The Real Reason Chrishell Stause Is Leaving Selling Sunset

Chrishell Stause exits Netflix’s Selling Sunset after nine seasons, citing mental health and new financial independence—and says not even Jesus Christ himself could get her to sign on for season 10.

Chrishell Stause is done selling drama. After nine seasons of Selling Sunset, she has officially exited the Netflix juggernaut, and the short version is this: she hit a wall, protected her sanity, and realized she doesn’t need the paycheck anymore.

The moment she decided to walk

The line in the sand came at the season 9 reunion. It taped in August 2025 and aired November 5, and Stause says that was the day she decided she would finish the shoot and never come back. She felt ganged up on, and the experience crystallized everything that had been building. By the time she spoke in a November 7, 2025 interview, she was adamant she wouldn’t be back for a potential season 10 — not even divine intervention could change her mind.

Creator Adam DiVello has kept reaching out, hoping she’ll reconsider. She hasn’t. At this point she’s distanced from most of the cast, with Chelsea Lazkani as the one exception, which makes a return even less likely.

The money piece (aka why walking away is possible)

Stause was blunt about the practical side: she can afford to leave. Estimates peg her net worth around $6 million, and she brings in roughly $500,000 a year across real estate, TV, and brand work. She’s diversified, too — she appeared on The Traitors season 3 on Peacock (premiered January 2025) and co-starred in Netflix’s 2024 holiday movie Hot Frosty. The show used to justify the headaches. Now it doesn’t.

"Ive gotten to a place where I dont need the show financially. Im lucky to have other forms of employment, because its no longer good for my mental health."

What really pushed her out

None of this happened in a vacuum. Here’s the simplified version of a very messy situation:

• Editing complaints: Stause says the show routinely shaved off context that would have explained her side, leaving her to eat the villain edit. She gets that producers want a breezy, splashy series — but not, in her words, with people who are that difficult to work with if the nuance is going to the cutting-room floor.
• The Emma Hernan/Blake Davis blowup: Stause’s friendship with Emma cratered over Emma’s boyfriend, Blake Davis. Stause alleges he made derogatory remarks about nonbinary people, shared anti-trans posts, and joked about violence. She also says he once posted a gun photo while talking about suing her and complained it was too "woke" to skip offensive lyrics. Emma pushed back, denying many of those claims and arguing Stause crossed a line by airing private drama online. It got ugly.
• That reunion: The August taping was the last straw. Stause says she was being piled on, and she decided during filming that she was out for good.
• Her mental health vs. the paycheck: She stayed as long as the money made the chaos tolerable. With other income streams now in place, the calculation flipped.

Life off-camera: IVF, marriage, and feeling like the odd one out

While all of that was playing out, Stause was quietly going through multiple unsuccessful IVF rounds during filming. She’s married to musician G Flip, who is nonbinary, and says they may try IVF once more and are also looking at surrogacy. Being the only openly queer cast member left her feeling isolated at times, and she noticed a shift in how some people treated her after she came out. Going forward, she wants to spend her time around people who treat her relationship like it’s not a curiosity.

What she wants to do next

Stause has been pitching a queer dating show with a competitive twist, and she’s eyeing hosting gigs and lead roles in queer holiday movies. In other words: she’s not disappearing, just changing channels.

What this means for Selling Sunset

As of November 2025, Netflix hasn’t announced a season 10 renewal. Losing Stause — one of the show’s central narratives since nearly the beginning — leaves a big question mark over the franchise. Maybe it evolves. Maybe it wobbles. Either way, the show’s future is suddenly a lot less certain.

Selling Sunset is streaming on Netflix.