RHSLC Reunion: Heather Gay reveals that embattled Jen Shah solicited friends for legal defense fund
Heather Gay revealed that embattled co-star Jen Shah solicited friends for her legal defense fund on Wednesday's reunion of The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City.Jen, 49, was absent from the reunion after she pleaded guilty to commit wire fraud last July after previously maintaining her innocence.Heather, 40, during the second and final season three reunion episode made the revelation while host Andy Cohen, 54, asked for her thoughts on Jen changing her plea and facing prison time.'Will you visit her?,' Andy asked.'I mean, it depends on where she goes,' replied Heather, who filmed the reunion before Jen was sentenced last month to a 6 1/2 year prison sentence with a request for it to be served at the FPC Bryan minimum-security facility in Bryan, Texas.
Reunion show: Heather Gay revealed that embattled co-star Jen Shah solicited friends for her legal defense fund on Wednesday's reunion of The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City on Bravo'I will write her if she wants that and I will look in on Omar and Coach, I don't know,' Heather added, referencing Jen's son and husband Sharrieff 'Coach' Shah, 52.Andy later asked Heather for her thoughts after castmates Whitney Rose, 36, and Lisa Barlow, 48, commented on speculation that Sharrieff had prior knowledge of his wife's illicit business dealings.'I don't know the first thing about their relationship.
I think it's, you know, pulling on a thread. I don't think you could be so supportive if you knew she was implicated,' Heather said.Heather said that she believed they made a financial decision for Jen to plead guilty after seeing something among the evidence that made it too risky to go to trial.'She said the cost of the trial was astronomical.
