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As her tell-all live show comes to the UK, Chrishell Stause opens up about finding her voice on reality TV and why she considered walking away
‘YOU’RE NOT GOING to be able to please ever yone, so why try?’ is Chrishell Stause’s new mantra. The 42-year-old, who experienced homelessness growing up but is now best known for selling luxur y homes on Netflix’s reality show Selling Sunset, has learned to grow a thick skin. From fallings out with cast members like Amanza Smith and Mary Fitzgerald, to finding out her husband, This Is Us star Justin Hartley, was divorcing her by text just 45 minutes before the news exploded online, her new laissez-faire attitude is what comes from being one of the most talked about women on TV.
On the last season of Selling Sunset, we saw her navigate the tricky dynamic of staying friends with an ex (and their new, much younger partner) who also happens to be your boss. In this case, 46-year-old Jason Oppenheim, president of the real estate company Selling Sunset is based around. But unlike the ner vous Southern belle we saw when Selling Sunset first aired, this time around Chrishell’s had a new voice – confident, self-assured, but still kind as ever.
‘In the beginning , I was really led by fear,’ Chrishell says. ‘I was scared of what I should say and how people would take it… now I just see things differently. I’m living my life for myself... If I mess up, I will have to own up to that and try and do better but I’m confident in my own choices.’
That new-found sense of self was thanks to letting go of people’s opinions after she came out as queer in 2022, and is now married to Australian rapper G-Flip, who identifies as non-binar y – news that sent the tabloids into a frenzy. ‘Right when the world started to feel like they were going to write me off as this crazy person having a midlife crisis, now we’ve come full circle and people can see that I’m living my authentic life and they’re drawn to that,’ Chrishell says.
But we almost never got to witness those moments. Chrishell says she considered walking away from Se
