Topics: Selling Sunset, Netflix, Celebrity, US News, Reality TV, TV And Film
Despite insisting last week she 'doesn't want to be bitter' about her upcoming departure from Selling Sunset, Chrishell Stause already appears to have cut ties with some of her former co-stars.
For those out of the loop with the bombshell decision, reality TV star Stause broke the news on Thursday (7 November) that she would not be returning for the upcoming 10th season of the hit real estate series.
"I’ve vacillated back and forth with this decision in the past," the 44-year-old admitted in conversation with Bustle. "I have to be honest - having come from nothing, it’s really hard to turn something like this down."
Stause went on to explain: "I’ve gotten to a place where I don’t need the show financially. I’m lucky to have other forms of employment, because it’s no longer good for my mental health."
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Of the future of the Netflix series and her ex-colleagues, she claimed: "If they do continue, I wish them the best. If they do do another one, by then, I may not watch it. I don’t know. But I have no ill will toward the show.
"The show has given me so many opportunities, and I don’t want to be bitter about it, even though I’m leaving not in the way that I would’ve loved."
As we say, however, Stause's behaviour very much implies she doesn't intend to go quietly, with fans noticing this week that she's already started unfollowing some of her castmates on Insta.
In fact, she seems to have unfollowed everyone aside from Chelsea Lazkani.
As a reminder, season nine starred the likes of Emma Hernan, Nicole Young, Bre Tiesi, Alanna Gold, Mary Bonnet, Amanza Smith and newcomer Sandra Vergara, alongside Stause.
The brutal move comes just weeks after Stause's ex-pal Mary Bonnet revealed she'd been distancing herself from Stause following a tense season together.
"It’s gotten bad," original star Bonnet told Page Six recently. "There’s a lot of untruths out there that are really, really hurting our lives. It’s just not just a TV show, this is our lives."
It's not just Bonnet that Stause is said to have butted heads in recent years, however - she also endured an almighty fall-out with former BFF, Emma Hernan over the latter's relationship with boyfriend Blake Davis.
The brunette beauty previously claimed she saw 'so many red flags in one short meeting' with Davis accusing him of 'extremely problematic things', like comparing being non-binary to having a mental illness, and dismissing people's pronouns.
As a reminder Stause is married to non-binary musician G-Flip, who uses they/them pronouns.
"At first, I put all of it on him," she recently told Variety of her feud with Hernan. "She was kind of innocent in it. Over time, I had to understand that they are aligned, and that is her choice. But it’s not something that I want in my life."
Despite Hernan later insisting she'd 'corrected' Davis the first time he made controversial comments, after her Bustle interview went live last week, she dragged the couple once again calling out his 'hate speech towards the LGBTQ community', and claiming he 'feels entitled to using the N word'.
Accusing her former pal Hernan of 'choosing' to stay with him, Stause added in a social media statement: "That’s on her. She doesn’t mind the hate speech. She just minded me drawing attention to his page where he was doing it.
"All of which she knew about for the year and half before I ever said anything. That’s hurtful to learn her morals when her queer and black friend were her ‘best friends’ I am tired of this narrative."
In the days since, Hernan has not yet to respond to Stause's claims, nor or the news of her departure from the show.
