Lisa Vanderpump dismissed Scheana Shay’s “bulls–t” accusation that she exploited her for fame and financial gain.
“Guess what? I don’t care what she says, how about that?” Vanderpump told a TMZ paparazzo in Los Angeles on Tuesday, adding that she was more concerned about rock legend Ozzy Osbourne dying that day.
“That’s the saddest thing,” the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 64, added as she got into her car.
“Important things are what matter to me, not her bulls–t claims.”
While on a press tour for her new book, “My Good Side,” Shay — who starred on “Vanderpump Rules” for 11 seasons before Bravo decided to revamp the series with fresh faces — claimed to Us Weekly, “[Vanderpump] low-key used my real-life pain to launch her TV empire — and what an empire she has.”
Shay’s 2006 dalliance with actor Eddie Cibrian became a hot topic after Vanderpump introduced her to his ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, in a 2013 episode of “RHOBH,” which launched the “VPR” spinoff series.
In her book, Shay claims Vanderpump knew of her past relations with Cibrian, who was married to Glanville at the time, even though the restauranteur allegedly pretended otherwise on the reality show.
“She gaslit me about it for a decade instead of just coming to me in the beginning. That’s the thing with Lisa: She doesn’t make mistakes. She makes moves and then calls them coincidences,” Shay, 40, alleged to Us Weekly.
She went on to explain that her relationship with Vanderpump “changed” for the worse after she “stopped following her orders.”
“On Season 6 of ‘VPR,’ when James Kennedy told Katie Maloney that the outfit she was wearing wasn’t flattering, I got a phone call from Lisa. She didn’t want to fire James, so she needed someone to stand up for him [at a staff meeting],” Shay claimed.
“If you go back and watch, I’m getting a death stare from Lisa, like, ‘When are you going to speak up? When are you going to stick to the script?'”
Shay also reiterated that she did not know Cibrian was married when they were hooking up, insisting, “He’s the one who lied. He is the one who cheated. He is the homewrecker.”
