Here we go again! Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is now in its fifth season. But for some reason, we are still reliving Heather Gay’s infamous black eye from Season 3.
At the time, Heather refused to give details on what happened. Castmates and fans alike suspected Jen Shah, but Heather refused to come clean on who (or what) gave her the shiner.
After many variations of the story, Heather finally admitted that Jen gave her the black eye. To which I say, DUH. But now Heather is revealing new details about the incident, possibly giving us (her) the closure everyone needs.
Heather Gay felt “emotional torment”
Just in time to promote her new book, Good Time Girl, Heather spoke with US Weekly about the, erm, eye-popping details.
“I would love to put the black eye to bed, but there [are] a lot of things I’d love to put to bed,” Heather explained. “I’ve just chosen to embrace my failings and try to figure out how they can shape my future. But there’s a part of me that, like, never wants to mention it again.”
The former Mormon dedicated a whole chapter of her new book to this event, which she realizes will cause a reaction from readers.
“I knew by writing this chapter and opening Pandora’s box that it can go either way,” Heather shared. “It’s how I feel about it and it’s how I wrote about it. It’s just out there now. I had to take control of the story. I wanna close the chapter on it.”
In the book, Heather expressed how Jen giving her a black eye exposed the “dysfunction” in their friendship.
“A black eye was nothing compared to the emotional torment I felt trying to navigate that friendship,” she wrote. “Lisa Barlow said it best: Jen Shah gave all of us a black eye every single day. She wounded us with her lies, with her crimes, with her erratic behavior both on and off-screen.”
At the time of the incident, Jen was facing federal fraud charges. She was later convicted and is currently serving her sentence in a Texas prison.
Heather admitted that she was “ashamed” about what happened.
“I was scared at what might happen if there was evidence that Jen had caused it intentionally,” she wrote. “I didn’t want to admit to myself or anyone else that it might’ve been intentional, because it was too humiliating.”
Heather continued, “But more than anything, I was embarrassed.”
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