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Shannon Beador’s drinking has garnered attention after her September 2023 arrest for driving under the influence and hit-and-run.

In a recent trailer released by Bravo for “The Real Housewives of Orange County” Season 18, set to premiere in July, Beador is seen in a restaurant requesting a vodka-based drink.

“Belvedere and soda with a lemon,” she requests from a server during a dinner with friends, causing Tamra Judge to react visibly.

The two engage in a heated exchange that prompts Beador, 60, to rise from her seat and exclaim, “You need to stop!”

Judge, 56, retorts, “I need to stop what? Exposing your lies?”

After the meal, it appears the women convene to discuss their issues privately.

“You chose to drive your car into a house while intoxicated,” Judge reprimands Beador, who remains quiet.

Judge then tells someone off camera that her former friend is “not taking accountability for what she did.”

In another scene, the tearful Real for Real founder is seen telling two of her three daughters, “I’m so sorry that I disappointed you.”

The trailer also shows Beador blowing into a breathalyzer while sitting in the driver’s seat of her car. “Go, go, go!” Gina Kirschenheiter encourages from the passenger’s seat.

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Beador’s co-stars have expressed concern with her drinking habits in the past, but their worry grew exponentially amid her on-again, off-again relationship with John Janssen, who is now dating returning orange-holder Alexis Bellino.

While navigating their breakup after nearly four years together, Beador was arrested for drunkenly crashing her vehicle at a high rate of speed into a house in Newport Beach before fleeing the scene.

The Bravolebrity then parked her car in the middle of the street and pretended to walk her Golden Retriever, Archie, who was in the vehicle.

Beador — whose blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit — was “injured” in the accident, as she was seen with an apparent bruise on her face and a sling on her left arm days later.

Archie, however, was OK.

Beador was later charged with DUI and hit-and-run, for which she was sentenced to three years of probation, 40 hours of community service, and a nine-month alcohol program.

She appeared to maintain sobriety while attending BravoCon 2023 in November, during which she mentioned that she had spent time at “a behavioral wellness place with an alcohol component in it.”

Just two months before her arrest, Page Six exclusively reported that a “intoxicated” Beador was “ejected” from a bar in Costa Mesa after a confrontation with Janssen’s daughter escalated.

At the time, Beador and Janssen were attempting to stay friends; however, that relationship appears to have completely deteriorated.