Chrishell Stause Called Amanza Smith’s Stylist “Super Homophobic.” Here’s Why

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Watching Chrishell Stause come out, establish boundaries, and fiercely defend her relationship with nonbinary drummer G Flip has been one of the highlights of Selling Sunset. Amid all the click-clacking high heels and the smoggy million-dollar views, the reality show has also managed to tell a story about a queer woman coming into her own power.

That through line continues in the eighth season of the show, which premiered on Netflix on September 6. In the season’s third episode, fellow Oppenheim Group realtor Amanza Smith invites Stause to her birthday party, only for Stause to pull Smith aside in the office to share the reason why she felt she could not attend.

“Is your stylist coming to your birthday party?” Stause asks, explaining, “He’s super homophobic and attacked me and G, so I’m not gonna be in the same room as him.”

We stan a direct queen! Although that one-on-one conversation in the office ended on an uneasy note, with the pair getting into a light argument over the stylist’s Instagram comments, Stause later appears at the birthday bash after all. “Amanza told me the stylist that I’ve had a problem with — he won’t be coming, and that really just means a lot to me,” she informs the audience in voiceover.

But what exactly happened between Chrishell Stause and Amanza Smith’s stylist? Below, read everything we know about the exchange — and how it ended.

What did Amanza Smith’s stylist say about Chrishell and G Flip?

Although most of the June 2023 exchange between Amanza’s stylist Sammie Moussallem and Stause occurred in Instagram Stories that are no longer publicly available, various entertainment outlets captured some of the homophobia Stause experienced at that time.

After correcting a Vice article that misidentified Moussallem as Stause’s stylist for a particular Ivy Park look on Selling Sunset, Stause alleged that Moussallem went on a “spiraling rant of ongoing dms and voice notes” in response, according to screenshots published by Cosmopolitan.

Per Cosmo, Moussallem shared several Stories in response to the correction, one of which read, “Chrishell please stop being lesbian the acting is not real. The proof is all I need. So Chrisell stick a d cause our h o l e g flip hasn’t given you any action.”

On the eighth season of Selling Sunset, Stause recapped the exchange as follows: “He went on a very public rant, just saying that I’m a fake lesbian, that I’m nothing but a green card to G, saying that I got to get some dick in my hole.”

Complicating matters somewhat is that Moussallem himself is openly gay, but as Stause rhetorically asked, “Does that excuse any of those comments?” Answer: No, it does not.

What did Amanza Smith say about the stylist’s comments on the show?

In a tense hot seat segment, the reality star stuck up for her marriage to the nonbinary artist.

On the new season of Selling Sunset, Smith makes it clear during an in-the-moment interview that she does not co-sign Moussallem’s comments. “I don’t agree at all with what the stylist said about G and Chrishell’s relationship and I’ve made it very clear that these things can never happen again,” she says. “So where I am with the stylist is, we’re good, but now with Chrishell, this is tricky, this is messy, because I don’t want to lose her friendship over this.”

Later in the episode, when Smith disinvites Moussallem from the birthday party, Stause says, “It does feel like she’s making a stand for our friendship, and I can’t wait to celebrate her birthday.”

What has Sammie Moussallem said about the episode now?

In a September 9 exclusive for People, Moussallem issued an apology for his resurfaced June 2023 comments.

“I apologize for it,” the stylist told the entertainment outlet. “Six months ago, me being a professional, I tried to contact her many times, whether through my publicist or through my manager who represents me to contact her to have a conversation with her and she hasn't responded.”

He continued: “I said it out of spite and what I said before, I didn’t really mean. I overreacted ... I should have never said what I said on social media.”

Claiming that the backlash has “affected [his] business,” Moussallem expressed a desire to “move on from this and be adults.”

How does Amanza Smith feel about Sammie Moussallem’s comments now?

In the same People exclusive, Smith said that she “felt a little bit bad when [she] uninvited [Moussallem]” from her birthday party, but “only a little bit, because you make your bed, [now lie in it], you know?”

Calling Moussallem’s original comments “horrific,” the realtor and artist said, “It’s nice to hear an apology” while speculating that “it’s not gonna change anything with Chrishell.”

What has Chrishell Stause said about the exchange?

Stause’s team did not respond to People’s requests for comment, and she has not made any public statements about Sammie Moussallem since the season aired. But at the risk of editorializing, I personally hope she’s not spending any more time in her one wild and precious life thinking about someone who called her queerness “acting.”

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