Shahs of Sunset’s Mike Shouhed Arrested on Felony Charge

“It was a dark time,” Shouhed said. “We were going through COVID, being on lockdown, and I let the anxiousness of going through that and just being bored allow me to do things I shouldn’t have done.”

He continued, “Looking back, I feel really stupid for allowing myself to engage in that conversation, even though those text messages were for a few hours and one day that those messages happened, reliving it now feels like…like it was going on for a long period of time. It just hurt her, it hurt me, it was a learning experience and I realize that I shouldn’t do that. I’m glad we got past it and are in a much better place now.”

Shouhed has since deactivated his Instagram account, but Ben-Cohen’s remains up. The most recent picture of the couple was shared on Feb. 14. She also posted a photo of herself on March 18, a little less than a week before Shouhed’s arrest, captioned “waiting for your call…” A commenter asked if Ben-Cohen was referring to her or Shouhed, to which she replied, “both.”

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