Chrishell Stause Is Leaving ‘Selling Sunset’
Chrishell Stause is leaving Selling Sunset after nine seasons, she revealed in a Bustle interview published Friday. She said Selling Sunset creator Adam DiVello has been calling and texting “100 times a day,” but even “Jesus Christ himself” couldn’t convince her to return for the show’s tenth season.
“I’ve vacillated back and forth with this decision in the past,” Stause said. “I have to be honest — having come from nothing, it’s really hard to turn something like this down.” But things have changed for Stause since the show began in 2019. “I’ve gotten to a place where I don’t need the show financially,” she explained. “I’m lucky to have other forms of employment, because it’s no longer good for my mental health.”
Stause suggested her decision to exit the show was connected to her falling-out with her former friend and co-star Emma Hernan. She repeated claims she first made in May about Hernan’s boyfriend, Blake Davis, including that he’s made derogatory comments about pronouns and supports using racial slurs. (Stause’s wife, musician G Flip, is nonbinary.) Davis denied Stause’s claims, telling the Daily Mail he “does not use derogatory language about anyone” and he has “respectfully used the preferred pronouns” for G Flip after Stause corrected him once.
In the Bustle interview, Stause also took issue with how the show’s most recent season portrayed her conflict with Hernan amid Hernan’s on-and-off relationship with Davis. “They would break up, and she would tell me these horrific things that he would say to her, that he would do,” Stause said. She added that she understood why it was edited the way that it was, saying the showrunners want to “make a light show. And if I was doing a show with less problematic people, I can totally see their point.”
For understandable reasons, Stause said she probably won’t tune in if the show returns for a tenth season. “If they do continue, I wish them the best,” she said. “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.”
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