After a tough conversation with Sienna Evans, Shep Rose offered a new perspective on the Southern Charm vacation.
Shep Rose envisioned that his Southern Charm friends would get to know his girlfriend, Sienna Evans, better when the crew visited her in the Bahamas, but the trip was anything but smooth sailing.
The South Carolina native put his heart on the line by sending a vulnerable text to the former Miss Bahamas (more on that below), but when he wasn't baring his soul, he still managed to have fun with his fellow Charmers.
After Season 10, Episode 11 aired on February 20, Shep shared a few previously-unseen snapshots from the stunning vacation on his Instagram Story.
Shep first posted a photo of him posing on the dock with castmates Craig Conover and Austen Kroll. The three each wore a shorts set with hats and flip-flops.
"A lighter moment from the Bahamas trip..." Shep captioned the photo.
He also posted a picture with Whitney Sudler-Smith from the casino.
"And another," he wrote. "Thanks to [Austen Kroll] who had the hot dice on the craps table."
Madison LeCroy shares unseen look at the Southern Charm cast trip to the Bahamas
Ahead of the episode, fellow cast member Madison LeCroy posted a carousel of behind-the-scenes photos from the Bahamas as well.
"Tune in tonight to see who actually survived this trip," she wrote. Check out the photos below!
Inside Shep Rose's emotional time in the Bahamas with Sienna Evans
Though Shep had anticipated spending a lot of the Bahamas trip with his Bahamas-based girlfriend, she avoided most of the group events.
On Episode 11, Sienna finally joined the group for dinner. But beforehand, she met up with Shep in the guys' suite, where the two discussed their future together.
He told her that he saw them having a family together.
"You would mention to me that, 'Oh we would have the prettiest babies,' We would have these beautiful kids who are smart..." he began. "They would be connected to nature and the ocean, and we would just live all over the world and have adventures. This was in my mind."
Sienna admitted that she "never knew" that Shep was so serious about her, and he said that he was "actually in love" with her.
The morning after the group dinner, Shep confessed to Austen that he had sent a long text message to Sienna about his strong feelings for her.
"Good morning, Sienna. Listen, I love seeing you, and no one else makes me feel the way you do. No one. But I'm not going to try to convince someone that they love me for three days, especially when I know that deep down, they do," Shep wrote in the message, which he read aloud to Austen. "Here's hoping that you understand my feelings and exalt them. I just don't feel this way almost ever. I know that you agree, and feel a lot of what I do, because I've heard it from your perfect little freckled lips. And those around us can say and think what they will, but we will have the last laugh. And we'll have love, laughter, and literally everything that matters. OK. My TED talk is over."
The text went unanswered, and Austen admitted, "You're making me cringe for you."
Though Shep and Sienna aren't in the best place yet, there's still more to see from the Southern Charm Bahamas trip.
Plus, find out how the rest of the cast reacted to Shep's text here.
