RHOSLC season 3 finale: Why do fans think Heather Gay “flip-flopped” after Jen Shah pleaded guilty?
Lily Fisher
Published Feb 06, 2026
Bravo circulated the finale of RHOSLC (The Genuine Housewives of Salt Lake City) season 3 on Wednesday, significantly zeroing in on Jen Shah’s preliminary.
The episode included Jen and her better half Mentor Sharrieff Shah managing the RHOSLC star’s lawful case. She conceded to defrauding senior residents in a telemarketing wire misrepresentation case. Jen traveled to New York for her preliminary in episode 14 (finale), and her co-stars Meredith Marks and Heather Gay visited her to loan their help.
After getting back to Salt Lake City, Heather was seen gathering with Lisa Barlow. While they were talking about Jen’s case, Heather expressed that she accepted Jen was liable. Seeing her sassing her “ride or die” companion, fans pummeled Heather via web-based entertainment for “back-peddling.”
In the RHOSLC season 3 finale (episode 14), Heather Gay met Lisa Barlow after a brief excursion to New York during Jen Shah’s preliminary.
Heather and Lisa were feeling miserable for Jen’s family and were stunned to discover that their companion had confessed. While examining the lawful case, Heather referenced that she had a hypothesis. She accepted Jen’s better half Mentor Shah learned about his significant other’s bad behaviors and requested that she confess as he was unable to fix the wreck.
RHOSLC fans were shocked to see Heather inferring that Jen was liable. Heather and Jen have professed to be one another’s “ride or die” all through the season. Indeed, even after numerous impediments, Heather never walked out on Jen.
In this way, Heather accepting Jen was blameworthy astonished fans. Notwithstanding, they felt that her hypothesis was right on target.
In the most recent episode of the Bravo show, Heather and Meredith went to New York to help Jen before her preliminary. At the meeting, Jen confessed and was condemned to 6.5 years in jail.
Before the preliminary, Jen asserted she was guiltless. At the point when Meredith and Heather met her post-preliminary, Jen asserted that her secretary Stuart Smith was to be faulted for her sentence.
After Heather got back to Salt Lake City, she met Lisa for lunch where she conceded that Jen was blameworthy. Heather at first referenced that she was stunned in the wake of looking into the condemning news.
“What she [Jen] conceded to is so awful. Also, that reality that she’s taken it this far and gone for this long and broadcasted her blamelessness, and presently — I can figure she made it happen and thought she planned to pull off it. And afterward when she understood she didn’t pull off it, her story changed.”
“This is a hypothesis… I feel that Mentor found what Jen was doing, and that it was difficult to rationalize. And afterward in that 3500 with all the observer articulations and witnesses, there was something that they couldn’t escape [or refute]. What’s more, it was an indisputable evidence that said, ‘alright, the gig is up. You need to stroll in there. You need to say you did these things. You need to go to jail for 10 years.'”
Heather proceeded:
“Furthermore, I’ll let you know at the present time. Assuming that my significant other had some awareness of it, and my better half was involved, and he said, ‘There you go, sister. I’ll deal with the young men. I’ll see you in 15 years,’ that to me… is an entirely separate misfortune. I figure she made it happen. I figure she got it done, and she’s gagging on the words and doesn’t have any desire to say it. It’s too big and the punishments are too big.”
Jen Shah has been requested to give up to jail on Friday, February 17, 2023. She won’t be a piece of the RHOSLC gathering, which is set to air one week from now.