Shannon Beador is getting candid about how she’s still trying to better herself after her DUI arrest last year. “I’ve done a lot and I still have more to do,” Beador, 66, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, July 11, ahead of the Real Housewives of Orange County season 18 premiere. “I work with my therapist, and I have a psychiatrist from the program that I went to for 30 days.
And I feel as though I’m growing. I’m headed down a healthier path, and I’m trying to create any type of positive thing that I can out of a horrible situation.” Beador shared that she opted for therapy over rehab because she realized she was using alcohol as a “coping mechanism.
” At the time of her DUI, she explained, she was struggling with a lot of things in her personal life, like preparing for her youngest daughter , Stella, to head to college. “I don’t want to take what happened to me lightly at all and say like, ‘Well, God had a plan,’” she reflected. “Because I could have hurt someone.
” The reality star shared that she was “incredibly grateful” no one was injured at the scene of her accident — including her dog, Archie, who was in the car with her. “I made a horrible choice very late in my life, and I considered myself a better example than that. So I’ve got to make changes, and it has forced me to look at my life,” she admitted.
“And as I look at it right now, I have a lot of work to do. It’s probably lifelong, but I feel good about myself .
