Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause claims co-star compared being non-binary to mental illness

Selling Sunset‘s Chrishell Stause has accused co-star Blake Davis of comparing being non-binary to having a mental illness.

In an interview with Variety ahead of the reunion episode of Selling Sunset’s ninth season, which airs on Wednesday (5 November), Stause said she saw “so many red flags” in Davis when introduced to him by her former best friend on the show, Emma Hernan.

Tension arose between the two stars when it became clear that Stause was not keen on her friend’s new partner. Hernan and Davis have been dating on and off since last year.

Asked why she had reservations about Davis, Stause said that a lot of the “context” surrounding his persona had been left out of the edit, and that he wasn’t as pleasant as he at first appeared.

“[Although] in the beginning, he was nice to me, he would say these extremely problematic things,” Stause claimed. “I have a deep core issue with people who think that way, so it was upsetting. Even though he was being nice, he compared people being non-binary to mental illness.”

Stause has been married to G Flip, since 2022. The Australian singer identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

“That’s my partner, whom I love dearly,” Stause continued. “It goes so much more than what you’re able to see on a show that they’re trying as hard as they can to keep light and upbeat. I get stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to give context without also taking us to a dark place that I was unfortunately dealing with.”

PinkNews has contacted Blake Davis and Netflix for comment.

Stause ent on to claim that Davis was a different person off camera compared with what viewers saw on screen in the Netflix reality series.

“When I met him, there were so many red flags that happened in one short meeting. Sometimes you meet someone and you may not like the way they dress, or they may rub you the wrong way because they’re a little awkward. I found real things to be dangerous with his personality.”

“He recently posted about how he was going to sue my d**k off. This isn’t a normal person. Anybody who meets this man is not going to want their friend to date him. Of course, he wasn’t like that on camera. He acted one way to me, then he came on camera and flipped the script.”

In October, Davis posted an Instagram Story asking his followers whether he should take legal action against Stause.

“Should I sue the b**ch for lying her d**k off about me,” he wrote alongside a poll. He also shared screenshots of his Instagram messages with Stause from 2024, in which told her that he thought “very highly” of her, despite them disagreeing “on things”.

Fans first became aware of tensions between Stause and Davis earlier this year, when a fan on Instagram asked the former about her relationship with Hernan.

According to Reality Blurb, Stause responded: “Ask her about her MAGA [boyfriend] who told me pronouns are dumb and that he likes to use the N word. I just can’t with that. Too old to allow that in.”

A few weeks later, Davis appeared to deny Stause’s claims, telling the Daily Mail that they had only met “a handful of times” early last year.

“The meeting at [her] home took place in January 2024 and this was the last time I saw or spoke to Ms Stause,” he said. “We are barely acquaintances and we know very little about each other’s beliefs and lives.

“[We] have never discussed political views,” he went on to say, before adding that he did “not use derogatory language about anyone”.

Selling Sunset is streaming on Netflix now.