Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause is standing by her comments about Katharine McPhee’s supposed political affiliations.
“If you are in these streets campaigning for Trump-backed Pratt, yeah I’m gonna eye roll your advice on men, Katharine,” Stause, 44, wrote in a since-deleted Threads post on Thursday, May 21, per JustJared.
The Hills alum Spencer Pratt is currently running for mayor of Los Angeles, for which McPhee, 42, and husband David Foster held a fundraiser earlier this month. President Donald Trump has also endorsed Pratt’s candidacy.
Days later, a TikTok user claimed McPhee’s personal life and career is “one of the mcmessiest ones out there.”
“One day she will find her real inner confidence but it won’t come until after she is disgarded [sic] enough times by the problematic men she backs,” Stause replied in the comments section. “An insecure woman will steal your man, and give the worst advice.”
McPhee has since claimed she has “no idea” why Stause was mad at her.
“Honestly I have no idea,” McPhee replied via Instagram on Thursday under E! News’ coverage of the back-and-forth drama. “I am just as confused about this controversy as you Imao.”
As for Stause, she is often outspoken about her political beliefs — especially as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Stause publicly came out as queer in 2022 when she confirmed her relationship with now-spouse G Flip, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.
“When we first came out, we had to wade through some real backlash, but we didn’t care because we were so happy,” Stause exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2025. “Because I look the way I do, people invalidate our relationship or think it’s a phase. Or they say, ‘As soon as you break up, you’re going to go back to guys.’ That’s the one that I get constantly, that this is somehow not the same seriousness of a relationship or that I’m doing it for publicity. Guys, it’s literally been years.”
Stause and G Flip, 32, tied the knot in 2023.
“Real love can defy gender and sexuality,” G Flip told Us last year. “You can fall in love with a person and their heart and who they are. All the preconceived ideas of what that person was meant to be can go out the window, but you’ve got to allow yourself to do that.”
As for Stause, she stressed that her relationship was “limitless.”
“That’s such a beautiful place to love from because your love is standing
on so much more than categories and things that you would fill out in a dating app or get in an algorithm,” Stause said. “It’s built on who they are as a human being, regardless of all the other things, because all the other things are going to change. The best thing I wish people understood about queer relationships is how beautiful they can be.”
