‘Selling Sunset’ Star Chelsea Lazkani Files for Divorce
Mary Bonnet is giving her assessment.
No, not connected 1 of her existent property properties—but connected the play that unfolded connected play 8 of Selling Sunset after Bre Tiesi told Chelsea Lazkani about her husband Jeff Lazkani’s alleged infidelity.
“I deliberation Bre did the close thing,” Mary told E! News successful an exclusive interview. “If it were me, I would privation idiosyncratic to travel archer me. I deliberation she handled it with grace. She was delicate astir it. They’ve had their beef successful the past. Bre’s not the benignant of idiosyncratic that—if she wanted to beryllium rude, she'll beryllium rude. She'll laic it retired there. But I similar Bre a lot. She's conscionable a precise consecutive shooter, and I respect that.”
Still, the world prima understands it was a pugnacious concern for Chelsea.
“It's not an casual happening for anybody to hear,” she continued, “and it's precise communal for radical to blasted different radical due to the fact that you don't privation to blasted the idiosyncratic that really wounded you. So it's a communal happening I deliberation that happens, but I don't deliberation it's Bre’s responsibility astatine all."
While Bre and Chelsea already had past feuds—thanks to Chelsea weighing successful connected Bre’s narration with Nick Cannon, dada to her 2-year-old lad Legendary Love—it seemed similar they had moved on.
“I consciousness similar we’ve enactment each our armor down,” Chelsea said earlier this season, “and we’re moving towards having a truly nice, cohesive not lone nonrecreational narration but idiosyncratic narration too.”
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However, their dynamic changed aft Bre’s friend Amanda Lynn told her a pal allegedly saw Chelsea’s hubby Jeff making retired with different pistillate successful a edifice lobby, and Bre relayed this accusation to Chelsea during a filmed sit-down (E! News reached retired to Jeff’s lawyer and reps for some him and Chelsea aft the allegations were revealed successful a season teaser but didn’t perceive back).
While it initially seemed similar the costars remained connected bully terms, Chelsea past questioned Bre’s intentions for bringing up the allegations connected camera and if she acceptable up the country with Amanda. However, Bre insisted she wasn’t intentionally trying to peddle this drama.
“I f--king told Chelsea already,” Bre explained during a telephone telephone with Chelsea and their costars Chrishell Stause and Emma Hernan. “I’ve already told you guys. I don’t privation to beryllium the 1 f--king involved. I don’t privation to beryllium the 1 that has to travel retired and archer her this s--t. This doesn’t look bully for me. It doesn’t enactment me. It doesn’t consciousness bully for me, particularly aft the information that I’m trying to really person a narration with Chelsea.”
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Bre really claimed Chelsea knew astir the cheating allegations earlier filming adjacent started and that she had a speech with her off-camera.
"I told her months earlier we filmed," she noted to E! Sept. 26. "I told her earlier Amanda was adjacent coming on, and I fto her cognize accumulation asked for this lunch.'"
However, Chelsea tells a antithetic story.
Alleging Bre “didn’t person a storyline” this season, Chelsea told Jessie Woo in a Sept. 9 Instagram Live, “Bre made it precise wide that she had thing connected me,” told production, “and that’s wherefore they gave her the country with Amanda.”
After allegedly proceeding astir the Amanda sit-down from Emma, Chelsea said she asked accumulation to acceptable up a scene betwixt herself and Bre truthful she could perceive the rumor from her straight earlier it dispersed immoderate further.
"I said, 'This is gonna beryllium a storyline,'" she added. “So I said to production, ‘I privation Bre to archer me. The past happening I privation is for this s--t to spell astir to 10 different radical astatine the bureau earlier it comes to me.’”
“I sat determination and watched her beryllium a 'girl’s girl' and marque retired similar she wanted to springiness maine the heads-up for a country that I f--king orchestrated,” Chelsea continued, “because I knew the flip broadside could person been a batch uglier.” (E! News reached retired to Netflix for remark but has yet to perceive back).
As for however the chatter played a relation successful her subsequent divorce, Chelsea insisted to Entertainment Tonight that the rumor “has thing to bash with the deterioriation of my marriage.”
Meanwhile, Mary had her ain play with Chelsea this season. During the show, Mary said she’d been asked by a societal media follower who was the biggest pot-stirrer and picked Chelsea. Afterwards, she claimed, Chelsea sent her a “rude” and “inappropriate” text. Chelsea besides didn’t admit it erstwhile Mary had a speech with their bosses Brett and Jason Oppenheim astir radical telling her Chelsea’s outfit wasn’t work-appropriate.
However, Mary suggests they’ve moved forward.
“For me, I consciousness that we squashed everything," she told E!. “She sent a substance astir something, we had an statement astir it, and past I didn't hold with her outfit—only successful a enactment environment. Like, she could deterioration it out, she looks beauteous successful it, she's a beauteous woman. Just astatine work, erstwhile you're representing clients, I didn't deliberation it was appropriate. But again, hold to disagree.”
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Mary writes astir her emergence to world stardom arsenic good arsenic her idiosyncratic travel off-camera successful her caller memoir Selling Sunshine, which was released by HarperCollins Sept. 24. In the book, she recalls the words she received from Selling Sunset creator Adam DiVello when the amusement archetypal launched: “’I can’t usage what you don’t springiness me. So astatine the extremity of the day, what you accidental and however you enactment is up to you.’”
Eight seasons later, Mary says this operation is inactive valid.
“It’s perfectly true,” she told E!. “People effort to say, ‘Oh no, they’re utilizing this.’ I mean, they tin edit it wherever you don't get the afloat picture. But if you accidental oregon bash something, you did it. You said it. It's close there. So I deliberation sometimes things are taken retired of discourse slightly, but for the astir part, it is what it is.”
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