Mary Bonnet tells ‘Virtual Reali-Tea’ why she quit drinking after intense ‘Selling Sunset’ season

Mary Bonnet tells ‘Virtual Reali-Tea’ why she quit drinking after intense ‘Selling Sunset’ season

on um the radio show you were opening up about how you did take a step back for a little bit and re-evaluated your relationship with alcohol. Yeah. How was that? And how what did you realize during that time for yourself? So it it used to help like like um just you know something would be stressful. I’m like oh like just take the edge off. Um and then well when you live this life it’s like every day there’s something crazy dramatic going on. And then I just started feeling like it was it was causing more anxiety and and I was I mean there was no issues. Nothing bad ever happened. But um but just for myself I’m always very very self-aware and I’m always like I’m very self-critical and and so when I I was looking at I’m like I can’t remember for the last couple months one day where I didn’t have at least one drink. I was like that’s not cool. And so I was like okay we’re going to we’re going to take a break here. And nothing bad happened. and no one ever noticed. I didn’t drop the ball on anything, but for me, just for my health, for my mental health, I thought, we’re going to take a break. And I did. And it was easy and it was good. I feel great. And um now, you know, if I want to go have a toast with somebody or something, I’ll do that. But I’m not into I don’t really want to drink. I don’t want to do anything. I just don’t think it’s serving me um like it used to. What has been the biggest benefit so far to not drinking? Um, I think that I think that I can keep my emotions more in check. Um, and my head is clear where I’m not I’m not um overreacting to things or or stuff like that. Like where I can just from a more calm state of mind without anxiety about what what’s going to happen, is this going to spin out or like whatever the outcome’s going to be. I can look at it from like a very logical standpoint, which I I I a good drinker. I’m always happy and and I like never I always know what I’m doing and and stuff like that. So, I was actually a good drinker. I would never get drunk. Like, it’s just for my health. I just thought this is right in every aspect of my life. I’m going to take a step back. But um um you know, I have mocktails all the time now. And it’s I mean, you feel like it’s the same thing to me. I’m like, you still I had chips and sauce and guac yesterday and and a virgin margarita and I’m like, you know what I’m saying? I’m like to me it’s the same thing. It’s it’s like the festive thing. I don’t need the alcohol in it and my brain’s still super clear afterwards.

Mary Bonnet is entering a new era — one without alcohol.

The “Selling Sunset” star tells Page Six’s “Virtual Real-Tea” that she recently made the choice to stop drinking, a decision that came on the heels of filming a highly emotional Season 9.

It was a season involving clashes with Chelsea Lazkani and Chrishell Stause, as well as the stress of dealing with a traumatic home burglary.

Bonnet, 45, explains that alcohol once served a purpose as she navigated the pressures of reality TV, high-stakes real estate and personal turmoil — but eventually, it stopped helping.

“It used to help. Something would be stressful and … it would just take the edge off,” she explains. “And then when you live this life, well, every day there is something crazy, dramatic going on. And then I started feeling like it was just causing more anxiety.”

Read more at https://pagesix.com/2025/11/10/entertainment/mary-bonnet-reveals-why-she-quit-drinking-after-intense-selling-sunset-season/

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