Before Jen Shah, the troubled “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star, enters federal prison, Andy Cohen wants to reach a resolution with her.
According to @bravobygays, the 54-year-old “Housewives” boss remarked on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy on Monday, “I’m hoping to go talk to Jen this weekend.”
He continued, “I’m hopeful that I can sit down with her in front of some cameras and present that to you. “I really want to do that,” she said.
Cohen’s remarks come only a few days after Shah, 49, was given a six-and-a-half-year prison term for operating a statewide telemarketing operation that mostly targeted older people.
Bravolebrity, who was facing a maximum of 14 years in prison, apologized to the victims and her family after the court hearing in New York City.
She looked to her husband Sharrieff Shah and their kids Omar and Sharrieff Jr. with tears in her eyes and said, “I am terribly and deeply sorry.”
Before admitting that her actions “damaged innocent people,” Jen admitted to acting “against” her core beliefs of “humility, loyalty, and respect.”
She had planned to give up on February 17. As “RHOSLC” Season 2 was being filmed in March 2021, a reality star was arrested. She amended her plea in July 2022 after initially pleading not guilty.
Her eventual admission appears to have cost her a spot at the Season 3 reunion of “Salt Lake City,” which was taped in Manhattan last month.
On December 16, Jen shared with her Instagram followers the choice she had made after talking with Bravo about the subjects she would and would not be able to discuss during filming.
She added that the network “found this unsatisfactory and said they expected to explore this’storyline’” despite her being “clear with Bravo that out of respect for the courts and a standing judicial order, I would not be in a position to discuss anything relevant to my legal case or sentencing.”
Shah continued, “That expectation has no respect for the welfare of myself or my family. In light of legal counsel, I won’t be attending the reunion.
Cohen suggested that the network had severed connections with Jen after her guilty plea back in October at BravoCon 2022.
He responded to curious fans, “I guess that was kind of the end of, you know, the engagement there once we concluded [filming for Season 3] and she pled guilty.
Over the course of the three days, Cohen also sowed the idea of a one-on-one with Jen. But because I have a lot of questions for her, I hope to sit down with her and speak to her at some point on camera, he continued.