Gina Kirschenheiter suggested that Shannon Beador should get professional help during an intense argument on Wednesday’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”
“Shannon says s–t, and then she wants to pretend that she didn’t do it, and if you can say things that are that f–king hurtful and not even remember you said it, you need to go f–king check yourself into rehab,” Kirschenheiter emotionally said in a confessional.
Kirschenheiter was specifically talking about Beador claiming she didn’t remember spreading an unfounded accusation that the former’s kids were almost sent to Child Protective Services in 2019.
The two women had gotten into an explosive fight after Beador had claimed to Jennifer Pedranti that she protected Kirschenheiter’s kids from being taken by Child Protective Services following her DUI arrest in 2019.
“So I will have to tell you, Gina took me aside evidently, um, Jenn told her you brought up CPS at your party? That CPS was coming for her kids?” Tamra Judge mumbled to Beador at a pumpkin carving event.
Beador, 59, immediately appeared shocked and denied saying it before screaming across the table, “Jenn, you said that I said CPS was coming for Gina’s kids? What are you talking about? I would never say that!”
However, in a flashback to four days earlier, Beador had indeed made the claims.
She alleged to Pedranti and Judge that, after her initial arrest, Kirschenheiter was “about to get arrested” again and that her kids “would’ve gone to Child Protective Service.” However, she had given Kirschenheiter the contact information of a friend who “called the D.A.” and prevented that from happening.
Despite the fact that she did bring up the allegation about Kirschenheiter’s kids at an earlier event, Beador continued vehemently denying it.
“Never said it! God strike me dead, that’s when I know I didn’t say something, OK? So stop stirring s–t up, Jenn. Jesus Christ,” Beador shouted across the table.
But, Pedranti stood firm and claimed that she didn’t “know this s–t,” since she wasn’t friends with either Beador or Kirschenheiter at the time.
“Unbelievable! Unbef–kinglievable!” Beador continued screaming.
Meanwhile, Judge claimed that she did “not remember Shannon saying that.”
“Shannon is super sideways about not saying it which tells me, you totally know you said it,” Pedranti said in a confessional, while Heather Dubrow also sarcastically added that it was a “good try, Shannon.”
Beador once again doubled down in her confessional that she did “not recall saying it.”
“My friends were there!” Beador screamed at Pedranti. “I would never say that! You know what I said, Gina? I said, ‘I’m not allowed to talk about anything good that I did for Gina.’ I said, ‘I’m not gonna talk about it.'”
Kirschenheiter, 39, admitted that she asked Beador not to talk about her arrest because that is “something that I would rather not lead with,” but Beador “clearly” did not respect her wishes by telling Pedranti.
“Maybe she Googled it,” Beador suggested, to which Pedranti denied doing so. She also refused that she was “making it up.”
Pedranti continued explaining that Beador claimed “there was some attorney that if she didn’t have the number, her kids could have been taken.”
“It is NOT true!” Kirschenheiter screamed at the top of her lungs. “Nobody gets a DUI and then their kids are taken from them! Let’s let this go!”
However, Beador doubled down that police were “gonna arrest you in the morning” and “they were scheduled to be there.”
“No they weren’t, they weren’t scheduled,” Kirschenheiter argued. “How do you know? Did you clock in with the cops?”
Shortly after her February 2019 arrest, Kirschenheiter failed to appear at her court hearing. At the time, her original attorney didn’t realize his request to postpone the date was denied and the police issued a bench warrant for her arrest.
Beador then swooped in and gave Kirschenheiter her “friend’s” contact information. That “friend” was well-known criminal defense attorney, Michael Fell, who got the warrant recalled.
“I have put my children before f–king everything, so to insinuate the authorities would remove my children, that they would see me as an unfit parent, is f–ked up,” Kirschenheiter teared up in a confessional.
Beador maintained that Pedranti “exaggerated” her comments and said it stresses her out “knowing people are talking about bulls–t.”
“I wasn’t doing it to hurt you or trash you,” Beador said to Kirschenheiter before asking her, “I’m fine, are you fine?”
Gina — who shares sons Nicholas and Luca and daughter Sienna Rose with ex-husband, Matt Kirschenheiter — admitted that she’s still “upset” but wants the fighting to “stop.”
The two women agreed, but it appears they have not kept that pact since they’ve only continued bashing each other both in the press and on social media.
“The Real Housewives of Orange County” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
