Chrishell Stause has announced her shock departure from Selling Sunset after nine seasons.
The star, 44, who was an OG cast member from the show’s debut in 2019, revealed she was exiting the Netflix show in a candid chat with Bustle, admitting the pressure of filming had taken a toll on her mental health.
Chrishell Stause said: ‘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.
‘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.’
Last month, tensions between Chrishell Stause and castmate Nicole Young came to a head in the latest season of Selling Sunset.
A fiery dinner party came to a head when Young made an insensitive comment about Stause’s deceased parents.
Stause’s father, Jeff, passed away from lung cancer in 2019, followed by her mother a year later, who tragically succumbed to the same disease.
After Chrishell Stause leveraged prior accusations about her co-star’s alleged drug overdose, she hit back: ‘Honey, you’re confusing me with your parents, OK? You seem to be obsessed with drugs.’
It was not taken lightly, with the dinner party aggressively calling for Young to leave immediately.
She was subsequently reprimanded by Oppenheim Group bosses Brett and Jason Oppenheim and fired from her job as a real estate agent.
The argument between the pair spawned from Young’s false claims that their co-star Emma Hernan was having an affair with a married man.
Following Young’s biting remark about Stause’s mother and father, Amanza Smith, 48, responded, ‘I hope you are on drugs because this is f***ing inexcusable.’
She demanded that Young leave the dinner, and pointed out that Stause’s parents ‘are dead.’
But Young did not back down as she called out Stause’s swipe and argued, ‘She’s talked about [her parents] being addicts.
‘It is “OK” for me to continually be called a drug addict. You talked about your parents doing drugs.’
Meanwhile, Hernan labeled Young ‘sick and evil’ as the group of women seemed to gang up on their now-former co-star.
Following the ouster, some fans took to X and Instagram to weigh in on the explosive confrontation, with one calling Young’s remark about Stause’s parents ‘diabolical.’
Taking Young’s side, one person wrote online, ‘You can’t keep calling someone a drug addict and weaponizing their private medical moments not expect them to take it to hell when they finally respond.’
Another wrote off the show entirely, saying on Instagram: ‘I’m so done with this show. They didn’t even bother to try to stop Chrishell from slandering and sharing someone’s personal medical info, but they fire someone for making a comparison to a person that openly stated her parents OD’d while simultaneously trying g.’
Stause also feuded with Hernan over the star’s romance with Blake Davis. Stause, who is married to non-binary musician G-Flip, claimed Davis ‘compared being nonbinary to having a mental illness.’
Davis had denied ever using ‘derogatory language’ to Stause.
Stause further claimed: ‘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**k off.”‘
Davis has denied some of Stause’s claims on the Selling Sunset reunion. The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for comment and has yet to hear back.
Earlier this year Stause apologized to Selling Sunset viewers after her co-star Amanza Smith’s stylist made ‘homophobic’ remarks about G Flip.
She wrote a lengthy message on her Story firing back at stylist, Sammie Moussallem, who she claimed was lying about finances, misleading the public and ‘policing [her] sexuality.’
This came a day after Sammie issued an apology via Instagram since he called Stause a ‘fake lesbian’ on season eight of Selling Sunset.