Southern Charm star Shep Rose told Andy Cohen how he first learned about co-star Madison LeCroy’s romance with Alex Rodriguez – before the subject exploded unexpectedly at the show’s recent Bravo reunion.
Calling SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” on Monday, Rose recalled that the cast was filming a trip to Capers Island in South Carolina, when LeCroy said “on camera – the cameras are buzzing, we’re on a boat – and she like, – Well, I’m going with A-Rod, but we can’t talk about it. Or I can’t pass this on, because I signed an NDA. ‘”
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of it and I thought, ‘Lord! Rose told Cohen. “My eyes almost went out of my head. But hey, you know, I think from what I understand, he approached her. ”
Rose said of the footage in which LeCroy mentioned A-Rod, “they didn’t use that … and then we get to [the reunion show]. I think it was [castmate] Craig [Conover] who let that way out of the bag and it didn’t take long for the internet or anything else to know the answers, which it never does. It is not like that? ”
A-Rod’s name was removed from the reunion show when he was raised.
Later, LeCroy confirmed to page Six that the mysterious man mentioned was indeed Rodriguez. But he insisted he only spoke on the phone.
“This is the truth,” she told us, adding that “they were never physical … they never had anything.” Just an acquaintance. “And he didn’t physically cheat on his fiancée with me,” she said, adding that the exchanges were “innocent.”
Sources close to Rodriguez went even further – telling LeCroy’s Post: “He doesn’t know this woman.”
Page Six reported exclusively on Friday that Rodriguez, 45, and Lopez, 51, broke up.
The stars stayed up all night talking after our report came out, sources told us, and released a vague statement this morning saying, “All reports are inaccurate. We work through some things. ”
A-Rod then flew to visit Lopez on the set of her film in the Dominican Republic on Monday.
LeCroy, 30, had no comment when I contacted her on Friday, saying she was “surprised” by the news about the celebrity split.