Chrishelle Stause Shut Down While Evacuating L.A. Home, 'Frozen' by Memory of Seeing Her House Burn Down at 12

Chrishell Stause reveals she had an unexpected reaction she couldn’t shake while evacuating her home in Los Angeles amid ongoing wildfires.

The Selling Sunset star, 43, shared in the latest episode of the series Sherri show on Wednesday, January 15 that she froze as the fires began to approach the home she shares with partner G Flip.

“When we had to evacuate, there was a fire as if it was in our yard. It was immediately like, you have to go.” Stause recalled the order to evacuate. But instead of preparing to leave, at that point she says, “I just froze with fear.”

“When I was 12 years old, I watched my house burn. But that’s something you don’t think about. It happened so long ago,” the Kentucky native explained of his childhood trauma.

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Fortunately, Stause said her partner, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, took control of the situation. “G was like doing all these things, he came back and I’m still standing where they left me,” Chrishell recalls.

“They’re so amazing. They were basically like, okay, and they just started walking me through things,” she added.

The seller of luxury real estate says that at that moment she was surprised by her own answer. “You don’t know how you’re going to react,” she said. “I think I wish I thought I was good in an emergency. But this kind of showed me that I really needed a little kick in the ass, and G was there to keep me focused and it was nice to have them.”

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Stause and the Australian musician moved into her LA home together in 2022 and married in May 2023.

The reality star and her partner are among the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the numerous wildfires burning in LA, which have also destroyed thousands of homes and property, according to city officials.

When asked by host Sherri Shepherd about her thoughts on the looming housing crisis caused by the destruction, Stause, who works as an agent at The Oppenheim Group, admitted she thinks we have a long road to recovery.

“I’ll be honest. The destruction is at such a level that it will take time,” she said. “But we are lobbying to try to make things go faster than usual.”

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“There’s usually a lot of red tape,” she continued. “Our office is one that really tries to help as much as we can. We help people, obviously for free, we try to accommodate as many people as possible. So it was all hands on deck.”

While Stause’s home appears to have survived based on an Instagram Story in which she says firefighters were able to “quickly put out the fire,” many other celebrities have been confirmed to have lost their homes in the fires, including Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Miles and Keleigh Teller, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Joshua Jackson, Anna Faris, Ricki Lake, Cameron Mathison, and Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag,

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