Amidst the stars aligning for drama, former “Selling Sunset” star, Davina Potratz, is stirring the cosmic pot! She recently spilled some spicy tea on the Netflix reality series, suggesting that viewers may not have seen the whole story behind the show’s fiery confrontations and tangled relationships. Leaving the reality world after Season 4, she opened up exclusively to Smooth Spins Casino about the mischief happening off-camera, throwing shade at her co-star Chrishell Stause for her alleged dual personas. With the planets shifting and secrets surfacing, one can’t help but wonder: Are the friendships forged on screen as genuine as they seem, or are they mostly for show? And as the Scorpio moon affects our relationships, it seems the truth about these connections is finally coming to light. Click through to dive deeper into the revelations that are shaking up the “Selling Sunset” universe!
Davina Potratz is pulling back the curtain on “Selling Sunset,” claiming viewers did not always receive the complete picture of its explosive confrontations and complicated friendships. The former cast member, who left the Netflix reality series after Season 4, also named Chrishell Stause as the co-star who she believes behaved most differently once filming began.

Speaking exclusively to Smooth Spins Casino, Potratz discussed the show’s production process, scenes she believes were edited unfairly, and the friendships that survived after she stepped away.
When asked which cast member surprised her most during filming, Potratz singled out Stause and accused her of presenting a different personality on camera. “I would say Chrishell was very different on and off camera,” she said. “Fakeness personally rubs me up the wrong way, and when someone is extremely removed from how they are when the cameras are rolling, it’s irritating.”
Potratz also claimed that several cast members avoided voicing their true opinions because they feared receiving the same kind of backlash she experienced. “It takes a little while to figure a person out. But I think in general, a lot of people in the cast did not speak their mind,” she explained. “They were likely afraid because of what they saw happen to me when I did. People would just agree with things they didn’t necessarily agree with.”
Offering her assessment of Stause away from filming, Potratz alleged that her former co-star sometimes displayed “attitude” toward members of the production crew. “She had some attitude from the beginning, which I didn’t like. She had different attitudes with the crew, which I didn’t love,” Potratz claimed. “We spent a lot of time with the cameramen and got along great, and she would sometimes be sassy. I didn’t respect that.”

One of Potratz’s most controversial moments unfolded during Christine Quinn’s wedding, when she challenged Stause about her divorce from Justin Hartley. Looking back, Potratz claimed the final edit removed comments that would have given viewers more context.
“It was definitely edited. Maybe it ran too long and production was forced to cut things out, but viewers didn’t see the whole picture,” she said. “Maya and Heather were defending me, but their comments were muted out. On top of that, music was layered over the scene, and a lot of the conversation was edited down, so it came across like I was just relentlessly coming at her. That’s not really how it happened.”
Potratz said she was attempting to establish that there were two perspectives to the breakup, but felt Stause allowed the uncomfortable exchange to continue because she understood how it could appear on television.
“Chrishell had more experience in TV, and fair play to her. She wasn’t exactly stopping the conversation. She’d say, ‘It’s okay, keep going,’ and she’d nod along. She was baiting me,” Potratz alleged. “Looking back, it was smart of her. She wasn’t stopping it. It felt like she knew what was going to happen and took advantage of me in that scene.”

According to Potratz, cast members often received little advance notice about what they would be filming or who might appear in a scene. “We’d usually get an email by about 9 pm the night before telling us what we were filming the next day,” she recalled.
The schedule might include an office meeting and dinner, requiring the agents to plan multiple outfits, hair and makeup. However, Potratz claimed producers kept enough details secret to preserve spontaneous reactions.
“You’d maybe call the person you were filming with and ask, ‘What are you wearing? Who do you think is coming?’ But you never really knew who would be there or what was going to happen, so there wasn’t much planning you could do,” she explained.
Potratz said the cast would speak with producers before filming but generally would not discuss the scene with one another beforehand. As a result, she maintained that the emotions captured by the cameras were genuine, even if the resulting footage was later condensed for television.

Potratz also revealed that she once considered Emma Hernan a close friend, although viewers were never shown their bond. “Emma and I were actually very close friends, but nobody knew that,” she said. “That was my issue with it because it felt like, ‘You want to be best friends behind the scenes, but then you’re a different person on camera.’”
She claimed that she eventually confronted Hernan while filming, but the exchange was cut from the series. “When I started piecing everything together, I was really shocked and really offended. I actually called her out on camera, but it never made the show,” Potratz shared. “Chrishell came to her rescue, and I remember thinking, ‘You’ll see who she really is.’ Sure enough, she did.”
Potratz said she was therefore not surprised when Stause and Hernan later experienced problems in their own friendship.

Despite the numerous relationships that deteriorated during or after the show, Potratz said her friendships with Quinn and Maya Vander have endured.
“Maya and I are still really close, and Christine and I are really close. Those friendships were always real,” she revealed. “What people saw, whether it was loyalty or arguments, was authentic.”
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