The Vanderpump Guidelines alum revealed why she stored quiet for therefore lengthy about a number of the bombshells in her new memoir, My Good Aspect, days earlier than confirming husband Brock Davies‘ affair.

Simply days earlier than Glamour dropped an explosive excerpt from the e-book on July 10, detailing how Davies cheated on her whereas she was pregnant, Shay obtained candid on the July 4 episode of her Scheananigans podcast, sharing why she held again a few of her most private truths for therefore lengthy.

“There are some issues that I have not been as forthcoming about, or possibly that I by no means corrected the narrative on,” Shay mentioned, seemingly referencing the affair, although not mentioning it immediately.

“By no means shared my facet of the story as a result of I have been afraid,” she continued, “or thought, if I inform individuals what I am truly going by way of, then they’re gonna assume that I am making an attempt to take the eye off what another person goes by way of, and make it about me.”

She defined that worry of how she’d be perceived stored her from opening up about sure subjects sooner.

“That notion of me,” Shay added, “has made me maintain again at occasions from opening up on the present or on the podcast, as a result of everybody all the time says, ‘Oh, you make the whole lot about you.’”

However in writing My Good Aspect, Shay says she lastly will get to take management of the narrative.

“In my e-book, I get to make it about me, and you will hear the edges of my story that I’ve by no means shared till now within the e-book, in my very own phrases, with my management of the narrative for as soon as,” Shay defined.

The Bravolebrity additionally teased that followers ought to put together for some critical surprises within the memoir.

“There’s loads about my previous, my household, my earlier life experiences that I feel the readers might be shocked by,” she mentioned. “I feel individuals assume they know the whole lot about me, however after studying this e-book, you’ll, since you 100% don’t proper now. I can promise you that.”

Even her most loyal followers have not seen the complete image, Shay famous.

“You realize a facet of me from actuality TV, you recognize a facet of me from my podcast, my YouTube,” she mentioned. “You place all of it collectively, you have possibly obtained, I do not know, for example 80% of me, however the e-book provides you with the remaining.”

And that apparently consists of one of many largest bombshells: Shay revealing that Davies cheated on her throughout her being pregnant with their daughter, Summer season Moon.

“I remained in a state of paralyzed shock as he confessed that he’d cheated on me two years prior, after we had been residing in San Diego throughout the pandemic, whereas I used to be pregnant with Summer season,” she wrote within the Glamour excerpt. “I felt fully sick to my abdomen.”

Davies informed Shay he had been combating the concept of turning into a dad once more and let that worry lead him down a damaging path.

“He was scared about being a father once more, particularly about whether or not he even deserved to be,” she wrote. “And he selected to take care of it by sleeping with another person.”

“I exploit the phrase ‘selected’ as a result of it was very a lot a acutely aware choice. Nobody twisted his arm or dragged him into mattress,” Shay continued.

Shay mentioned the affair began after Davies bumped into a lady “he had identified since earlier than we met” outdoors his health club, F45, in San Diego, California. “After reconnecting, he mentioned they started a short affair,” Shay revealed.

The couple welcomed Summer season Moon in April 2021 and tied the knot in Cancun in August 2022. However Shay’s belief was examined once more in 2023 throughout the Scandoval drama, when rumors swirled that Davies might have additionally had a previous with Rachel (Raquel) Leviss.

“I completely did query him as a result of after all of the Tom [Sandoval] and Raquel stuff, which I did not assume was true, I clearly needed to ask,” Shay mentioned on Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen in April 2023.

“He mentioned, ‘Completely not,’” she recalled. However she wasn’t finished. “‘Did she ever strive?’ As a lot as I belief my husband, I do not belief [Leviss].”

“He mentioned no,” Shay added. “He mentioned he by no means put that power off, and we all know Sandoval did.”

Discover out the remaining when Shay’s memoir, My Good Aspect, hits cabinets July 22.