Scheana Shay Reveals How Her Affair With Eddie Cibrian Started

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In an excerpt from her new guide, Scheana Shay revealed how her affair with Eddie Cibrian started, why she didn’t imagine he was married, and what he informed her when she questioned him on it.

In 2013, the primary scene of Vanderpump Guidelines confirmed Eddie’s now-ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, confronting Scheana over the affair. When the romance started, Scheana was 21 and out of the highlight.

In her memoir, My Good Facet, Scheana revealed how the romance started.

“Conveniently, certainly one of my school mates, Farrah, who was my first roommate in LA, had a good friend who labored at a personal member’s cigar lounge and restaurant. Each A-list celeb, director, author, and actor hung on the market, and it was the most popular place to work in Beverly Hills,” she stated, by way of Leisure Weekly. “I felt actually fortunate to get the job. I figured I would meet the precise individuals there, which might result in being found. So, I moved to Hollywood, by no means anticipating simply how drastically this choice would change my life perpetually.”

“I first laid eyes on Eddie Cibrian a number of months later, when he stepped off the elevator on the cigar lounge, the place he performed poker on Tuesday nights. If you happen to have been to ask me after I was rising up what my precise sort was, to a tee it was Eddie—tall, darkish, and good-looking, with dimples. The second we made eye contact, he smiled at me with these dimples, and I melted. How might I not? He’s undeniably a beautiful human. Our relationship wasn’t romantic from the bounce, although the writing was on the wall from day one.”

Scheana stated he was the “sweetest” gentleman she ever met, and he made her really feel like she was “the one woman within the room.”

“In fact, I’ve been requested a zillion instances how I didn’t notice he was married,” she stated. “Why would I’ve thought he was? He by no means wore a marriage ring, so I assumed he was single. In some unspecified time in the future, I did have a look at his IMDB, as my roommate was additionally courting an actor, and I wished to see what motion pictures he’d been in. The one one I’d seen was Say It Isn’t So starring Heather Graham, and I vaguely remembered pondering his character was sizzling, although I had no thought who he was at the moment. This was pre–social media, so it wasn’t like he was posting pics of his household in matching pajamas in entrance of a Christmas tree.”

“To be clear, Eddie wasn’t my boyfriend (no less than not completely). However we did begin a bodily relationship on the finish of 2006, which was a weekly booty name. After his Tuesday evening poker video games, and when my shift ended, we’d exit along with our mates to get drinks, after which he would come again to my home, the place we’d hook up,” she stated. “Eddie would then go house, and I’d return to my life for the remainder of the week. In hindsight, it was fairly brazen of him to be absolutely out in public with a bunch of single girls whereas his spouse and youngster have been at house … The scary factor is that I completely thought I might find yourself with Eddie; he appeared how I’d at all times imagined my future husband would, and he handled me effectively.”

In line with Scheana, their romance took a pause when she began courting Jesse Metcalfe, who performed the “attractive gardener” on Determined Housewives.

“However finally [Jesse and I] grew aside, and when issues light out later that summer time, I fell proper again into commonly hanging with Eddie—at which level it turned extra severe than our weekly poker-night hookup. A lot in order that after I was transferring flats, Eddie got here to assist me and met most of my mates and even my mom. His greatest good friend additionally joined us along with his son, who was a toddler on the time. We have been actually intertwining our households and the individuals closest to us.”

“Did I feel it was bizarre that I by no means went to his home? No! He lived in Calabasas, supposedly. And I definitely wasn’t making the trek to Calabasas in 2007, when Ubers didn’t exist, and I had lower than $1,000 to my identify. It was a lot simpler and extra enjoyable to hang around in Beverly Hills or Hollywood, and my place was nearer and extra handy. I didn’t see a single pink flag, particularly since we weren’t unique,” she stated. “The primary crack in Eddie’s completely constructed façade appeared one evening on the cigar lounge, when one of many members approached me. He stated, ‘Hear, Eddie is coming in tonight. And I simply need to let —earlier than you do one thing you would possibly remorse—that I heard he’s married.’ He will need to have seen that we have been getting extra severe and didn’t need me to get in too deep. I didn’t imagine it (or possibly I didn’t need to imagine it) as a result of I used to be wild about Eddie.”

Scheana stated she then requested Eddie if he was married.

“And his reply was ‘No, that’s insane. Why would you ask me that?’” she recalled. “It was gaslighting in its most elementary type. But, I trusted him, so we continued hanging out.”