Eddie Cibrian was married to Brandi Glanville on the time he and the then-21-year-old Vanderpump Guidelines alum began seeing each other — later, he additionally began seeing seeing now-wife LeeAnn Rimes.
Eddie Cibrian was stepping out on his marriage and Scheana Shay was simply alongside for the journey, in keeping with a brand new excerpt from her upcoming memoir, My Good Aspect. And it was a weekly journey, at that.
Regardless of Cibrian being married to Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville on the time, Shay stated she actually had no concept. Because the Vanderpump Guidelines alum reminds her readers in an unique clip shared with Leisure Weekly, this was earlier than the period of omnipresent social media, so secrets and techniques have been loads simpler to carry.
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Shay writes that she was simply 21 years outdated when she first met Cibrian whereas she was working at a personal members-only membership the place “each A-list celeb, director, author, and actor frolicked.” Her roommate, who additionally labored there, had helped her land the gig at “the most popular place to work in Beverly Hills.” Shay hoped, like many who go to LA, to get found and figured this was a very good place for it.
In line with Shay, Cibrian walked in and she or he was performed in instantly. “For those who have been to ask me after I was rising up what my actual sort was, to a tee it was Eddie–tall, darkish, and good-looking, with dimples,” she explains within the ebook. “The second we made eye contact, he smiled at me with these dimples, and I melted.”
Shay writes that she was smitten straight away with Cibrian’s attraction, and the way “he all the time made me really feel like I used to be the one woman within the room after I was working.”
As for Glanville, Shay writes that Cibrian being married by no means even crossed her thoughts — and it definitely by no means crossed his lips. “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,” she notes. He additionally by no means wore a marriage ring, per the ebook, so she merely “assumed he was single.”
On high of that, she did not have a smartphone and needed to go to an web cafe to even get on-line, so trying up this man on Google by no means actually crossed her thoughts. It was an easier time when it got here to issues like that, for higher or worse.
Shay defined that she and Cibrian have been by no means even in what may think about an unique boyfriend-girlfriend factor, however by 2006, issues had began to get bodily between them, with Shay describing it as “a weekly booty name.”
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She defined that the hookups have been all the time on a Tuesday after her shift, they usually have been even out in public collectively loads throughout this time with associates, cruising on his boat and “taking pictures collectively.”
“In hindsight, it was fairly brazen of him to be totally out in public with a bunch of single ladies whereas his spouse and little one have been at residence,” she writes in her ebook. And on the similar time, she was falling laborious, including, “The horrifying factor is that I completely thought I may find yourself with Eddie.”
This was effectively earlier than Shay would discover success in actuality tv with the launch of VPR in 2013, and even earlier than Glanville grew to become a Housewife in 2011 — which was additionally the yr after she and Cibrian’s very public divorce over his infidelity with a special lady.
On the similar time that issues have been feeling proper with Cibrian, Shay felt herself being younger and never fairly able to commit — plus, she and Cibrian had by no means been unique. “That was after I began seeing Jesse Metcalfe, the horny gardener from Determined Housewives,” she writes.
They started relationship in 2007, however when that relationship ran its course, she and Cibrian reconnected. And regardless of by no means going to his home or actually being introduced inside his world, Shay writes that she “did not see a single purple flag” with him.
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“It actually felt like we have been constructing one thing. Did I believe it was bizarre that I by no means went to his home? No!” she writes. “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 title.” For a younger working-class lady, she was completely comfortable to hold in Beverly Hills or Hollywood and at her place.
Shay stated that somebody at her work did tip her off to the truth that Cibrian was married. “He should have seen that we have been getting extra severe and didn’t need me to get in too deep,” writes Shay.
She writes that she finally requested him straight-out and he denied it, replying, “No, that is insane. Why would you ask me that?”
“It was gaslighting in its most elementary type,” Shay provides. “But, I trusted him, so we continued hanging out.”
And, because it seems, Cibrian was additionally stepping out on his marriage to Glanville with another person — the girl who would (considerably controversially, not less than within the public eye) turn into his spouse the yr after his divorce, LeAnn Rimes.
Scheana Shay’s My Good Aspect hits booksellers on July 22.
