Whitney Rose Reacts To Jen Shah’s ‘Shocking’ Guilty Plea: ‘I Thought She Was Going To Fight It’ (Exclusive)

Whitney Rose, 36, was arsenic amazed arsenic anyone erstwhile her Real Housewives of Salt Lake City co-star Jen Shah, 49, pleaded blameworthy to ligament fraud charges successful a telemarketing scheme in July 2022. “At 1 constituent successful time, I was similar possibly she truly did get screwed over, and radical did this and turned connected her,” Whitney told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY connected the latest occurrence of the Pay Attention Puh-Lease! podcast. “She screamed innocence truthful loudly. And if we adjacent tried to speech to her astir it, she would get truthful huffy and unopen america down,” Whitney added.

In March 2021, Jen was infamously arrested and charged with fraud, for allegedly defrauding hundreds of mostly elder citizens retired of millions of dollars. The cameras were rolling connected season 2 astatine the clip and Jen — who primitively pleaded not blameworthy — insisted to Whitney, and the remainder of their co-stars, that she was innocent. Jen has continued to support her innocence successful season 3, which filmed earlier she pleaded guilty.

Whitney told america that the RHOSLC cast “didn’t person overmuch information” astir Jen’s fiscal concern earlier her arrest. “The problem with that is we would perceive things successful the community. Salt Lake City is small,” the Wild Rose Beauty laminitis explained. “We would perceive rumors and we would perceive things.”

Whitney Rose; Jen Shah (Photo: Bravo)

Whitney besides explained however “frustrating” Jen’s blameworthy plea was for her. “I consciousness similar I went retired of my mode to enactment her, contempt however she treated me. Through each of this she and I built an existent relationship for the archetypal clip this season,” Whitney told us. “So to person her benignant of not archer anyone and conscionable spell successful and plead blameworthy was shocking.”

“I thought she’d combat it to the end, based connected what she was telling me,” Whitney added astir Jen. “[She said] she’s innocent, she’s gonna combat it to the end. But determination was breadcrumbs everyplace and nary of it ever made sense. And truthful present it makes sense.”

Jen Shah, Whitney Rose, and Heather Gay connected ‘RHOSLC’

Jen changed her not blameworthy plea to blameworthy connected July 11, which volition perchance prevention her 16 years successful prison. The reported woody volition unit her to instrumentality $9 cardinal to the hundreds of victims she defrauded positive an further $6 million. Jen is facing up to 14 years down bars, arsenic she said she would judge her punishment arsenic agelong arsenic it is 168 months oregon little of situation time. Jen’s sentencing is scheduled for December 15.