Southern Charm’s Shep Rose never seemed to be on quite the same page as Sienna Evans about their relationship, making it all the more appropriate that he said their breakup felt “like a death by a thousand paper cuts" on Season 10, Episode 13.
As Shep revealed on the Southern Charm After Show, though, cameras didn’t show that Sienna had an emotional reaction, too.
After removing Sienna from the “firing squad” — aka his fellow Southern Charmers — at the dinner table during the episode, Shep initiated another beachside breakup conversation. “She goes, ‘I’m not choosing happiness’ and started crying,” Shep recalled to Austen Kroll in the above After Show clip. “And I was like, ‘Why wouldn’t you choose happiness?’”
When Austen questioned what that even meant, Shep replied, “That means, ‘I’m being calculated and opportunistic, and feelings be damned.’”
By the time Austen rolled up to check on them at the bar, he said Sienna “couldn’t help but hammer home that it wasn’t my business.”
Shep chimed in that that was when he knew Sienna “need[ed] to leave,” telling Austen on the After Show, “It all worked out the way it should work out, and I still have fond memories.”
How did Shep Rose react to his and Sienna Evans’ breakup?
When Shep initially talked to Sienna earlier in Episode 13, he wasn’t quite so ready to let go, though, pointing to their undeniable connection and “whirlwind of passion and love.” And while he was even ready to fly Sienna to Italy to meet his family, she insisted that they were never in a defined relationship to begin with.
Sienna even disagreed with his assessment that they were in love. “You felt love and that’s what we talked about,” Shep argued, later admitting in a confessional that this was the first time that he’d “tried to fight for somebody when it appears that they didn’t want it.” He then cited the theme of unrequited love from Hamlet (“Or is that Macbeth? I forgot," he joked.)
Does Shep Rose feel differently about his relationship with Sienna today?
In hindsight, Shep realized that maybe he’d misinterpreted the relationship after all, though he has no doubts about his feelings. “The tenor of it was like you’re not honoring the way we felt about each other,” Shep added on the After Show. “And, of course, did I intensify that? Yes. In the vein of me trying to replace the Taylor [Ann Green] vacuum. I thought it was maybe more than it was, but, gosh it felt different. I don’t know. Maybe it was the things we said to each other. Maybe we weren’t serious. But I was serious.”
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