When things between Chrishell Stause and Justin Hartley were good, they seemed great.
I love him to death."
“I get a kick out of when people see how great he is,” she said.
“I see it as a positive because he really is.”
They had been together for five years when Stause started on “Selling Sunset.”
By the middle of Season 3, however, it was all over.
What seemed like a storybook romance had come to an end.
So, how did they get here?
After all, Hartley was married.
The “Smallville” star wed his “Passions” co-star Lindsay Hartley back in 2004.
“We met up at a concert and talked all night,” Hartley later toldPeople.
“I drove her home and called the next day.
We haven’t been apart since.”
It seems that he wasn’t exaggerating.
To hear them tell it, both actors quickly fell for one another.
She confessed, “The next day I texted my friend: ‘I found him.'”
Justin Hartley, it seems, was just as smitten with his girlfriend.
“This is the person, you know?”
Hartley was nervous about getting married again, considering the fact that his last marriage ended in divorce.
He toldAnthem Magazine, “Divorces are not amazing.
That being said, Hartley evidently felt that he had that special chemistry with Stause.
“You guys think I need sunscreen?”
Despite his initial misgivings, Justin Hartley and Chrishell Stause were headed down the aisle.
According toPeople, 75 guests watched as Stause walked down an aisle covered in rose petals.
“Chrishell was crying and Justin was so moved,” a guest told the outlet.
“The whole ceremony was so personal and heartfelt.”
After getting married, both Stause and Hartley had their eye on growing old together.
Hartley, on the other not-yet-wrinkly hand, told People something similar.
“Someday, we can talk about all the things we did together 30 years ago!”
Stause told People, “The wedding exceeded anything I could have ever imagined.”
She told Us Weekly that they were both working in separate locations.
He was shooting a movie in New Orleans, and they decided to meet up in New York City.
“That’s the sixth on the love languages, if you didn’t know.
So he had a cheese board waiting for me and a bottle of wine.
And it was just so sweet and so nice.”
In 2018, they both starred together in a movie called “Another Time.”
The film’s director Thomas Hennessy had glowing things to say about both actors in an interview withNovelPro Junkie.
Hartley seems to be a devoted dad.
“My daughter’s great, though,” he said.
“She helps me through everything.
We do it together.”
“We’ve got our hands full with high school,” Stause joked.
Ultimately, children together were not in the cards, and the couple would soon encounter trouble.
Stause, as the newest broker, found herself battling with a number of strong personalities at the office.
Curiously absent from the show, however, was much about her personal life.
Series creator Adam DiVello toldVariety, “We certainly asked many, many times.”
Soon, Stause would come to realize this for herself.
“Forty-five minutes later, the world knew.”
Sure enough, news broke that same day that Hartley had moved to divorce his wife.
I was devastated, of course.”
Stause was extremely hurt, the sources said, because she expected her marriage to last no matter what.
“And she did she would have stayed forever.”
Stause writes that she thought about leaving “Selling Sunset,” withdrawing from public life.
She decided to stay in the public eye.
A second source told the outlet, “Chrishell has moved on with her life.”
Wait, let’s back up … selling her wedding ring?
“I was trying to make the best out of a situation.”
A few months later, Stause had found someone new.
Someone very familiar to fans of “Selling Sunset.”
Ultimately, Stause and Oppenheim didn’t last.
While they remained friends and colleagues after splitting up, the relationship ended because Oppenheim did not want children.
“I knew that she was very kind and very nice.
I liked being around her.
But I was in a different place in my life.”
After leaving Stause, Hartley reconnected with his former co-worker.
They confirmed their relationship at the end of the year, posing together on Pernas’Instagram.
While speaking with Haute Living, Hartley confirmed that he and Pernas married in March 2021.
“It’s incredible when you’re not forcing things,” he reflected.
“It doesn’t have to be that hard.”
At a Halloween party in 2021, Stause met G Flip, an Australian musician who is nonbinary.
They were both dressed like skeletons, which seemed like fate.
“My costume would’ve cost me all but $15.
And Chrishell looked like a million-dollar skeleton,” G Flip toldVogue Australia.
“I definitely still thought I was straight at that party!”
Soon enough, though, it became hard for Stause to ignore her feelings.
In a May 2022Instagramvideo, she clarified her sexuality.
In May 2023, Stause posted anInstagram Reelabout her partner.
“Love doesn’t always go as planned,” she wrote in the caption.
She added, “Sometimes it’s immeasurably better.”
