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Selling Sunset star Mary Bonnet has been open about many of the struggles she’s faced. Now, she’s opening up about her past negative experience with divorce, which led her to ensure there was an iron-clad prenup in place when she walked down the aisle again. Plus, she is discussing her portrayal in season 9 of the show.
Mary, 45, has been married to Romain Bonnet, 32, since 2018. Their union came after her divorce from her second husband in 2017. She’s been on Selling Sunset since it premiered in 2019 and has been working for The Oppenheim Group since 2014.
Mary was on the November 17 episode of the Trading Secrets podcast. While on the show, she openly discussed the previous divorce that led her to file for bankruptcy. She was first asked if she has a “take on prenups,” to which she replied, “I’m very for prenups.”
Mary explained, “My ex-husband, I had to file bankruptcy and everything because I didn’t have one. And he took everything, ran up a bunch of credit in my name. I got back from London and found out my 820 credit score was down under 500.”
She then said that she has developed her prenuptial agreement with Romain as time has passed. This is the case due to her expanding career.
She said, “I have one. And because our situation has changed quite a lot since the beginning of the show when Romain and I got married, we have additional things to it when we bought the house. I’m very fair, and I wanted to make sure, even though I put down the money for it, I make more money, and Romain’s fine with that.”
Mary added, “He doesn’t care, but he contributes. People think, were saying he was a gold digger and stuff. He contributes and always wants to. He’s a very stubborn, stubborn man. I don’t think he would ever try to take my money, but you’d never know. Separations and divorces can get brutal, and people turn into people that they weren’t before, fighting for money.”
Regarding the agreement, she shared, “So we do have that, and basically it states that any money that I put into the house comes back to me first if we sell it, then he gets an amount that we both decided was fair based on when we’re in love and in a good place, what is fair.”
Mary then said, “And then I think that’s good because then you never know what happens, and you don’t want to spend all your money giving it to attorneys. Like you want to do what’s fair when you’re in love, when you have the wits about you to not just try to destroy the person’s life.”
Mary went on discussing the prenup. She said, “Yeah, I mean, it’s pretty ironclad, but I’m also a very fair person. And same thing goes with him. It’s like, I’m not going to try and take anything of his. What you walk into the relationship with, you take out, whatever is. And we still have separate bank accounts. We don’t have joint bank accounts.”
Elsewhere on the podcast, Mary revealed that her largest real estate deal was for $35 million and was closed within a day. Additionally, she says she earns more from social media, around $1 million per year.
In other Mary news, she spoke to US Weekly and revealed how she really feels about the way Selling Sunset season 9 was edited. She said, “They edited it. I really got a bad edit this time. Because there was so much that happened.”
She then expounded upon her thoughts on the editing for the most recent season. According to her, “My reactions were justified. They just didn’t show what it was.”
Mary went on to explain some of her behavior, remarking, “But also, I was on edge, because I just got robbed. I’ve been emotional because I was barely sleeping. I was watching as our neighbors were getting robbed, like every night, so I was watching the cameras.”
The Selling Sunset star went on, “So I’m sure I was emotional and not normal — just with everything going on. But there were reasons behind everything that were legit reasons, and I am not going to tear anyone down by giving specifics.” Romain then interjected.
He said, “There was so much outside that has not been shown. So it’s sad for people [when] it’s the whole story. The viewer just judges on what they see on the show, which is fair. But it’s not the whole story. So it’s just sad.”
Fans can stream Selling Sunset on Netflix.