Jen Shah Is ‘So Touched’ Emma Stone Waited in the Cold to See Her (Exclusive)

Jen Shah is feeling the love after Emma Stone’s unexpected admiration.

The former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star is reacting to the Bugonia actress’ recent confession that she waited outside a New York City courthouse in the “freezing cold” during Shah’s 2023 sentencing.

In a statement sent through her representative, Chris Giovanni, Shah said she was moved by Stone’s devotion.

“My response? Wow, I’m genuinely so touched that Emma Stone, who I’ve admired for so long, took the time to wait out in the cold for me,” Shah said in the statement. “That’s just incredible.”

Shah, 52, added that she hopes the two might meet one day — and even floated a playful idea for how that moment could unfold.

“I’d love the chance to thank her in person one day. Maybe we could even remake her iconic lip sync battle to DJ Khaled’s ‘All I Do Is Win,’” she added in her statement, referencing Stone’s viral appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in April 2014. “That would be Shahmazing!”

Stone, 37, opened up about her experience waiting for Shah in an interview with W Magazine published on Tuesday, Jan. 6, explaining that she and her brother spent two hours outside hoping to catch a glimpse of Shah amid the reality star’s legal troubles.

“When Jen Shah was getting sentenced in New York, my brother and I waited outside for two hours in the freezing cold just for a chance to see her,” Stone recalled, after explaining that RHOSLC is her favorite reality series. “But I live in New York. We walked over there.”

“I am really invested,” she said of Shah, who was arrested while filming the Bravo series in March 2021. (“Her getting arrested on camera was wild,” Stone said).

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This isn’t the first time Stone has shared her love for Shah. In December 2023, during a Poor Things premiere red carpet, the actress suggested she’d want filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos to make a project about her. “Can you imagine?” she said, per Vulture.

As PEOPLE exclusively reported in December, Shah is currently back home in Salt Lake City, serving out the remainder of her prison sentence at home under community confinement overseen by the Phoenix Residential Reentry Management (RRM) office.

She had previously been at a Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, the same minimum-security facility which also houses prominent inmates including Elizabeth Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Shah began serving a 78-month (6.5-year) prison sentence in February 2023 after pleading guilty for her role in a long-running nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme nearly a year earlier. That sentence was then reduced a number of times by the Bureau of Prisons thanks to Shah’s good behavior, participation in prison programming and financial payments she has been making to victims (in total, Shah has been ordered to pay $6.5 million in restitution).

“We continue to express our sincerest gratitude to the BOP for Jen’s early release,” Giovanni previously told PEOPLE. “Jen Shah remains thankful for the love and prayers from her supporters. Jen is focused on reuniting with her family and friends, while embarking on this new journey of redemption to make everything right.”

For her part, Shah has expressed her regrets.

“I am sorry. My actions have hurt innocent people,” the reality star said at her sentencing on Jan. 6, 2023. “I want to apologize by saying, I am doing all I can to earn the funds to pay restitution.”