Chelsea Lazkani turned heads immediately when she joined the cast of Selling Sunset. What do you expect when you join as Christine Quinn’s friend with an equally stacked closet?! Not to mention Christine had a feud going with almost every other cast member and needed someone in her corner! Chelsea did her own thing, though, and seemed able to establish herself just fine with the other women at the Oppenheim Group without issue. Everyone except Davina Potratz.
Chelsea and Davina clashed more than once during Season 5. First over a group tea party, and then again during a one-on-one coffee date. “There were things said off-camera and before we shot that really affected my mental state,” Chelsea told People.
“There were some microaggressions thrown out, and watching the show back, I realized that I was very much harboring that state of frustration.” Chelsea added, “You see me kind of escalate to a place of, maybe one could say, anger as a result.”
Season 5 of Selling Sunset treated viewers to the show’s first-ever reunion. Somehow, none of this was covered. Leave it to Adam DiVello I guess. During the filming, Chelsea and Davina seemed to clear the air, with Davina, in particular, seeming ready to move on.
“We don’t have to be super close friends to be cordial with one another,” Chelsea said. “I have the utmost respect for Davina and all of my castmates, truly, but I also believe that we can have different values and different core systems that may not align.” Will Season 6 give us more on that??
Chelsea mused that there were parts of her the other women simply don’t understand. “Maybe my background, maybe the fact that I was so strong and I did come across as having loads of opinions, but everything was purposeful.” Chelsea explained she “didn’t have a voice” when she was younger, so she was determined to come on the show as her “most authentic self.”
Chelsea doesn’t seem concerned about her future at the Oppenheim Group, either. Even though her ally Christine has kicked rocks. “What you didn’t see on camera is my relationship with a lot of the other girls had started to evolve very early on,” she said. “I have many relationships at The O Group, not just Christine.”
TELL US – DID YOU ENJOY CHELSEA DURING SEASON 5? THOUGHTS ON DAVINA’S ALLEGED ACTIONS?
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