, he said they began a brief affair.”
PEOPLE has reached out to a representative for Davies for comment.
Davies and Shay welcomed their daughter Summer Moon in April 2021 and married in Cancun in August 2022.
After the headline-making cheating scandal between Sandoval and Leviss, Shay revealed that she “obviously” asked Davies if he had crossed the line with the former pageant queen.
“I absolutely did question him because after all the Tom and Raquel stuff, which I didn’t think was true, I obviously had to ask,” she said on an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in April 2023.
“He said, ‘Absolutely not,’ but, as a follow-up question [I asked], ‘Did she ever try?’ As much as I trust my husband, I don’t trust [Leviss],” she added. “He said no. He said he never put that energy off, and we know Sandoval did.”
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My Good Side hits shelves on July 22 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.
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