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Scheana Shay is no stranger to sharing all sides of her life with fans.
Even the moments that aren’t good as gold. But when writing her new memoir, My Good Side, out now, she had reservations about divulging the painful experience of learning, more than two years after the fact, that her husband Brock Davies had been unfaithful while she was pregnant with their daughter Summer Moon, 4.
While the Vanderpump Rules star was ready to gloss over those difficult memories, she credits Brock with encouraging her to lay it all out there.
“I read the first draft out loud to him, and he was like, ‘Absolutely not. That is not going in the book,’” Scheana, 40, told E! News in an exclusive interview. “And I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ And he goes, ‘If you’re gonna put it in the book, tell the whole story.’”
In fact, beyond emphasizing that she “needed to say it all,” Brock opted to not read the chapter in question until just weeks before publication.
“I offered for him to read it before the final draft was due,” Scheana explained, “and he said, ‘No, it is your story. I don’t want to have any input on feeling one sort of way. You tell it however you want to, and I will have to deal with that.’”
Indeed, as the “Good as Gold” singer recalled, Brock’s initial reaction to revisiting that time through her book was, “‘Well, that was a tough read.’”
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“He’s just been so apologetic since he read it—even more because he didn’t realize the magnitude of it,” she continued. “It’s been a couple years now, we’ve worked through this. We’ve been in couples therapy, but he just didn’t realize how much it affected me because I do kind of skirt over things and sweep them under the rug, and it was just like, ‘We’re not going to talk about this right now.’”
After all, at the time Brock, 34, confessed to his 2020 indiscretions in spring 2023, Scheana and the rest of the cast were still in the throes of Scandoval. And by the time season 11 of Vanderpump Rules began filming, she and Brock—who tied the knot in 2021—were working through his betrayal away from the cameras.
“I don’t think our marriage would have survived if that was our story season 11,” Scheana noted. “I needed more time. The thing with reality TV is, yes, we sign up to put our entire life out there—that’s on my timeline. I don’t have to put it out there just because we just started filming. I need some more time to process this because that’s my reality.”
She is also acutely aware of how many viewers see her, detailing how she imagined it would have been perceived if she had revealed Brock’s infidelity so soon after Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix’s nine-year relationship ended over Tom’s affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss.
“I already knew how it would go,” Scheana posited. “The audience would say I’m trying to make Scandoval about me. I’m trying to be Ariana. I’m trying to get on Dancing with the Stars. I’m trying all of these things—and I’m not doing that.”
Knowing that she would have to share the news eventually, for her, season 12 of Vanderpump Rules would have been the right time—though ultimately that iteration will see a new group of SURvers taking center stage.
So, without another season of reality TV in her immediate future, Scheana and Brock were able to break the news to their loved ones on their own terms. As she put it: “I had processed it, I had forgiven him, I had chosen to stay so I think it made it easier for them.”
That’s not to say the conversations weren’t difficult and there wasn’t anger and heartbreak from those close to her.
“But overall, everyone’s just been extremely supportive,” Scheana said, “because Brock has proven himself to everyone in the last few years of what an amazing partner he is to me, what an amazing father he is to Summer Moon and what an amazing person he is with all of their kids.”
While there was a period where divorce was certainly on the table, the reality star made the “tougher” decision to stay and ultimately reached the point where she was able to find forgiveness. And this is in large part because of Summer Moon.
“I am glad that she gave me a reason to fight because although our marriage isn’t perfect, I think Brock is the perfect person for me,” she stressed. “He challenges me in ways I’ve never been challenged before, which is so frustrating at times, but it’s because he knows what I’m capable of and this life that we’ve built together.”
And though she believes there’s a good chance she would have walked away if he had come clean at the time, Scheana sees learning the infidelity years later as giving her a better understanding of what led Brock—dad to two kids in Australia from a previous relationship—to making those decisions.
“I had to calm down and really look at our life and look at why he made that mistake, why he felt like he didn’t deserve a second chance at a family,” the Scheananigans podcast host explained. “And my heart kind of broke for him and for us together, because it was just so sad that he felt like he wasn’t good enough because of his past and that he didn’t deserve us.”
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Scheana Shay Truly Didn’t Know Eddie Cibrian Was Married
It’s fitting that then-21-year-old Scheana Shay met 12 years older Eddie Cibrian waitressing at an L.A. cigar bar because much of their romance was smoke and mirrors.
Calling the actor “the sweetest, funniest, most charismatic, consummate gentleman I’d ever met,” in her 2025 memoir My Good Side, Scheana noted he “never wore a wedding ring” despite being married to Brandi Glanville, mom to his two sons. “I assumed he was single,” she wrote, adding she didn’t realize he was famous “because I never thought to look him up.”
While they weren’t exclusive they had “a weekly booty call” starting at the end of 2006. And though another club member eventually told her he was married, “I didn’t want to believe it,” she said. “We were out together all the time in public, so I didn’t feel like some secret mistress!”
After discovering the truth, she cut him off, only to reconnect six months later. “He apologized profusely,” she recounted, and “told me that he and Brandi were separated.”
Back on, Eddie gifted her a set of diamond earrings, confessed his love and whisked her away on a snowboarding trip that she said “seemed like a huge step in our relationship.”
Then—in March 2009—she saw his affair with LeAnn Rimes splashed across magazine covers. “It did piss me off that Eddie never had the balls to have a final conversation,” she wrote. “But I got over it, and I haven’t seen Eddie since.”
Scheana Shay Romanced Her Share of Celebrities
As she was romancing Eddie, Scheana was also seeing how things grew with Desperate Housewives gardener Jesse Metcalfe. “We would order in dinner with his parents at his house, and—when we were alone—he would play the guitar and serenade me with songs like ‘Hey There Delilah,'” she detailed. “It felt like I was living a real-life fantasy with this guy I’d watched on TV and in movies for years.”
She also said she was “casually involved” with John Mayer: “I kept it so quiet because I wanted to continue hanging out with him. Unfortunately, since it wasn’t always just the two of us, one of my girlfriends opened her big mouth.” When that pal spilled the truth, “He didn’t want to speak to me or see me anymore,” she wrote. “For all he knew, I was the one blabbing about the details of our hangouts.”
But while she’s spilling…she said her list of conquests include: “Shemar Moore, Josh Hopkins, Shane West, Jesse McCartney, JC Chasez, Adrian Grenier, Ricardo Chavira, William Tell, two actors from The Notebook, and a few NFL, NBA, and MLB players, to name a few.”
Scheana Shay Learned Early on How Fake Reality TV Can Be
Back when Scheana’s future was still unwritten, she made an uncredited cameo on The Hills in 2009.
Doing a scene at Hollywood club H.Wood, she was stunned when pal Stacie Adams was “dubbed a ‘homewrecker'” for flirting with Spencer Pratt, while she and another friend were “called ‘wh–es’ and ‘sluts'”
But none of it was real, Scheana noted, recounting how Heidi Montag pulled up in a car next to her after they wrapped. “She was so sweet, nothing like the mean girl MTV Heidi who was edited and packaged for the masses,” wrote Scheana. “She said, ‘Hey guys, sorry I had to be mean to you, it was all just for the show. You know that, right?'”
Why Scheana Shay Feels Lisa Vanderpump Set Her Up
But the true reality TV masterclass came courtesy of Lisa Vanderpump, who tapped Scheana to work SUR’s launch party, filmed for a January 2012 episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Though Lisa invited RHOBH castmate Brandi to attend, “I had zero suspicion that I was walking into a setup for a spin-off,” Scheana said of Lisa manufacturing a segue to her own Vanderpump Rules series, “nor that it would ultimately position me as a fool on national television.”
Lisa pushed her in Brandi’s direction, instructing her to tray-pass hors d’oeuvres. When informed about the romance with Eddie, Scheana wrote, “Lisa acted as though she was shocked.”
Fast-forward to recently—after VPR‘s latest cast turnover—when Scheana was talking to a producer. “We were chatting about how the show started and they said, ‘Lisa was worried that the Disney girl who had a connection to Eddie wasn’t going to participate,'” Scheana wrote. “They were talking about me directly to my face. In other words, outing Lisa and gifting me the one thing I’d always suspected—that Lisa knew about my affair with Eddie all along. And she used it to launch VPR.”
Scheana Shay Says Michael Shay Was High at Their Wedding
They should have been the best days of her life. Instead, less than two years into her marriage to high school pal Michael Shay, Scheana asked for a divorce on camera—fed up with his ongoing Aderall use and the emotional affairs she said he had behind her back.
And she admitted her feet began cooling even before she walked down the aisle in 2014.
“Sadly, my wedding night was also when I started to really wonder if my new husband had an addiction,” she wrote. Having asked him not to drink at all during their reception, she was pleased to see him abstain.
But back at one of the casitas they’d rented for their bridal party, “I noticed that his eyes were completely glazed over, and he was unsteady on his feet,” she detailed. Weeks later, she put the pieces together when castmate Tom Sandoval “offered us these little blue pills, which he said were Ecstasy.”
While she immediately refused, “Shay, appearing perplexed, said, ‘Wait, that looks like the pill you gave me at the wedding. I thought it was Adderall.’ We were both in shock. Shay didn’t intend to get f–ked up that night. He just wanted an Adderall to stay up later.” (E! News has reached out to Tom and Michael’s reps for comment but has not heard back.)
Scheana Shay Was Demoted on Vanderpump Rules—Twice
Despite, uh, SUR-ving up the drama during her first seven seasons on Vanderpump Rules, Scheana learned she was being demoted to “friend of” status right before making an appearance on Watch What Happens Live.
Confiding in host Andy Cohen, “I was sobbing,” she recounted. “He looked at me sympathetically and said, ‘Listen, we’re a few minutes from air. I need you to get your s–t together, make great TV and show everyone that you deserve your spot on the show.”
She got that dreaded call again ahead of season 10, though that time around Scheana blamed her romance with husband Brock Davies, claiming his past—including an admission that he once slapped his ex-wife and had a strained relationship with their kids Eli and Winter—”resonated poorly with the audience.”
Explained Scheana, “It was fine if he wanted to be part of group stuff, but they just wouldn’t be giving him call times.”
In other words, she said, “It felt like a total f–k-you.”
Yes, Vanderpump Rules Editors Took Some Liberties
The way Scheana saw it, Vanderpump Rules producers sometimes went out of their way to show her bad side. Referencing since-fired editor Bri Dellinger‘s confession that she efforted to find her “most cringeworthy moments and piece them together,” said Scheana, she came with receipts.
The most egregious example came when Scheana was prompted to talk to Stassi Schroeder‘s then-15-year-old brother Nikolai Schroeder at Stassi’s engagement party.
“I was teasing him, as I would a younger brother, thinking nothing of it,” Scheana wrote, noting that she asked him about school, sports and potential girlfriends. “That is, until the final episode made it look like I was hitting on Nikolai. I was shocked; he was fifteen.”
Scheana Shay Had a Relationship With a Mystery Woman
When Scheana met a woman she identified only as “DD” at 2019’s Stagecoach Music Festival, “We had this instant connection.” Bonding over a mutual love for Sam Hunt, they continued to kick it back in L.A., kissing at TomTom one night.
For the next few months, said Scheana, “It became this weird thing where we would get drunk, make out, and tell people we were dating.”
The situation left Scheana confused, wondering if she was bisexual, lonely and over men or simply attracted to this one woman.
“It felt like more than friendship but not enough to admit or commit to a relationship,” said Scheana, sharing that she worried what her conservative relatives and VPR viewers would think. “Part of me wishes I’d expressed to DD how I was feeling, to see if she felt the same, but the fear of rejection outweighed finding out what we could be for me.”
Then they met Brock at another musical festival that September. Though he initially hit on DD, she wrote, “their personalities just didn’t click,” leaving things to snap into place with him and Scheana.
Madly in love following a November trip to Australia and Bali, the pair were out with DD, “and, just like old times, she kissed me,” said Scheana, describing how Brock lost his cool. “He said, ‘You’re my girlfriend now. You don’t do that s–t. You guys had a thing and that ends now or I’m gone.'”
Scheana Shay Almost Died Giving Birth to Summer Moon
Scheana revealed in October 2020 that she was expecting a rainbow baby with Brock—daughter Summer Moon Honey Davies—mere months after she suffered a miscarriage. Though they weren’t trying, said Scheana, “let’s just say Brock could work on his reflexes a bit.”
Induced just nine days before filming began on season 9, Scheana experienced a dangerous blood pressure spike 15 hours into labor and feared the worst.
“There I was, selfishly trying to have this baby so I could film a TV show,” she wrote, “and her heart rate was dropping.”
Unaware she had a severe form of preeclampsia called HELLP syndrome, “It was a miracle that I was induced,” noted Scheana. “Had I waited and given birth naturally, the doctors might not have caught my preeclampsia, and I could have had a stroke and died.”
Unfortunately, her worries didn’t end after Summer arrived “limp and blue,” a common occurrence when moms are put on a magnesium drip. Eventually diagnosed with postpartum OCD, Scheana credits therapy with helping her work through issues like the decades she spent following “precisely 420 people on Instagram,” or her fear of taking Summer to Disneyland alone.
Said Scheana, “I continue to work on different forms of exposure therapy in an attempt to overcome my demons.”
The Vanderpump Rules Cast Faked This One Scene
Raise a glass to the ingenuity that delivered a drama-filled end to season nine. With the entire cast gathered in California’s Santa Ynez Valley for James Kennedy and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss‘ engagement party “the plan was for me and Brock to have a secret elopement while we were there,” Scheana said, noting that since she’d already had the filmed-for-TV over-the-top nuptials with Shay, “all I cared about was marrying Brock.”
And, perhaps, ensuring a 10th season. While she eventually nixed the plan, not wanting to upstage the other bride-to-be, “We were all under a lot of pressure to produce an explosive finale,” Scheana explained, “and we knew all of our jobs were kind of on the line if we didn’t deliver.”
So she, Lala Kent, Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney hatched a plan for Lala to tell James and Rachel that Scheana was trying to co-opt their big day.
“And, as a result of this bombshell, drama would ensue and hopefully guarantee another season,” said Scheana. “Job security, check!”
After the blowup, “I went back to the hotel in the same car as Brock and Lala,” revealed Scheana. “We’d all been fighting and then we were peacefully driving away together.”
No, Scheana Shay Did Not Punch Rachel “Raquel” Leviss
After a press day in March 2023, Rachel and Schena were at a New York City bar, when Rachel came walking out with Tom’s then-girlfriend Ariana on speaker.
When Scheana asked what was happening, Rachel “looked at me blankly and confessed, ‘Tom Sandoval and I have been having an affair for seven months. Ariana just found out.'”
Seeing red, Scheana hurled Rachel’s phone into a gutter. When Rachel grabbed her wrist, “I pushed her off me,” Scheana detailed. “She came back toward me, so I shoved her again.”
Back at the hotel, “I called Ariana and said, ‘I pushed that b–ch and threw her phone in the street,'” said Scheana. “Ariana had me on speakerphone and Tom could hear from the background. Apparently, he thought I said, I punched that b–ch. I’ll admit there were a lot of emotions that night, but I did not punch Raquel.”
Which is why she was upset when Rachel’s “story changed,” said Scheana. Noting how Rachel filed a police report in L.A. and a temporary restraining order (which was later dropped), Scheana wrote, “This girl was willing to lie about me, put my livelihood and reputation in jeopardy, as well as expose herself to serious legal issues for filing a false report, just so that the media would go easier.” (For her part, Rachel said the TRO was “intended to provide a cooling-off period after I was punched, but I didn’t want to continue with the permanent RO.”)
Brock Davies Cheated While Scheana Shay Was Pregnant With Summer Moon
While the Scandoval storyline dominated all of season 10, another tale of infidelity was happening closer to home. Amid rumors Brock was hooking up with Rachel, detailed Scheana, “He was afraid that something that actually was true might surface, and it was best that I heard it directly from him.”
And so in the spring of 2023, Scheana learned that Brock—who was “scared about being a father again,” she wrote—carried on a brief affair with an old friend while Scheana was carrying his child.
“Unable to contain my rage,” she shared, “I slapped him and threw a Rubik’s cube in his direction, which he dodged.” Once she got past that all-consuming anger, though, Scheana began to work on solving the problems in her union.
She admitted she likely wouldn’t have married Brock had she known the truth and if she didn’t have Summer “my reaction would have been very different.”
Still, “When push came to shove, I had a choice to make,” Scheana detailed. “Option A: I could give up on Brock and our family, but I would be throwing our life away, fracturing my family, and hanging on to the hatred that was eating me alive. Or Option B: I could choose to forgive. I could begin to let go of the animosity and resentment and keep moving forward.”
Scheana Hasn’t Made Any Money Off Of “Good As Gold”
As it turns out, Scheana’s infamous single isn’t quite as good as gold. Though the certified bop has been performed on VPR several times and was used in an Uber Eats ad, “To this day, I haven’t earned a penny off of ‘Good As Gold,’ aside from vinyl sales,” the singer shared. Beause early on in her career, her then-manager set her up with his entertainment lawyer.
“Looking back, it probably wasn’t in my best interest to share legal representation, but I didn’t know any better at the time,” Scheana explained. She trusted him when he instructed her to sign some paperwork, calling it “all standard.”
However, she wrote, “Apparently one of those documents signed over the rights to ‘Good As Gold’ to him. I don’t presently have access to copies of that contract, if I ever did, and my attempts over the years to retain rights over my work or receive copies of our original contract have been unsuccessful. Maybe that will change now.”
