“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jane Shah will not sit down with Bravo host Andy Cohen to discuss the ramifications of her prison sentence.
Convicted fraudster, 49, reveals ‘I wouldn’t do a 1:1 with Andy Cohen and Bravo’ Posted on Instagram on Thursday.
Shah asserted that she was missing out on this opportunity due to the network’s “alleged unwillingness to remove contractual provisions”.
The reality star said she wanted to avoid “distortions” being made about her “story, on any and all topics, before and during my participation” in “RHOSLC.”
Shah has starred in the hit unscripted series since its 2020 premiere. Season three has just finished airing with the first part of its reunion — not including the beleaguered Bravolebrity — airing on Wednesday.
“This specific 1-to-1 interview was not part of my reality TV contract on RHOSLC,” she continued. “I promised myself and my loving family that I would not allow this part of my life to be dramatized or inaccurately reported.”
Shah added that “my actions hurt a lot of people” and “the inability to control my narrative”.
She explained, “I’d rather remain silent and wait until I can accurately share my story than continue to have total lies and misrepresentations about me smeared across the headlines.”
Shah concluded her act by promising to speak publicly in the near future. “You will hear from me,” she wrote. “I will be sharing my story and this horrific part of my life very soon.”
Bravo had no comment when Page Six reached out.
Earlier this month, Cohen, 54, said on SiriusXM Radio Andy This He was looking forward to a possible interview with Shah.
“Hopefully I get to go talk to Jen this weekend,” the “Real Housewives” co-host said on Jan. 9.
“I hope I can do this sitting down [interview] With it in front of some cameras and we deliver it to you. I really hope I do.”
Cohen’s comments came a few days after Shah’s arrival Six and a half years behind bars to Organize a nationwide telemarketing schememostly targeting the frail elderly.
Shah – who was facing a maximum of 14 years old – issued an apology to the victims as well as her family after the New York City court hearing.
“I am so, so deeply sorry,” she said, sobbing as she looked at her husband, Sharif Shah, and their children, Sharif Jr. and Omar.
Jane alleged that she went against her core values of “humility, loyalty and respect” before admitting that her actions “hurt innocent people”.
She is scheduled to begin her sentence in a federal prison in Texas on February 17.
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