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Nicole Young is setting the record straight in regard to her drug use after being accused, not only of using cocaine, but of overdosing on it amid the ninth season of Selling Sunset.
As castmate Amanza Smith, 48, admitted during the reunion that she actually had not seen Nicole, 39, use cocaine, as she’d previously alleged, Nicole took to her TikTok account, where she explained why the drug accusations were so triggering, accused Amanza of her own struggles with drug abuse, and wondered why Chrishell Stause, 44, wasn’t more compassionate.
“I am going to talk about this one time and one time only: I am not hiding anything, whatsoever, I am revealing everything because these drug accusations, which I have been dealing with for three years now, and now the escalation of this OD accusation is, it’s just, infuriating and out of hand,” Nicole began on October 29.
According to Nicole, her idea of a “great Saturday night” is 5 mg gummy, a hot tub, and music. She’s also tried molly and mushrooms “a handful of times.” However, when it comes to Chrishell’s claim that she once offered mushrooms to her, she denied any such thing, claiming she’d “never put [herself] in that position.”
“First of all, I wouldn’t offer you anything. Second of all, anyone who has done mushrooms, you do it with a very small amount of circle of people, generally outside, in nature … I would never do mushrooms anywhere near her. Are you kidding me? That would be horrible,” she declared.
Moving on to cocaine, Nicole said she did it once when she was 22.
While Amanza suggested she’d seen her do cocaine, with Mary Bonnet, 45, passing on the info about her experience to Chrishell, Nicole noted that she met both of her castmates on the same night — two months before she turned 30.
“Let me also explain why cocaine is so triggering to me and why I believe they’ve used this against me — because they know it’s a trigger and they know I’m going to react,” she reasoned.
Nicole went on to say that she’d been in a “very tumultuous” seven-year relationship with a man who had since passed when she was 22, sharing that he was a recovering addict who relapsed “countless” times when they were dating.
Looking back on his drug use, Nicole said she was often “scared for her life” because she “didn’t know what he was going to do.”
“He would turn into a raging monster. He would do horrible things. He cheated on me … It traumatized me. I have PTSD from dealing with someone who had a very serious problem with that drug,” she explained.
Because of her hatred for the drug, Nicole doesn’t want it anywhere around her, including in her home, where she alleged that she caught Amanza using it.
“So the fact that Amanza so diabolically and specifically said on camera that we used to do blow together … Not one time ever … We’ve never done any drugs together,” Nicole clarified. “I swear on my husband, my dogs, my family, my sister, her three kids, her two twin boys in her stomach, I swear on my entire family and everyone I love and cherish in my life. Never have I ever, ever done cocaine with Amanza. Ever. And I certainly didn’t overdose on cocaine or any drug. Ever.”
Nicole then targeted Mary and Chrishell, recalling that she once told Mary that she felt like she was having a heart attack when she tried it.
“What a good friend … and so Chrishell took that, ‘Let’s up the ante.’ How evil is that? And yes, I snapped in the moment … who wouldn’t? Especially now that you know my full and complete history. Who wouldn’t snap?” she wondered, giving a nod to her controversial comment about Chrishell’s parents, who are both deceased.
Although Nicole made it clear that she was “not defending” what she said, she claimed it was “irresponsible” of Chrishell to use the allegation to take her down.
“Chrishell, you’ve gone through this, with obviously parents that you loved, but you’re gonna use this as a jab?” she asked. “You don’t have any compassion or empathy, seeing how it — I don’t know the exact details, but obviously it affected you deeply.”
Also on TikTok, Nicole said there were people on her cast who were currently “[struggling] with drug abuse,” including Amanza.
“She has struggled with drug abuse for a very, very, very long time … It started with meth. She graduated to cocaine. But I’m on the chopping block? Really?” she asked.
She then noted, “It’s not defamation if it’s true.”
@itsnicoleyoung Here’s EVERYTHING, the entire backstory of where my hatred for cocaine stems from, what really happened and my entire history. Enough is enough. #sellingsunset #nicoleyoung #amanza #realitytv
As Selling Sunset fans may have seen on the reunion, Amanza came clean about not having seen Nicole use cocaine after previously suggesting she could name “the times and the dates” that they “did it.”
“I believed a story that I heard from multiple people, and in that moment, I used it because I was very upset. I was disappointed in my friend, and I apologize,” Amanza said, via Primetimer. “I apologize because I didn’t see that happen. I never saw you OD. I did not witness this.”
Selling Sunset season nine is currently streaming on Netflix.