Vanderpump rules star Scheana Shay revealed this week that she was once in a ‘throuple’ with John Mayer – and that the relationship led to her eventual appearance on the reality show.
Talk on the Flashbacks podcast Wednesday Shay revealed that she met Mayer in 2008, just before he broke up with Jennifer Aniston, and she and her roommate Stacie Adams, who appeared on The Hills, entered a throuple.
Shay explained that she was having a private party in the Grand Havana Room, hosted by the singer “Gravity” and befriended “him and Aniston.
“Every time they made a shot, they would get me a shot,” she told podcast co-hosts Heather Rae Young and Jessica Hall. “They invited me to go to a place after the party to their place in the Palisades.”
While she never hesitated to go to Aniston’s house, Shay said Mayer returned to the Grand Havana Room a few weeks later after he and Aniston had split up. The reality star explained that she and Adams, known The Hills fans like “Stacie de Bartender”, started hanging out with the singer “New Light”.
“This lasted about six months, so we hung out. We were going to go to his house … It was just, you know, kind of the three of us. We had a little throuple going on. But then it was “Like, me and another her. Everyone always had attention.”
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When one of the hosts asked Shay if she meant a “sexual troop,” she replied, “Yeah.”
“I definitely got a little jealous at the end of it because I knew he liked her more,” Shay said of Adams, who served as a bridesmaid in Shay’s first marriage. “And I was, ‘Wait, I brought you in here, like, and now you get more attention than I get, like what’s up with that?’ And then, just behind him and I, stopped chatting, they kept talking, and there were like a lot of things – like her and I had fallen out like a year of just awkward friendship, but came a year later full circle and. .. have never been closer. “
Shay went on to explain that she was eventually fired from the Grand Havana Room because of her relationship with Mayer, after one of her colleagues talked her out of it because the waitresses were not allowed to “fraternize” with her members.
While Mayer was not a member of the Beverly Hills location, he was in New York, Shay said.
Shay said she “never told a single soul” about her connection to Mayer, but the scandal made its way into the tabloids.
“It was all over,” Shay said, adding that she called Mayer to tell him that she did not leak the story and that he believed her.
“He was like, ‘No, it’s cool, I do not think you would do that, as we hung for six months. Like, you probably would have done it already.’ And so I was, ‘You know I lost my job over this?’ It was the week of my birthday, and I’m like, ‘I do not think we as a cocktail waitress really get a package.’ “
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Shay landed a new job at the Villa Blanca restaurant – owned by none other than Lisa Vanderpump.
“So if it were not for John Mayer, I would not be with him Vanderpump rules, “Said Shay.
In 2009, Shay spoke to PEOPLE about her relationship with Mayer, saying, “we are friends.”
“He’s a great boy,” she added. “He’s funny and loving.”
A source added to MENSE at the time the duo “had spent the past few months together” and “got to know each other.”
A rep for Mayer had no comment. Adams did not immediately respond to a request for comment from PEOPLE.
