{"id":269596,"date":"2019-03-18T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1024680"},"modified":"2019-03-18T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:28:00","slug":"bethenny-frankel-says-she-is-still-mourning-ex-boyfriend-dennis-shields-7-months-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/bethenny-frankel-says-she-is-still-mourning-ex-boyfriend-dennis-shields-7-months-after-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethenny Frankel Says She Is Still &#8221;Mourning&#8221; Ex-Boyfriend Dennis Shields 7 Months After His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.800417972832\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201658\/rs_634x928-160608123051-634.Bethenny-Frankel-Dennis-Shields-NYC.ms.060816.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Bethenny Frankel, Dennis Shields\" alt=\"Bethenny Frankel, Dennis Shields\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">AKM-GSI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.350895679663\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bethenny_frankel\">Bethenny Frankel<\/a><\/strong> is remembering ex-boyfriend&nbsp;<strong>Dennis Shields&nbsp;<\/strong>seven months after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Time may heal all wounds, but the&nbsp;<em>Real Housewives of New York City<\/em> star will never forget the love she shared with her former boyfriend. On Monday afternoon, she took to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bethenny\/status\/1107605842419961856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;to describe the &#8220;tricky business&#8221; that is the mourning process. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the weather,&#8221; the businesswoman explains. &#8220;There can be weeks &amp; weeks of sunshine then one day you get whacked with a storm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her candid tweet comes after&nbsp;<em>Billions<\/em> creator&nbsp;<strong>Brian Koppelman<\/strong> dedicated the Sunday episode of the show to his dear friend and &#8220;brother,&#8221; Shields. A title card at the end of the episode read, &#8220;In Memory of Dennis Shields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was brought to Bethenny&#8217;s attention on Twitter by a devoted fan, who was touched by the tribute to the late businessman. Bethenny explained the connection to the Showtime program and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bethenny\/status\/1107246657165512706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>, &#8220;He really is missed and touched so many people&#8217;s lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"51.470198675497\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.3245033112583\">\n<p>Koppelman and Frankel were just two of the many people who were impacted by Dennis Shields&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/959303\/bethenny-frankel-s-on-again-off-again-boyfriend-dennis-shields-found-dead-in-trump-tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death at the age of 51<\/a>. The businessman died suddenly in an apparent overdose at his home in Trump Tower in August 2018. Since then, his cause of death has been ruled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/964036\/dennis-shields-cause-of-death-ruled-undetermined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">undetermined<\/a>&#8221; by New York City coroners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.465517241379\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.5172413793103\">\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/963181\/bethenny-frankel-calls-dennis-shields-death-excruciating-in-emotional-statement-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">time of his loss<\/a>, Bethenny t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bethenny\/status\/1033704419257446400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weeted<\/a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to breathe &amp; I appreciate you giving me the space &amp; support to try to do so. It&#8217;s excruciating-sudden death is no closure &amp; constant ?s &amp; memories. Our relationship is current so it&#8217;s painfully raw. Trying to stay healthy &amp; move through it w tears &amp; close friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1024680\/bethenny-frankel-says-she-is-still-mourning-ex-boyfriend-dennis-shields-7-months-after-his-death?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKM-GSI Bethenny Frankel is remembering ex-boyfriend&nbsp;Dennis Shields&nbsp;seven months after his death. Time may heal all wounds, but the&nbsp;Real Housewives of New York City star will never forget the love she shared with her former boyfriend. On Monday afternoon, she took to Twitter&nbsp;to describe the &#8220;tricky business&#8221; that is the mourning process. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the weather,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-12 16:05:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}