Beyond making waves on Selling Sunset and The Traitors, Chrishell Stause has been one half of some very public past relationships.
“I am still a work in progress when it comes to relationships, but I like to think I have learned a bit over the years,” Stause reflected in her 2022 memoir, Under Construction. “I have a history of going for similar types, like actors and performers who are super passionate about everything, including me. At least at first.”
Stause is currently married to Australian musician G Flip, who she met in 2021. However, she’s also had some headline-making romances with ex-husband Justin Hartley, actor Matthew Morrison and with Selling Sunset co-star Jason Oppenheimer
To take a look at Stause’s unexpected dating history, scroll below!
G Flip (2021 – Present)
Stause has been married to G Flip since May 2023. The couple first met in October 2021 at Stause’s Halloween party in 2021 and started a relationship shortly after.
“I recently have been spending a lot of time with someone that’s very important to me,” Stause said at a Selling Sunset reunion episode in May 2022. “Their name is G Flip. They’re non-binary, so they go by they/them. And they are an extremely talented musician.”
“I know that some of you won’t understand this or agree with this but for me, it is about the person,” she explained. “It is about their heart. And yes, there’s that part of you that’s like, what you’re attracted to, but for me, I am attracted to masculine energy and I don’t really care what the physical form is.”
In May 2023, they tied the knot in a secret Las Vegas wedding.
“It was probably the best day of my life, and we had so much fun, and it was just super beautiful and super cute,” Flip told People of their elopement that month.
“It’ll forever be one of the greatest memories of my life,” they continued.
In July 2024, the couple renewed their wedding vows, celebrating their love in G Flip’s home country, Australia. “Never doing life without you @gflip,” Stause captioned an Instagram post showing off the celebration.
Jason Oppenheim (2021)
In July 2021, Stause almost broke the internet when she announced she was dating one of her bosses, Jason Oppenheim. In a since-deleted photo of him kissing her neck in Capri, she wrote, “The JLo effect.”
Later that month, the real estate broker confirmed their relationship. “Chrishell and I became close friends and it has developed into an amazing relationship,” Oppenheim told People. “I care about her deeply and we are very happy together.”
In Dec. 2021, they announced their split after failing to align on having kids.
“While Chrishell and I are no longer together, we remain best friends and we will always love and support one another,” Oppenheim wrote on Instagram. “She was the most amazing girlfriend I’ve ever had, and it was the happiest and most fulfilling relationship of my life.”
“While we have different wants regarding a family, we continue to have the utmost respect for one another,” he continued. “Chrishell is an exceptional human being and loving her and having her in my life is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.”
Stause also made a statement of her own at the time. “Jason was and is my best friend,” she wrote. “The amount of respect and love we have for each other will not change going forward.”
“Men have the luxury of time that women don’t and that’s just the way it goes,” she explained. “All of that being said, navigating this public terrain is difficult and I am just trying my best…I very much hope to one day have a family and decisions I make at this point are with that goal in mind.”
On the show, we saw Oppenheim confirm that he wasn’t sure about kids, at least not at the time.
Keo Motsepe (2020 – 2021)
Stause had a brief romance with Dancing With the Stars pro-dancer Keo Motsepe after appearing on the show’s 29th season in 2020. By December of that year, she and Motsepe went public with their romance.
By February 2021, however, they had called it quits.
In her memoir, Under Construction, Stause alluded to how it all went down.
“I did fall for another love bomber not long after my divorce, and we were quickly heading toward real commitment,” she remembered. “He was a tall dancer, and he started off as this amazing, positive, generous guy. I took him home for Christmas to meet my family.”
“After the honeymoon phase, though, things took a turn,” she said. “This time, instead of making excuses for his behavior, I actually opened my eyes, pushed past the smoke and mirrors, and saw the truth. I’d gotten stronger, and as soon as I realized how deep his apparent lies went, I was the one who ended it.”
Justin Hartley (2013 – 2019)
Stause’s first marriage was to actor Justin Hartley who she married in 2017 before their 2019 divorce.
The pair were introduced in 2013 and connected right away.
“We met up at a concert and talked all night,” the This Is Us star told People in 2017 of his first impression of Stause. “I drove her home and called the next day. We haven’t been apart since. I knew right away [and] was like, ‘Oh boy, here we go.'”
The couple got engaged in 2016 and married in 2017 in an intimate ceremony at Malibu’s Calamigos Ranch.
“The wedding exceeded anything I could have ever imagined,” Stause told People of their big day. “”hey don’t make them any better than Justin, and I could not be more thrilled to officially be Mrs. Hartley!”
By 2019, however, Hartley filed for divorce from Stause citing “irreconcilable differences.” In Selling Sunset‘s season 3, Stause told her co-star Mary Fitzgerald that Hartley informed her of their split via text. “I found out because he texted me that we were filed,” she said. “Forty-five minutes later, the world knew.”
Stause reflected on her split in her memoir, Under Construction.
“Sometimes a healthy relationship that starts out with zero warning signs can turn toxic over time, and you can end up bringing out the worst in each other simply because it wasn’t meant to be,” she wrote.
“If you’re a naturally optimistic person like I am, it’s hard to look for warning signs when you’re falling in love. You’re hopeful, and no one’s perfect, and everything in you wants it to work,” she added.
“I didn’t mind my love life being public, because it was something I was so proud of,” she continued. “However, I never could have predicted how it all came crashing down so forcefully. Divorce is humiliating, and it can make you feel like a failure as a person.”
Graham Bunn (2008 – 2010)
Stause met former basketball player and The Bachelorette star Graham Bunn in 2008 and dated briefly before Stause ended things.
“I met Chrishell and fell in love,” Bunn said in the Click Bait with Bachelor Nation podcast in 2021, per People. “I was like, ‘This is the most adult relationship I’ve ever been in’ … even now.”
Shortly into their relationship, however, Stause was approached to be a contestant in The Bachelor. She then sat Bunn down and chose to go on the show instead of continuing their relationship.
“I gotta give Chrishell all the credit in the world. She came to me — and I don’t know if it broke any kind of legal agreement — but she said, ‘Look, this is what’s going on in my life. I feel like this is what’s best for me and I want to pursue this avenue if it comes for me,'” Bunn said of the moment. “And I wished her well!”
“If it doesn’t work out, maybe we’ll see each other again,'” Bunn said to himself at the time.
But while Stause didn’t actually make the cut to be on the show, Bunn later participated in DeAnna Pappas Stagliano of The Bachelorette in 2008. By the end of it, he and Stause reconnected and dated on and off for two years.
Looking back, Bunn revealed she learned so much from Stause. “I don’t like uncomfortable conversations, and to her credit, she probably doesn’t other, but she’s really good at it,” he said in the podcast.
Matthew Morrison (2006 – 2007)
Before Chrishell made it big as a reality star, she dated none other than Glee actor Matthew Morrison. What a crossover, right?
The two first met in 2006 and got engaged after a year into their relationship. By December 2007, however, they had called it quits.
Speaking of the breakup years later, Glee‘s Mr. Shuester admitted that proposing was an ill-fated decision.
“I didn’t do it for the right reasons,” Morrison told Cosmopolitan of the engagement in 2013, per The Sun. “We’d been going out for a year or so. I was thinking, ‘This is the age when I should probably start having kids, so this is what I should do.’ But after I did it, I immediately felt in my heart it wasn’t right. My instant thought was, ‘What did you just do?'”
On Selling Sunset, Stause alluded to Morrison not being the best partner, calling him a “d—” and saying she’d “kill herself” if she was still with him. But, in her 2022 memoir, Under Construction, she admitted that there’s no real bad blood.
“I dated Glee actor Matthew Morrison in my mid-twenties, and we fell in love and got engaged,” she remembered. “I didn’t fully understand what a healthy, solid relationship looked like, even though of course I thought I did.”
“A lot of time has passed since that relationship ended, and we can both laugh about it all now,” she said, nodding to her Selling Sunset comments. “It’s not like we’re hanging out and bonding every week, but we’ve run into each other a few times over the years and even though I sounded a little angry on Selling Sunset, it’s always cordial.”
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