Shep Rose after all exploded on Austen Kroll right through the latest episode of Southern Attraction and admitted he was once no longer cool with Austen kissing his ex-girlfriend Taylor Ann Inexperienced.
“You can’t change. That’s the problem here, Shep,” Austen, 36, instructed Shep, 43, right through the Thursday, December 14, episode of the Bravo collection after the 2 buddies have been day ingesting on a ship in Jamaica. (The episode filmed previous this yr.)
Shep fired again, pronouncing, “I have a lot of good friends and I don’t need you,” to which Austen spoke back, “I care about people, and I would never say that to you.” Shep argued that Austen’s declare about taking good care of others was once “rich,” hinting that he was once nonetheless disappointed over Austen kissing Taylor, 28, in a while after she and Shep referred to as it quits in 2022 after two years of courting.
After tiptoeing across the dialog for weeks, Austen after all fessed as much as how his hookup with Taylor transpired. “You certainly painted out Taylor Ann to be the victim,” Austen alleged, telling Shep, “She f–king grabbed me, my friend. She came on to me motherf–er. Not the other way around.”
Audience discovered previous in season 9 that Austen and Taylor kissed in past due 2022 after their respective splits from Olivia Flora and Shep. Austen and Taylor first of all stored their hookup a secret, and as soon as it got here out, Shep selected to forgive Austen and no longer speak about it additional. Olivia, 31, had a unique means and slammed each Austen, whom she dated in 2022, and Taylor, who was once certainly one of her perfect buddies.
“I would never betray you,” Shep insisted on Thursday’s episode, claiming that he selected to take the prime street after Austen’s movements. “What I’m trying to say is, overwhelming I’ve been gracious and kind to a guy who hooked up with my f–king girlfriend a month after we broke up.”
Austen argued that Shep instructed him it was once “all good” so he was once “just taking your lead” and shifting ahead with their friendship. “You don’t give a f–k about anyone except for yourself,” Shep claimed. When Austen requested, “Do you really believe that?” Shep answered, “When it comes to women, yes.”
Shep famous that after he was once Austen’s age he was once “a f–king scoundrel,” however he alleged that Austen was once worse. “You are a total scoundrel,” Shep mentioned of his longtime pal. “If that’s how you feel, I don’t know what to say,” Austen concluded.
Shep and Austen left the room at a standstill, and Shep later instructed the cameras that Austen’s incapability to inform him the reality previous is what bugged him. “Right after the Austen and Taylor thing, Austen and I spent three weeks in Australia together. He didn’t say a word,” Shep mentioned right through a confessional. “Do you have any concept of friendship? Loyalty? [Does] that enter into your brain at any moment?”
In other places within the episode, Olivia as soon as once more made her emotions in regards to the scandal recognized after new tales about Austen and Taylor resurfaced on the net.
“The level of betrayal in the friendship is bizarre. And your inability to recognize this is baffling to me. It just keeps going,” Olivia instructed Taylor, claiming she must’ve instructed her the whole thing from the beginning. “I hate you and Austen. But I hate even more that our friendship is f–king broken. I don’t know how to be your friend anymore, so I hate you for that. I hope he was f–king worth it.”
Southern Attraction airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.