Former Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay made a startling — and embarrassing — admission about her affair with LeAnn Rimes' husband Eddie Cibrian in her new memoir.
The 40-year-old reality star previously revealed that she carried on a relationship with the 52-year-old actor years ago without realizing he was married at the time.
And in an excerpt from her book My Good Side that was obtained by Entertainment Weekly, she returned to the episode and admitted that her judgment was compromised when she was younger, as she never noticed 'a single red flag' with Cibrian.
According to Shay, she had just moved to Los Angeles in May of 2006 after graduating from Azusa Pacific University.
The future TV star, who was only 21 at the time, wrote that she hoped to 'make a name for myself in the entertainment industry, whether that was as an actress, a TV host, or a news reporter.'
Fortuitously, she met a real-life star with some success shortly after she got a job at a 'private member’s cigar lounge' that doubled as a restaurant that was regularly filled with 'every A-list celebrity, director, writer, and actor' around.
Former Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay, 40, made a startling — and embarrassing — admission about her affair with LeAnn Rimes' husband Eddie Cibrian in her new memoir
She previously revealed she had an affair with the 52-year-old actor years ago without realizing he was married at the time; Cibrian is pictured with current wife LeAnn Rimes in 2022 in LA
In an excerpt from her book My Good Side that was obtained by Entertainment Weekly, Scheana returned to the episode and admitted that her judgment was compromised when she was younger, as she never noticed 'a single red flag' with Cibrian
A few months into the job, she allegedly met Cibrian at a Tuesday night poker game, and she claimed he returned weekly for the game.
'If you were to ask me when I was growing up what my exact type was, to a tee it was Eddie — tall, dark, and handsome, with dimples,' she wrote in her memoir. 'The second we made eye contact, he smiled at me with those dimples, and I melted. How could I not? He’s undeniably a gorgeous human.'
At the time, he was married to former Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville, whom he wed in 2001 and divorced in 2010.
The future model wouldn't make her big break in reality TV until 2011, when she joined the series as a friend for its second season.
The couple had split in 2009 after it was reported that Cibrian had an affair with the country singer LeAnn Rimes, whom he went on to marry in 2011.
Scheana claimed that her connection to Cibrian grew slowly over time, but she felt there was a spark right from the start.
'Eddie was the sweetest, funniest, most charismatic, consummate gentleman I’d ever met. He always made me feel like I was the only girl in the room when I was working,' she wrote, whereas she claimed the other customers took little notice of her.
The idea that Cibrian could be married at the time doesn't seem to have crossed her mind, but she also defended herself because there wasn't an easy way to casually track down intimate details about a person at the time.
She said she met him while working at a cigar lounge and restaurant where he would come for a regular poker game on Tuesday nights. They allegedly started dating around 2006 when she was 21 and fresh out of college; pictured in November in LA
Cibrian was married to Brandi Glanville (pictured) from 2001 to 2010, but Shay claimed he never wore his wedding ring. She said they never went to his home despite spending time together in public; seen in 2009
'This was pre-social media, so it wasn’t like he was posting pics of his family in matching pajamas in front of a Christmas tree,' she explained.
Moreover, Shay alleged that Cibrian ditched his wedding ring whenever he went to the Tuesday poker game.
'To be clear, Eddie wasn’t my boyfriend (at least not exclusively),' she emphasized. However, she did claim that they began a 'physical relationship' in late 2006.
She claimed that her 'booty call[s]' with Eddie were exclusively on Tuesday nights after he wrapped up his game and she finished her shift at the club.
Another factor that blinded her from realizing that he was married was how they allegedly spent plenty of time in public with friends or on his boat, instead of trying to keep the relationship completely secret.
She added that the 'frightening thing' about the relationship was that she thought she could easily 'end up with Eddie.'
'He looked how I’d always imagined my future husband would, and he treated me well,' she said.
The relationship petered out when Scheana allegedly told Eddie she thought she was too young to be committed to a single person.
She added that the 'frightening thing' about the relationship was that she thought she could easily 'end up with Eddie.' 'He looked how I’d always imagined my future husband would, and he treated me well,' she said
During a fallow period she allegedly began dating the actor Jesse Metcalf, 'the sexy gardener from Desperate Housewives,' but she went back to Cibrian after they grew apart
Scheana claimed that a coworker later tipped her off that Eddie was married, and she allegedly denied it at first; pictured in April in Beverly Hills
Shay later married Michael Shay from 2014 to 2017, and she tied the knot with her second husband Brock Davis in August 2021. The couple had welcomed their first child, four-year-old Summer Moon Honey (pictured together), in April of that year
Around that time she allegedly began dating the actor Jesse Metcalf, 'the sexy gardener from Desperate Housewives.'
She claimed to have seen him as the title character in 2006's John Tucker Must Die and 'dream[ed]' of dating him — which became a reality in early 2007.
Although she thought he was an 'awesome' guy and respected his focus on his sobriety, they grew apart and she allegedly began seeing Cibrian again.
However, she claimed a coworker later revealed to her that he was married, which she claimed he denied when she confronted him about it.
Scheana explained how she never ended up at Eddie's home, which would have tipped her off that he was married.
'It really felt like we were building something. Did I think it was weird that I never went to his house? No! He lived in Calabasas, supposedly,' she wrote.
'I certainly wasn’t making the trek to Calabasas in 2007, when Ubers didn’t exist, and I had less than $1,000 to my name,' Shay continued. 'It was so much easier and more fun to hang out in Beverly Hills or Hollywood, and my place was closer and more convenient. I didn’t see a single red flag, especially since we weren’t exclusive.'
Cibrian shares two sons with his first wife Brandi — Mason, 22, and Jake, 18 — and the exes eventually found their way to a friendly co-parenting relationship after his marriage to Rimes.
Shay later married Michael Shay from 2014 to 2017, and she tied the knot with her second husband Brock Davis in August 2021. The couple had welcomed their first child, four-year-old Summer Moon Honey, in April of that year.
