Mary Bonnet is now backtracking about the now-infamous “flower bouquet” moment that aired on season nine of Selling Sunset.
The drama started when Chelsea Lazkani sent Mary a bouquet of flowers after Mary’s home was robbed. What should have been a kind gesture quickly spiraled into one of the season’s most heated storylines.
During the reunion, Mary accused Chelsea of only sending her the flowers to look good on camera, but Chelsea insisted she had no idea whether Mary was filming that day.
During an appearance on Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea, Mary claimed the scene was not as spontaneous as it looked on television.
“I was mad at production. I was yelling at production because they staged it,” she said. “Chelsea doesn’t know when my scene is or what time or where, so they had to have set it up.”
Mary said she had already warned producers not to surprise her while filming, explaining that she was emotionally fragile after the robbery.
“I told them, ‘I can’t have anything else that I have to deal with right now. I let you in my house. Don’t pull anything with me.’ And they just kept pushing it,” she recalled. “They were asking, ‘Who’s it from? Who’s it from?’ and I said, ‘Stop. We’re not playing games right now.’”
She admitted she eventually lost her temper, but insists her anger was directed at the crew, not Chelsea. “I wasn’t mad at her,” Mary said. “I was mad at production.”
When the episode aired, viewers accused Mary of being unfair to Chelsea and turning a minor misunderstanding into a bigger moment for herself, and that reaction came across as dismissive and even racially insensitive, since Chelsea is one of the few Black women on the show.
Mary was also slammed for making the following remarks about Chelsea.
“Her struggling-single-mom act is like—that’s—please. She’s got a rich ex-husband that pays her support,” she said. She was forced to apologize after Chelsea revealed that she does not receive any support from her ex.
sooo Jason gifting Mary a fucking Rolex ON CAMERA was not performative but Chelsea sending her flowers that just happened to be delivered while they were filming was? Oh okay, Karen Mary #SellingSunset pic.twitter.com/92q8nskt7o
— Ama (@amackieee) October 31, 2025
Mary and Bre are some of the worst kind of racists. Mary’s racism shows through microaggressions that give her the privilege of plausible deniability, while Bre fetishizes Black men but hates Black women because she thinks being chosen by a BM makes her the prize. #SellingSunset pic.twitter.com/zNFxK0Phak
— Ama (@amackieee) October 31, 2025
Remember when Chelsea told Amanza she’d never know what it’s like to be a dark skinned woman in a pred. white workplace, and Amanza said, “But I’m Black too”? Where is she now that Chelsea’s being racially mistreated by her bestie Mary? Are you not Black too? #SellingSunset pic.twitter.com/zaoJue2610
— Ama (@amackieee) November 1, 2025
The streets are saying Chelsea was fired from the brokerage on #sellingsunset. If true, I will not be watching any franchise with the Oppenheim group. As a previous Mary fan, Mary's reaction to Chelsea was appalling. Not just her emotions, but also pushing for her to be fired. pic.twitter.com/PpAgxIrFvV
— Jarrod D. King (@JarrodDKing) November 4, 2025
What was that reunion?? Emma, you’re an idiot. You can never make me hate Chrishell, she has a brain! Why did we have to see a part of OC?! And FUCK that Mary isn’t called on being a damn racist and freak show!!!
— writergirl (@writergirlll06) November 5, 2025
Cancel this shit. I’m over it. And fuck Tan France #SellingSunset pic.twitter.com/HNakqCEaIz