Eleonora Srugo and Jade Chan, longtime friends, find themselves on opposite sides in Netflix’s Selling the City when Chan secretly coaches Taylor Middleton, a real estate agent on Srugo’s team. Abigail “Abi” Godfrey reveals that Chan not only helped Middleton but also said hurtful things about Srugo, leading to a dramatic season finale.
Selling the City chronicles Srugo and her real estate team’s journey, where Chan is notably absent. Despite their enduring friendship, conflicts arise, with Godfrey exposing Chan’s secret interactions with Middleton to avoid Srugo’s involvement. Godfrey’s revelation of hurtful remarks by Chan adds more tension to their relationship.
The season finale of Selling the City delivers intense moments as secrets come to light. If you found the drama overwhelming, fret not! Dive into our summary of the Season 1 finale, including Chan’s perspective on the unfolding events.
Selling the City has one of the most shocking season finales in reality TV. After Godfrey claims Chan spoke negatively about Srugo, she confronts Chan at the team’s one-year anniversary party. However, Chan wants no part of it, telling Godfrey that she was not up for a conversation. When Godfrey doesn’t let up, Chan storms out, ripping off her mic and covering the camera lens with her hands.
“Youâre a different person off-camera. Youâre very nasty off-camera,” Godfrey calls out.
Meanwhile, Chan threatens to take legal action if any of the scene makes it to the final cut. “If any of this shit fucking airs, I will sue every single one of your asses,” she fumes toward producers, before later adding, “Fuck you, Netflix. Fuck you, Netflix. This is not happening. Fuck Netflix. Fuck everybody.”
Chan did not think Netflix would include the final scenes of Season 1 where she not only broke the fourth wall, but she also cursed out and threatened to sue the streamer if any of her meltdown aired in the final cut.
“To be honest, I was shocked that they broke the fourth wall because the advice I got was if you start saying things like, ‘Don’t film this shit,’ or ‘F-you Netflix,’ none of that stuff would be filmed,” Chan told DECIDER over Zoom. “Lesson learned right there. That doesn’t work.”
One of the things Godfrey confronted Chan about was when she allegedly said she looked “old” behind her back. Instead of denying it, Chan doubled down on her stance right to Godfrey’s face. But, when we talked to Chan, she insisted that there was more to the story than what we saw on the screen.
“Yes, I said it about her, but it actually, in the context of it all, was that we were having a conversation about the fact that Gen Z looks old,” she said. “They look older than what we look like. People still tell me that I look like I’m 30 years old. I’m 38 now. But you have a 27 year old who can actually pass for a 40 year old, not because she’s wrinkly, but just because that’s the nature of Gen Z.”
“There were a lot of things that were pulled out of context, which was also unfortunate,” she added. “But I think that made it unfortunate for her, not me. And if people think I’m an asshole, then that’s going to be their problem, not mine.”
Chan told us that she reacted the way she did because the one-year anniversary party for Srugo’s team was “not the right time” and “not the right place” to hash out their differences. Plus, by that point, they were “an hour past wrap time.”
Despite the tumultuous finale, Chan confirmed that she and Godfrey had “a normal, unheated conversation after the fact.” According to Chan, she eventually learned why Godfrey was so triggered when she initially shut down their conversation.
“I think that after learning why the ‘no’ to her was soâ¦that actually made her go nuts also, just hearing ‘no’ for her own personal reasons, made me also understand why she was chasing me around the room,” she said, before adding, “A lot of triggers on both sides.”
Srugo and Chan’s friendship sure did take a hit in Selling the City. That’s why we asked them where they stand now â especially after that explosive season finale.
“Eleonora, I think, is working through what she saw because I fully spoke my truth. I’ll speak for myself. I’m fine,” Chan said. “There were plenty of stabs that were coming towards me as well. She aired a lot of stuff about me. Did I want the world to know I smoke weed? Not necessarily, but here I am admitting it.”
Srugo, for her part, said she takes Chan “at face value.”
“I know who she is. Iâve known her for a long enough time to understand that this is what I get,” Srugo told DECIDER. “So, I wasnât surprised by anything. Itâs exactly what I expected. Personally, itâs not how I define friendship, but itâs a relationship that I sort of justâ¦weâre colleagues. Weâre colleagues at Douglas Elliman, and weâre colleagues on this new venture now.”
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