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Chrishell Stause is leaving her role on Selling Sunset after nine seasons.
Days after Netflix began streaming the series’ new set of episodes, Chrishell, 44, confirmed she would not be back for season 10 as she called out Emma Hernan, 34, and her boyfriend, Blake Davis, over his alleged threats against her and supposed use of the N word, shaded the series’ producers for making her look like the bad guy, and reflected on the reunion.
“I’ve vacillated back and forth with this decision in the past,” Chrishell told Bustle on November 7. “I have to be honest — having come from nothing, it’s really hard to turn something like this down.”
Although the show’s producers can be persuasive and creator Adam DiVello has been calling and texting her “100 times a day,” Chrishell said even “Jesus Christ himself” couldn’t convince her to return.
“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.”
Throughout the ninth season, Chrishell, whose partner, G-Flip, is non-binary, endured plenty of tension with Emma and Blake, who she said “compared being nonbinary to having a mental illness.”
“He constantly posts anti-trans stuff… He thinks it’s too woke if you don’t sing the N word in songs. He posted something the other day, with a gun in view, saying he wants to ‘sue [me for lying] my d*ck off,’” she claimed.
As she looked back on the season, Chrishell felt she was portrayed as the bad guy.
“With Emma, I just look like an overbearing friend,” she said. “But there are so many things that would’ve completely vindicated me and my opinion, and they left all of it out.”
“They would break up, and she would tell me these horrific things that he would say to her, that he would do,” she alleged. “He thought it was funny to say, ‘If you ever do that again, I’ll beat you.’ Who jokes about that? It’s not funny.”
Chrishell also shared a statement against Emma on her Instagram Story, slamming her for failing to have Chelsea Lazkani‘s back against Blake and his reported use of the N word.
“The posts I shared from Emma’s bf: HE SHARED ALL OF THIS PUBLICLY. Plus SO many more than I shared inciting hate speech towards the LGBTQ community along with proudly telling myself and Chelsea he feels entitled to using the N word,” she wrote. “Emma chooses to date him, 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 a 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. If I see racism or homophobia, I’m not the shorty to help you cover it up,” she continued. “Using a Michelle Obama quote about taking the high road on a show where she defended his use of the N word and hasn’t spoken up for Chelsea’s treatment when others work to paint her as a threat is mind blowing.”
While Chrishell said she “[gets]” that producers “want to make a light show,” she suggested it wasn’t possible with the cast they chose.
“If I was doing a show with less problematic people, I can totally see their point,” she shared.
According to Chrishell, she realized a return wasn’t in her future as she sat at the reunion with her castmates.
“After so many hours, I felt like, ‘Sit here, get through it. You’re not a quitter, but you never have to do this again. And I promise you, to your soul, you won’t,’” she revealed.
Throughout her time on the show, Chrishell was seen as both a straight and a queer person. And as she alleged, she was treated differently after coming out.
“I think people think they’re an ally, but they’re not realizing the lived experience of having lived half of my time at the brokerage being ‘straight’ and then living the other half really noticing the stark differences,” she stated.
She then said that when it comes to her future, she hopes to hang out with fewer straight people.
“I just really love being around accepting, beautiful-hearted people,” she reasoned. “And I also have to say to the allies that aren’t in the community — they are out there, and I love them just as much. The real ones that will stand up and fight with us and use their voices, I want to be around those people.”
As for her baby plans with G Flip, Chrishell said she may give IVF “one more chance,” or she might consider surrogacy via egg retrieval.
In closing, Chrishell said that despite her exit, she wishes Selling Sunset “the best.”
“If they do do another one, by then, I may not movie 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,” she explained.
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