Steven McBee Jr.’s ex-girlfriend Calah Jackson had a entrance row seat to his dad, Steven “Steve” McBee’s, FBI investigation scandal — effectively earlier than his brothers had any thought what was taking place.
“I feel that Steven’s reasoning for not telling his brothers [was] as a result of he didn’t need them to tackle any of the stress or fear [that] he was having to take care of,” Calah solely informed Us Weekly on Thursday, August 14, whereas selling season 2 of The McBee Dynasty: Actual American Cowboys. “I positively do assume they might be, you recognize, offended or neglected that he would inform me over his brothers as a result of they’re such a close-knit household.”
Calah, who was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Steven for a lot of season 2, revealed that she “came upon in regards to the FBI investigation in all probability, like, six months or so earlier than everyone else did.”
She defined, “Steven confided in me about it, and I used to be actually his shoulder to lean on and assist him undergo these motions.”
Calah beforehand teased on the Bravo collection that she knew the McBee household’s “secrets and techniques” after she had an enormous battle with Steven and his brother Cole McBee throughout a bunch journey to the Ozarks. (Calah and Steven have been damaged up since filming wrapped on season 2 in late 2024.)
She informed Us that whereas she was hinting at Steve’s FBI investigation, she was “a bit of drunk” and easily “making an attempt to defend” herself relatively than “truly [trying] to reveal him.”
Steve was virtually completely absent from season 2 of The McBee Dynasty, which filmed in summer season and fall 2024, with out an preliminary rationalization. Nonetheless, his eldest son, Steven, slowly began to inform the cameras that his father was below prison investigation over the operating of McBee Farm & Cattle in Missouri.
In November 2024, Steve pleaded responsible to his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud rip-off. He was charged with one depend of federal crop insurance coverage fraud after being accused of falsifying stories about his crop yields and misrepresenting his crop utilization. Steve is at present awaiting sentencing, which is scheduled to happen in September.
Whereas the drama has since come to mild in actual life, on the present solely Steven, his mother, Kristi McBee, the corporate’s CFO Galyna Saltkovska and Calah are within the loop thus far.
Steven “Steve” McBee Sr. made his first look on season 2 of The McBee Dynasty — seven episodes in — after the patriarch remained largely offscreen whereas weathering an FBI investigation. Through the Monday, August 11, episode of the hit Bravo collection, Steve appeared on the present for the primary time this season after reuniting […]
Though Calah informed Us that she thinks Steven didn’t share the information together with his brothers, Jesse McBee, Brayden McBee and Cole, as a result of he’s a protector, Jesse doesn’t have any arduous emotions towards Steven for protecting it quiet.
“It was a shell shock simply seeing the burden that Steven had been [dealing with],” Jesse solely informed Us final month, confirming he discovered about his dad’s authorized troubles whereas filming.
Calah, in the meantime, recalled the shock of Steve’s FBI scandal making the papers — despite the fact that she was aware about the information months prior.
“It’s a distinct factor at any time when it comes out so publicly, and also you’re on a platform,” she stated, telling Us that though she and Steven had cut up by the point the information got here out in late 2024, she did have a “couple of conversations” with him about it.
Calah teased that there’s “nonetheless a lot extra to come back out” in regards to the authorized troubles this season, noting that Steve will proceed to be “very MIA” within the upcoming episodes.
“He did take a while off, and he bought away for a bit of bit, and was simply making an attempt to give attention to getting again to an excellent web page,” Calah remembered. “I didn’t see him actually lots in any respect.”
The McBee Dynasty: Actual American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
