the selling sunset star and g flip are over after four years. she filmed it instead of writing it. nobody talk to me.

Left: Chrishell Stause at a 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards event. Photo: Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Right: G Flip performing in Brighton, 2018. Photo: Drew de F Fawkes, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

via Them, QNews and Stause's own video, as reposted by E! News

Most celebrity breakups arrive as a Notes app screenshot with the warmth of a parking ticket. Chrishell Stause looked at that option on Monday and decided she couldn't do it.

"G and I are no longer together," she said in a video posted to Instagram on Oct. 26, her voice catching, explaining that the two had agreed to treat the public separation with love and respect. She said she felt her followers "deserved a little bit more than a cold written statement," and then said the part that made the clip travel: "I am in love with this person and I don't have all the information or the reasons."

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G Flip, the Melbourne-born, nonbinary musician Stause first went public with on a 2022 Selling Sunset reunion, posted a few lines soon after. "After 4+ years Chrishell and I are no longer together," they wrote, adding: "I will always love her, we will always share a special connection and I cherish our memories together deeply." They said their "head & heart are feeling very heavy" and asked for privacy, according to the statement as printed by both Them and QNews.

Stause, for her part, said in the video that she "will always love G" and doesn't "ever really see that changing." She also said, plainly, "I feel like a little bit of a failure." Neither of them gave a reason.

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They were, for a few years, one of the most visible queer couples on reality TV that wasn't on a show about queer people: a real estate agent on a very straight Netflix series and an Australian drummer-singer who turned up in each other's lives at, per QNews, a Halloween party. They married, and by Them's count kept renewing their vows at themed ceremonies, which is the most lesbian sentence available in the English language.

We'd like to stay mad at someone, but she made that impossible. Go hug your partner. Or, if you're single, enjoy the brief, smug feeling of having nothing to announce.