He Cheated. She Stayed. Scheana Shay on Motherhood, Betrayal, and the Choice to Stay.
After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings
Dear Media and Big Little Feelings
4.5 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
For more than a decade, Scheana Shay has lived her life in the public eye, on Vanderpump Rules, in headlines, and under constant scrutiny. But while the world watched one version of her story, a much harder one was unfolding behind closed doors. In this deeply honest sit-down, Scheana opens up about the reality she was carrying while cameras kept rolling. A traumatic, life-threatening birth. Debilitating postpartum OCD and intrusive thoughts that left her afraid of her own mind. And the moment she discovered her husband had cheated, while she was raising a young child and barely surviving herself.
Scheana shares what it was like to endure all of this while being judged in real time. To hold herself together on set while falling apart at home. And, for the first time ever, the real reason she decided to stay in her marriage. This episode is a story of resilience. Of a woman rebuilding herself while the world dissected her choices. Of motherhood in its most vulnerable moments. Of mental health struggles that don’t wrap up neatly. And of a marriage that broke and had to be rebuilt slowly, imperfectly, and honestly.
If you’ve ever felt like you were falling apart behind a brave face, this episode will stay with you.
Trigger warning: birth trauma, postpartum OCD/intrusive thoughts, infidelity.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome back to After Bedtime, and I cannot believe I'm saying this, but today's guest. |
| 0:12.4 | Today's guest is someone that honestly Kristen and I have grown up with in real time. |
| 0:19.4 | Sheena Shea Shea is sitting down with us for today's episode. |
| 0:23.2 | Bravo fans, I know you're freaking out as much as we are. |
| 0:26.0 | And if you don't know, Sheena Shea is an actress, host a New York Times best-selling author, and one of the original stars of Vanderpump Rules. |
| 0:34.3 | And in today's episode, we are going deep. I mean really deep, like things that |
| 0:40.5 | Sheena has never shared out loud before about Fanderpump Rules, about the Valley, and about her |
| 0:46.2 | experience of becoming a mom, a birth story that did not go as planned, struggling with severe |
| 0:52.6 | postpartum OCD, and having to return back to work |
| 0:56.3 | literally days after giving birth. And then maybe the most intense one of all, her husband's affair. |
| 1:03.3 | We are getting into all of it. No filters, no holding back. This episode will make a laugh. |
| 1:09.6 | It might make you cry a little bit, but I promise you one thing. |
| 1:13.3 | It will leave you feeling so whole, so inspired, and so ready to live your life for you. |
| 1:22.1 | So, without further ado, let's get into it. |
| 1:25.5 | Welcome to After Bedtime, where the house is finally quiet, but the real noise begins. |
| 1:31.9 | The thoughts, the questions, the wondering if you're doing any of this right. |
| 1:35.9 | We're Kristen and Dina, child behavior experts, moms, and co-founders of big little feelings, |
| 1:41.8 | and we're not here to give you more pressure or perfect parenting |
| 1:44.7 | energy. Nope. We're here to tell the truth, the unfiltered, beautiful, brutal truth about what it |
| 1:50.8 | means to raise kids and re-raise ourselves in the process. Because parenting isn't just about |
| 1:56.4 | sleep schedules and snack hacks. It's about healing. It's about breaking cycles. It's about becoming the kind of |
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