Just hours after the new season of Selling Sunset started streaming, Chrishell Stause addressed Nicole Young‘s comments about her late parents.
“Your favorite train wreck is now streaming!” Chrishell, 44, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, October 29, alongside stills from the season 9 scene. “This year for Girl’s Giving we are serving c***.”
Chrishell acknowledged that Nicole, 39, “brings out the worst” in her. “The build up clearly had to be condensed down,” she continued. “I didn’t bring the stupid drug thing up, but defended not lying and it escalated from there. Information was shared with me by another cast member that I brought up in the heat of the moment that I shouldn’t have.”
The scene in question is a dinner party gone wrong where Chrishell brought up previous allegations about Nicole’s alleged drug use.
“Honey, you’re confusing me with your parents, OK?” Nicole fired back. “You seem to be obsessed with drugs.”
Chrishell’s costars were quick to jump on Nicole for her remarks, saying she crossed a line by bringing up Chrishell’s late mother and father. Nicole stood by her statement, saying on the show, “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.”
Nicole was later put on pause on and off screen after Jason Oppenheim dismissed her from the office. She reappeared at the end of the season to tell Mary Bonnet she was moving to Nashville with her family.
Before the season premiered, Us Weekly confirmed that Selling Sunset had to hit pause on filming due to issues between Nicole and Chrishell.
“I had a call with production two days ago during which they told me I have absolutely not been fired from the cast but they chose to pause my filming schedule until next week in order to protect me from situations on set that had become very contentious,” Nicole told Us in a statement in January. “I’m still debating whether or not I want to continue filming in this kind of environment, especially with so many infuriating double standards.”
Nicole added: “Selling Sunset has been a great opportunity and a wild ride, but it is not my life or identity. I have a big, beautiful life outside of the show…and thankfully in the real world, my life and personality can’t be edited or misconstrued to portray me negatively to fit into a produced storyline.”
On Wednesday, Chrishell made it clear that she isn’t ashamed of anything from her or her parents’ pasts.
“I would gladly free base off my desk if I never had to talk about this again,” she continued on Wednesday. “I want to dedicate this season to my parents. Because of what was said, they are brought up in every interview that I do. They were such bad asses, and would be very proud of me. (Yes even after this dinner).”
Chrishell’s adoptive father, Jeff, died in April 2019, and her mother, Ranae, died in July 2020 after individual battles with lung cancer.
“My mom would have had some choice words for a few people, and we would have laughed,” she concluded. “Thinking of that makes me smile, and I just want to add a positive memory to the conversation if they are going to be discussed.”
Selling Sunset is currently streaming on Netflix.
