Chrishell Stause put her wedding ring to good use after her divorce.
The Selling Sunset star, 40, said on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday that she sold her ring – from her marriage to This Is Us’ Justin Hartley – to buy a new house.
“If sometimes life gives you lemons, sometimes you need to add a little vodka,” Stause told Clarkson when he pawned the bullet. “Yes, I tried to make the best of a situation.”
She might have given Clarkson an idea.
“I LOVE this,” quipped the host, who just finalized her own divorce from Brandon Blackstock. “That’s funny… What are you supposed to do: Carry on?!… You did something good with the money.”
Stause told Clarkson her music got her “through a lot of breakups.” Clarkson replied, laughing, “Me too!”
Stause writes about her past relationships in her new book, Under Construction: Because Living in My Best Life Took a Little Work.
Chrishell Stause on The Kelly Clarkson Show says she sold her wedding ring to buy her new house. (Photo: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
“There’s so much being said out there — and sometimes there’s not a lot of context,” she said. “I come from a healing place — I’m past these things … there’s no anger — so it’s nice to give context and tell a story that a lot of people associate with these things happening.”
Stause and Hartley met as soap opera stars and married in 2017. He filed for divorce in 2019, which she said abruptly, only telling her 45 minutes before. Selling Sunset viewers watched as the divorce unfolded during the reality show’s third season. Hartley remarried his former Young and the Restless co-star, Sofia Pernas, in 2021.
Stause – who was engaged to Matthew Morrison before Hartley and later dated Dancing With the Stars pro Keo Motsepe and her Selling Sunset boss Jason Oppenheim – bought a home worth 3 last summer after her 2021 divorce from Hartley, $3 million. It’s a 4.5-room, four-bathroom home in the Hollywood Hills, which she calls her “dream home.”
She and Hartley previously shared a $4.65 million home in Encino, California.