Vanderpump Rules: The Real Reason Stassi Schroeder Got Fired
Vanderpump Rules, the first spin-off of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, is a hit reality show in its own right.
Featuring 10 seasons and 194 episodes, the show became one of the highest-rated series on Bravo and even spawned two spin-offs of its own. Vanderpump Rules follows the lives of the staff of the West Hollywood restaurant SUR, owned by the amazing Lisa Vanderpump.
Although Lisa is a real restaurateur and SUR is also running and serving real clients, many of the show's cast members are actually actors and television personalities who applied for the job at the restaurant because they wanted to be on the show. And there was at least one such employee/cast member who became so problematic, she actually had to be fired from the restaurant and the show — and that is Stassi Schroeder.
Stassi Schroeder is a model and actress, whose main claim to fame is actually being on the main cast of Vanderpump Rules for eight seasons.
Despite her long involvement with the project, Schroeder got fired from the show and lost her job as a waitress at SUR due to a behind-the-scenes conflict.
In 2020, Variety reported on the situation: "One week after former 'Vanderpump Rules' cast member Faith Stowers revealed that two of the show's original cast members, Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute, had reported her to the police for a crime she'd had nothing to do with, a Bravo spokesperson confirmed to Variety that Schroeder and Doute won't return to the show."
So if this made you wonder what on Earth happened between the three cast members, here's a recap. According to Faith Stowers' Instagram Live chat, Stassi Schroeder and another cast member, Kristen Doute, called the police to report on Stowers after they saw a Daily Mail article, which featured a black woman wanted for theft — and that clearly wasn't Stowers.
Faith accused the women of racism, and the show cut ties with them after this scandal was exposed.
This also sheds light on Stowers' departure from the show in season one — it looks as if she was simply bullied away, and her fellow cast members' racist attitude towards her culminated in the false crime report in 2018.
Bravo's official statement, released after the contents of Stowers' Instagram chat went viral, merely confirmed that four participants, including Stassi Shroeder, won't return to the show. However, they didn't give any reasons or details to explain their decision.
Interestingly, the whole situation wasn't a death blow to Stassi Schroeder’s career because, after the scandal, she managed to achieve some success as a writer and podcaster. And given her second book's title, Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom — which is, by the way, quite popular on Amazon — it seems that she has even found a way to monetize the whole incident.