Real Housewives of Salt Lake CitystarJen Shahis opening up about how severe her marital issues with husbandSharrieff Shahhad gotten.
On Sunday’s season 2 premiere, Jen had a candid conversation withLisa Barlow— at the Shah family’s new chalet — about the woes in her marriage. Jen, 47, admitted that while she was now doing okay, the last six months had been “really rough” for her.
“I thought that my entire world was ending. Six months ago, Sharrieff and I almost got a divorce,” Jen said about her husband, afootball coach at the University of Utah. “Really, I thought my life was, like, over. Sharrieff felt like he wasn’t being a positive influence in my life. Like, he couldn’t help me. What I didn’t realize was how I was acting and because I hadn’t fully told him how I was feeling, it made him feel like he was the problem.”
Jen continued, “So he was like, ‘Okay, I have to leave.’ And at first, I thought, okay, this is just an argument. And then the next day, a divorce attorney contacted me. He had already reached out to a divorce attorney. And Lisa, I was devastated.”
“It’s hard, like, being a coach’s wife in a power five conference. People don’t understand, this is not little league,” she continued. “I told Sharrieff I signed off on him being a coach. … I can’t be upset with him because I told him to do this.”
Jen then revealed that she and her husband of 26 years — with whom she shares sons Omar and Sharrieff Jr. — had sought couples therapy.
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“And now we’re in couples therapy. We want to be together,” said Jen. “I was like, ‘Yo, no one’s leaving nobody in this marriage. You can try, it’s not working.'”
Jen noted that she was feeling “happier” because she had confronted what was “killing” her inside — and she wanted to reach that place of peace with theRHOSLCfriend group as well.
That comment resulted in Lisa, 46, addressingJen’s ongoing feudwith castmateMeredith Marks.
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Lisa said that she would “always be there” for Jen but requested: “Just don’t kill the person in the middle.”
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“Girl, you know, I’ll go to jail for you,” Jen replied. “I haven’t gone to jail yet.”
Jen is currently entangled in an ongoing legal battle for her alleged involvement in a nationwide telemarketing scheme. She hasmaintained her innocencefollowingher March arrest.
Her legal woes are set to play out onthis seasonof the Bravo hit series.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake Cityairs Sundays (9 p.m. ET) on Bravo.
source: people.com
