Chrishell Stause is leaving the Netflix reality show Selling Sunset after nine seasons.
“I’ve gone back and forth about this decision in the past,” the real estate agent, 44, admitted to Bustle in an interview published Friday.
“Honestly, it’s really hard to turn down something like this because it came out of nothing,” she explained.
But neither “Jesus Christ himself” nor “Selling Sunset” creator Adam DiVello (who claims Stause calls and texts “100 times a day”) could bring her back for Season 10.
“I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t need the show financially,” she said. “I’m lucky to have other forms of employment because it’s not good for my mental health.”
Stause said that allegations of editorial inaction during the just-concluded ninth season led to her decision to quit.
“I get it. They want to create a light show,” she argued. “And if you were doing a show with people you didn’t really have a problem with, I totally get what they mean.”
Netflix did not comment in response to inquiries from Page Six.
One of Stause’s key conflicts during Season 9 was with ex-BFF Emma Hernan, whose boyfriend Blake Davis allegedly “compared being non-binary to having a mental illness.”
Stause’s spouse, musician G-Flip, specifically identifies as non-binary.
“He’s always posting anti-trans stuff. … He thinks it’s too woke not to sing the N-word in a song. He posted the other day at gunpoint saying, ‘I want to sue me for lying,'” Stause claimed to Bustle.
Davis broadly denied some of the allegations.
Ms. Stause also found it difficult to navigate her friendship with Hernan, who was said to have told her about all the “horrible” things Davis would threaten her with.
“He thought it was strange to say, ‘If you do that again, I’m going to punch you,'” Stause claimed. “Who makes a joke about that? It’s not funny.”
Not only does Stause feel that her co-stars “took a long time to take[her]relationship seriously,” but she also lamented that trying to conceive a baby through IVF while filming the show was “really hard.”
As for how she views the final “Selling Sunset” reunion, she has mixed feelings.
“After hours,” she recalled, “I felt like I said to myself, ‘Let’s sit here and get through it. You’re not a quitter, but you don’t have to do it again. And I promise you, to your soul, you’re never going to quit.’
Regarding speculation that the series’ future is in jeopardy, Stause told Bustle, “If the series continues, I wish them the best of luck.”
Although he “might not watch” the next season, he insisted that he “bears no ill will toward the show.”
She added, “This show has given me so many opportunities, and even if I end up leaving in a way I didn’t want, I don’t want to be bitter about it.”
Stause is an original cast member from when the series premiered in 2019, of which only Mary Fitzgerald, Brett Oppenheim, Jason Oppenheim and Romain Bonnet remain.
