Brock Davies cheated on Scheana Shay — and she’ll be the first to admit that her husband’s infidelity “really felt like … karma.”
The “Vanderpump Rules” alum reflected on her own affair in 2006 with then-married Eddie Cibrian while discussing Davies’ scandal with Us Weekly in an interview published Wednesday.
“Did I deserve [to be cheated on]?” Shay, 40, asked. “No, but I told myself that I did.”
The reality star noted that she has worn a “scarlet letter for so long” and is regularly called a “home-wrecking whore” online for her past relationship with Cibrian.
Shay defended herself for being the actor’s “booty call” while he was married to Brandi Glanville, explaining, “I was lied to by a 33-year-old man when I was 21, fresh out of college. I feel like people tend to forget that.
“Looking back, were there red flags? Absolutely,” she continued. “I was leading with my heart and not my brain.”
The Bravolebrity does, however, “regret opening up to the media about” her time with the now-52-year-old “Sunset Beach” alum, which she called an “extremely immature and extremely irresponsible” choice.
“I wasn’t thinking about his wife and toddlers at home,” she admitted. “People like to say that I make everything about me — this was an instance where I was only thinking about myself.”
Shay noted, “Lo and behold, look what my husband did to me.”
The “Valley” star revealed last week in an excerpt of her upcoming memoir, “My Good Side,” that Davies had an affair while she was pregnant with their daughter, Summer, in 2021.
The 35-year-old did not tell Shay about his betrayal until Tom Sandoval’s cheating scandal went viral two years later — and Shay “went back and forth” about including it in her book.
“It started as absolutely not,” she explained to Us Weekly. “It was an eight-month conversation. After several therapy sessions and really talking about it, we decided that this book would be inauthentic if we didn’t put it all in.”
Shay clarified that she and Davies were “both … a little bit” on the fence.
Nevertheless, she decided, “I’d rather it come out in my words because, unfortunately, there was another person involved in this situation, and at any point in time, she could come forward.”
The woman, who has not been identified, was someone Davies knew previously and reconnected with at a F45 gym.
Shay “100 percent without a doubt would have left” her partner over the indiscretion if they did not have a 4-year-old.
Her forgiveness has taken therapy and “work every single day,” with Shay deciding she “can’t let [Davies’] past define” him and make him “wear that for the rest of his life.”
She continued, “I will forever have insecurities. Just the other day, I saw him swipe and delete a text, and I’m like, ‘What was that?’ … But I genuinely believe he would never do anything like that again.”
The couple, who have been married since 2022, are now “slowly taking steps” to expand their family via surrogacy.
