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“I’ve vacillated back and forth with this decision in the past,” the real estate agent, 44, admitted to Bustle in an interview published this week. “I have to be honest — having come from nothing, it’s really hard to turn something like this down,” she explained. However, neither “Jesus Christ himself” nor Selling Sunset creator Adam DiVello — whom Stause claimed has been calling and texting “100 times a day” — could get her to come back for Season 10. “I’ve gotten to a place where I don’t need the show financially,” she noted. “I’m lucky to have other forms of employment because it’s no longer good for my mental health.” Stause said the editors’ alleged omissions during the recently wrapped ninth season contributed to her decision to quit. “I get it; they want to make a light show,” she claimed. “And if I was doing a show with less problematic people, I can totally see their point.” Netflix had no comment when contacted by 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, notably identifies as non-binary. “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,’” Stause alleged to Bustle. Davis has broadly denied some of the allegations. Stause also found it difficult to navigate her friendship with Hernan, who would allegedly tell her about all the “horrific” things Davis would threaten. “He thought it was funny to say, ‘If you ever do that again, I’ll beat you,’” Stause claimed. “Who jokes about that? It’s not funny.” Not only does Stause feel that it took her co-stars “a while … to take [her] relationship seriously,” but she also lamented that trying to conceive a baby via IVF was “really hard” to do while filming the show. As for how she views her final Selling Sunset reunion, she has mixed feelings. “I think, 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 recalled telling herself. Regarding speculation that the future of the series hangs in the balance, Stauce told Bustle, “If they do continue, I wish them the best.” Though she “may not watch” another season, she insisted that she has “no ill will toward the show.” She added, “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.” Stause was an original cast member when the series premiered in 2019, among whom only Mary Fitzgerald, Brett Oppenheim, Jason Oppenheim and Romain Bonnet remain. This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.
