Steven McBee Jr. is not shutting the door on The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys — not yet, at least.
“I’m really bad about speaking in superlatives, so, ‘Always and never,’ right?” Steven, 33, said during the Monday, August 24, episode of Roxanne Bahri and Shantel Butras’ eponymous podcast while discussing his family hinting that their reality show is ending.
“I need to get away from that,” he continued. “My family inherently does the same, so [we’ll say], ‘We’re never doing that again.’ … It’s in the height of the emotional state. I’m in the height of some of the online backlash, and so I speak out and say that.”
Steven added that Bravo, the network behind The McBee Dynasty, has been “extremely good” to him and his family.
“I have a lot of people that care about not only me but my family from the network down to production. We’re treated well. A lot of this online backlash is my own doing,” he said, reflecting on the criticism he received for how he handled his breakup from ex Allie Ecklund.
Steven and Allie, 29, split in April after he publicly accused her of infidelity at the 2026 Stagecoach Music Festival. Allie denied the allegations and exposed controversial text messages she received from Steven amid the scandal. Steven later apologized for the texts, exclusively telling Us that there was “no excuse or justification” for his actions.
Around the same time, Steven’s ex Calah Jackson, who was featured on seasons 1 and 2 of the Bravo series, claimed that she experienced “emotional and verbal abuse” during their relationship. (Us reached out to Steven for comment at the time.)
During Monday’s podcast, Steven acknowledged that he made a “mistake” in the way he moved quickly in his relationship with Allie, as the pair began living together and discussing marriage weeks into the romance. He had also expressed a desire to give Allie 20 percent of the McBees’ tallow skincare line, as seen on The McBee Dynasty season 3.
“A lot of this comes back to one person, and a person staring directly in the mirror at me,” he continued on Monday. “I would love to have the opportunity — a mulligan, I guess you could say — the chance to show people that I’m not this horrible person. I have anger issues. I’d be the first to admit that.”
The reality star noted that he’s been in therapy and is still “working” on himself.
“I have some flaws that I absolutely need to work on. But I am not what so many headlines, what my ex has attempted to make me out to be over the last three months. I would love to have the opportunity to showcase [that],” he continued.
Sharing his hopes for the future of the show, Steven concluded, “Yes, there’s a lot of drama in our lives, but 95 [percent] of the time we are as thick as can be, as close as can be and we live a very good life, and I feel like we are a very good family for the most part. And I would love the opportunity to showcase that, and again, learn from my mistakes and learn from where I messed up in the past, and not have a girlfriend on a season.”
Steven’s podcast appearance comes after his mom, Kristi McBee, announced her decision to step back from the public eye following the end of The McBee Dynasty season 3.
“My family and I truly appreciate all of the love and support from the ones that have been loyal, kind and have shown grace,” she wrote in the comments section of a video she shared in July. “Between the relentless smear campaign on Steven from the two ex’s, who can’t seem to move on, and then them going after my daughter-in-law who’s eight months pregnant, on top of the cruelty of a lot of the Bravo audience, I’ve had enough.”
Kristi, 52, continued, “I never needed this or wanted this and it’s time for my family to enjoy our lives and be out of the public eye.”
