Whereas their engagement shouldn’t attain as a full surprise—finally, Alexis informed E! Recordsdata in July she and John include been rings together—the truth they began relationship the least bit greatly stunned Bravo followers, given their now not easy history.

No longer handiest did John and Shannon beforehand date for additional than three years, nonetheless Alexis’ ex-husband Jim Bellino sued each Shannon and her costar Tamra Deem for defamation in 2018, loads of years after Alexis left the sequence following season eight.

So when John and Alexis did verify their romance on the discontinuance of 2023, Shannon did now not retain serve in sharing her emotions about it.

“I'm now not going to lie, I've been damage,” the Bravolebrity informed E! Recordsdata on the time. “I've been damage a lot within the closing couple of weeks because, No. 1, John talked about that he didn't are looking out for to be within the general public take a look at, and he's thrust himself extra into the general public take a look at at this level. So, I'm rather at a loss for phrases about that.”

Shannon—who shares daughter Sophie and twins Stella and Adeline with ex David Beador—continued, “John is extraordinarily effectively responsive to a lawsuit that I develop to be interesting about with Jim Bellino, and Alexis develop to be interesting about that lawsuit. I develop to be financially and emotionally devastated for years. And I gained. But it certainly devastated me financially. And I'm a single mother. John's responsive to that.”

But no matter the noise about their relationship, each Alexis and John include been candid about how contented they’re together.

“We're amazing,” Alexis gushed in her conversation with E! in July. “It will get better each day. We each are roughly like 'pinch me' within the truth that we in actuality chanced on like a handiest friend and any individual that we’re looking out for to tear the the leisure of this lifestyles out with together. It's heavenly amazing.”

That identical month, John informed Carlos King on the July 30 episode of the Fact With the King podcast of his and Alexis’ relationship, “Right here’s what it's presupposed to be like. There's a lot of stress that's long past from my lifestyles, and, you understand, it's unhappy.”

It develop to be throughout that conversation, too, that the businessman dark his time with Shannon.

“I wanna suppose that my relationship with Shannon develop to be genuine,” he mirrored. “She has a heavenly aspect to her. But I deem folks accessible handsome deem John develop to be the problem within the relationship, and I would handsome command folks to include in mind what it may perchance probably be desire to be with Shannon.”

But no matter asserting that he tried to fetch the relationship work, he continued, “What develop to be it like? It develop to be, 'What it’s desire to fail each day, all day, each day? To fail at all the pieces?' That's what it felt desire to this level her.”

Meanwhile, Shannon serene isn’t looking out out what Alexis and John are selling. “From the surface looking in, it appears to me that there are ulterior motives on each sides for them to be in a relationship, so we'll include in mind,” the 60-yr-dilapidated informed E! Recordsdata in July. “I'm grateful that John isn't in my lifestyles because we had a truly poisonous relationship. I'm grateful.”

And handiest hours after her ex and his now-fiancée shared their titillating news, Shannon captioned an Instagram put up, “Nothing nonetheless love for those discontinuance to me…”

For a witness serve at John and Alexis’ whirlwind romance, from inception to engagement, retain finding out.