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John Janssen spoke of Shannon Beador‘s cash struggles and addressed claims of fat-shaming her throughout an interview earlier this week.
Whereas additionally gushing over his relationship with Alexis Bellino, 47, teasing her potential return to the present, and defending the timeline of his $75,000 lawsuit in opposition to Shannon, the 62-year-old Actual Housewives of Orange County star detailed the monetary assist he gave to his former girlfriend.
“Along with the 380,000, in her two occasions of want, one the place it was informed to me that it simply was a cashflow situation and that she would pay me again in two months, she wanted cash for her facelift. I wired her $40,000 after which a promissory observe thereafter,” John recalled throughout an interview with Leisure Tonight. “She obtained irate on the promissory observe and despatched me a protracted e-mail stating how a lot cash she made and the way, after all, she would pay me again, and that this was a mortgage between a boyfriend and girlfriend. So Shannon [knew] it was a mortgage [and had] by no means made any makes an attempt to pay it again.”
In accordance with John, he additionally loaned Shannon cash after their 2022 break up.
“[She] couldn’t pay her payments. She was crying to me on the telephone and I stated, ‘Look Shannon, I’m gonna enable you.’ I stated, ‘Shannon you know the way risky our relationship is.’ And I stated, ‘Even when you come to hate me, it’s worthwhile to pay me again.’ And he or she cried and stated, ‘In fact I’ll, John,’ and he or she didn’t do this,” he defined.
Though John has instructed that many lies have been informed about him on RHOC, the one that actually bothered him was the declare that he spoke in poor health of Shannon’s look.
“I might attempt to make her really feel lovely with my phrases on virtually a every day foundation. I actually, on my kids’s life, by no means, not one time, stated any disparaging remark to her about her appears,” he insisted. “And Shannon is aware of that.”
As for his relationship with Alexis, John stated it’s a “nice a part of his life.”
“I’ve actually by no means been happier. Lex and I, we’re so meant for one another. We’re by no means aside. Zero hiccups. It was meant to be,” he declared.
Concerning the suggestion that he stated the identical issues to Shannon that he’s saying to Alexis now, John clarified that the relationships are very completely different.
“That’s so bitter and never true,” he acknowledged. “I used to be with [Shannon] in both a girlfriend or good friend relationship for 4 years. I didn’t suggest to her. Alexis is the true deal for me and I shall be along with her perpetually.”
John then confirmed that their marriage ceremony date was set and denied that it might be filmed.
Whereas John isn’t too eager on Alexis returning to RHOC for season 19, he vowed to be “supportive” of her if that’s what she chooses and likewise had a message for Shannon.
“I hope Shannon is really getting the assistance that she wants. It’s vastly disappointing to me that after listening to that she virtually hit my daughter that she has not reached out to say, ‘Oh my god, I’m so sorry.’ As a matter of reality, her message was anger when she heard that,” he defined. “[Not remembering] is a sample that’s not acceptable. I really hope the perfect for her. I hope she does get in a spot the place these sorts of issues don’t occur, and she will be able to actually discover love and happiness.”
“I don’t want her in poor health will,” he added.
Trying again on the submitting of his since-settled lawsuit in opposition to Shannon, which he filed as cameras started rolling on season 18, John stated that whereas it was not misplaced on him the way it appeared, he was pressured into the state of affairs because of the statute of limitations.”
“I attempted to not do something legally. I reached out to the CFO a number of occasions, who handles one hundred pc of her funds and who I do know properly saying, ‘We’ve obtained to get this documented. I do know Shannon can’t pay me again proper now,’ I began off saying, ’ Let’s simply get it on paper and if she begins paying me a yr from now, I’m good with that.’ With none attorneys with out something, I stated, ‘Let’s doc this. It must be put down on paper and a few form of a plan that’s cheap,” he revealed. “I began out that means after which nothing.”
After Shannon failed to reply, John determined to take authorized motion in opposition to her.
Since John went public with Alexis in late 2023, months after he and Shannon gave the impression to be again collectively, some have suspected an overlap within the relationships. Nevertheless, in response to John, he and Shannon break up in November 2022 and by no means reconciled their romance.
“We broke up the day after Thanksgiving in 2022. We didn’t speak or actually see one another for six months … after which she requested to fulfill me for dinner,” he defined. “We had a pleasant time so we began a friendship and began hanging out. Inevitably, you fall into some outdated patterns and the outdated patterns of the connection type of got here again however we by no means obtained again collectively.”
As John started relationship Alexis months later, she started filming the present and, unsurprisingly, turned the villain of the season.
“We anticipated her to be considerably of a villain simply not the acute it went to,” John admitted. “I informed her I didn’t need to do it … Coming again as a good friend was in hindsight, a mistake. Since you’re very restricted on what’s proven … There was a lot not noted that a number of what she appears like on TV shouldn’t be Alexis. She didn’t come on there to destroy Shannon the way in which folks suppose she did. She wished to clear up some lies.”
All through his relationship with Alexis, many have suspected their relationship would finish, simply as John’s did with Shannon, on account of John’s potential mistreatment of Shannon. Nevertheless, John doesn’t consider he did something improper to his former girlfriend.
“What have I achieved, aside from recognizing it was a poisonous relationship and doing us each a favor of ending the connection, what have I achieved?” he requested.
Even concerning his authorized motion in opposition to Shannon, John questioned, “Who’s the dangerous man in that? The one who knew they had been loans, took the cash within the time of want, promising them to pay them again, after which mendacity to everyone, saying they had been presents whereas persevering with to say she paid for all the things?”
“It’s complicated that I’m the dangerous man,” he famous.
