RHOSLC star Jen Shah says she 'didn't think I'd make it through the day' as she ... trends now
Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah has revealed she 'didn't think I'd make it through the day' as she began her six-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
Her husband Sharrieff 'Coach' Shah read correspondence she has sent from behind bars, where she detailed suffering a panic attack on the way to Bryan Federal Prison Camp, Texas.
'I could not breathe and my hands went numb,' she wrote. 'I knew I was having an anxiety attack.'
Shah, one of the most bombastic characters on the Bravo show, was locked up last month after eventually admitting to a years-long telemarketing scam that preyed on the elderly and vulnerable.
Shah, left, was sentenced to over six years in prison for a years-long telemarketing scam that preyed on the elderly and vulnerable. She is pictured leaving Manhattan Federal Court following her sentencing
Jen's husband Sharrieff 'Coach' Shah, who controls her Instagram accounts while she is incarcerated, shared her first journal entry from behind bars
Writing about her time in prison, the TV personality said she became overwhelmed with emotion two miles out from the Texas federal prison.
'I made Coach pull over because our reception was poor while driving and I was not able to Facetime my oldest baby,' she continued.
'We finally connected, I saw his face, and I cried so hard until he reassured me that it would be okay.
'I didn't think I'd make it through today. It felt surreal as we drove to Bryan FPC just minutes away from having to surrender.
'My worst fear and the unimaginable was about to happen - having to say goodbye to my sweet husband and precious baby Omar (he'll always be my baby even though he's a senior in HS).'
Her surrender to prison on February 17 came after she pleaded guilty to fraud last year - despite previously protesting her innocence for months both on-air and on social media.
She was sentenced to over six years in prison after admitting to orchestrating a telemarketing scheme that targeted susceptible elderly and vulnerable individuals.
Shah duped her victims into buying fake business mentoring, before they found themselves in unrelenting subscription payments they couldn't get out of.
At her sentencing hearing, prosecutors told how she callously laughed with colleagues when some of the victims called them in tears begging to be released from the debts.
But after being imprisoned for the con, Shah took to Instagram two weeks ago to apologize for her crime.
'I am surrendering to serve a sentence in federal prison today,' she wrote.
'It is the price I must pay for the bad decisions I made. People got hurt because of my decisions.
'While incarcerated, I will work to make amends and reconcile with
