Stassi Schroeder Details 'Pump Rules' Firing Timeline, Spinoff Plans (2024)

Nearly two years after she was fired from Vanderpump Rules, Stassi Schroeder is sharing her side of the story in her new book, Off With My Head: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom.The 33-year-old Bravo alum began her Tuesday, April 26, release by acknowledging that she made “huge” mistakes before she was “canceled” in June 2020. At the time, Schroeder was under fire for a resurfaced podcast clip in which she revealed she and Kristen Doute told the police via a tip line that a Black woman accused of robbery could be their former costar Faith Stowers.In the book, Schroeder wrote that she had “zero right to accuse” Stowers of committing a crime, noting that she “sensationalized” the situation “for the sake of a good podcast story.” The Next Level Basic author also acknowledged that “just because it wasn't about race for me, doesn't mean that it wasn't about race for Faith.” Instead, Schroeder said she was motivated by Jax Taylor cheating on Brittany Cartwright with Stowers during season 6 of Vanderpump Rules.“She deeply hurt my friend. I was absolutely motivated by that. And I was motivated by the fact that I thought she was guilty of these crimes,” she wrote. “I basically thought I was the karma God just dishing it out exactly where I felt it should be.”[sendtonews type="float" key="iwUFEuD9mK-2831889-14453"]Us Weekly confirmed on June 9, 2020, that Schroeder and Doute were let go by the network after eight seasons on Vanderpump Rules. The news came two days after they publicly apologized for their actions, which originally happened in 2018. According to Schroeder, several producers of the reality show fought for the women not to lose their jobs, claiming they were “outraged” when they learned the news on social media.“They'd been around when the original call to the tip line happened,” she wrote, alleging that producers “pleaded with Bravo" and said that "our behavior was encouraged by being on Vanderpump Rules. I mean, this is the s—t Vanderpump Rules is about — exposing people, calling them out.”Throughout the first chapter, Schroeder documented the “seven days in hell” in which she lost several endorsem*nt deals, her agents and her job at Bravo. She also claimed that the network was planning to use her wedding to Beau Clark as a launchpad for a Vanderpump Rules spinoff starring the other original cast members.“Just imagine making a terrible mistake, but one that has nothing to do with how good you are at your job. And one that doesn't truly reflect who you are,” Schroeder wrote. “You're told to stay quiet. You're already ashamed of the mistake you made. You already want to fix it. But on top of that, every single person you know or have ever met knows about this mistake.”Off With My Head is available now. Scroll through for a timeline from Schroeder regarding her “cancelation”:

Schroeder, who previously came under fire for her comments about diversity at the Oscars in 2017 and her “Nazi chic” Instagram caption in 2018, admitted that she wasn’t surprised when “Straight Up With Stassi” lost sponsors in 2020.

The reality star was more upset and surprised when her longtime publicist called and revealed that the firm was dropping her as a client. She wrote that the decision came two hours after her June 7, 2020, apology that she had to get approved by Bravo — "ironic considering they fired me two days later" — but also "an apology that those very publicists had helped me write.” (Schroeder wrote that she wasn’t even “ready to apologize” and regrets issuing the apology when she did.)

According to Schroeder, her publicist was crying and cited her boss as the reason why she couldn’t work with her anymore. The two women never spoke again despite her publicist’s tears and Schroeder’s claims that they promised to stay friends.

“I paid them, but they could still fire me for the exact scandals that they were not only aware of for years, but that they helped me through?” she wrote. “They didn't think they were fire-worthy before, but in June 2020, they sure did.”

After Variety broke the news of Schroeder’s PR team dropping her, she got a call from her agent that the agency would no longer represent her. “Just like, that my team was wiped out. My PR, my manager, my main agent, my book agent, my sponsor agent, my podcast agent, my touring agent," she wrote. “I was lost.”

On the fifth day of what Schroeder refers to as the “canceling of 2020,” she woke up to texts from Doute and missed calls from her lawyer, informing her that she and her fellow former SURver would not be back for season 9 of Vanderpump Rules.

Two hours after Bravo posted the statement, Schroeder got a call from Lisa Vanderpump. “I was in the fetal position crying so yeah, I wasn't really calling people back,” she wrote. Schroeder ran into the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills one year later and they had an “oddly comforting” conversation.

On day six, Schroeder learned her podcast company had scrubbed her show from iTunes. “Almost six years of podcasting vanished,” she wrote. The following day, she learned that the venues previously booked for her tour dates had backed out and her “animated series deal” with Sony was terminated.

Schroeder was 10 weeks pregnant with daughter Hartford at the time.

The day she and Doute learned they were fired by Bravo, the two women “began texting each other” after leaving season 8 on nonspeaking terms.

“Our last season of Vanderpump Rules focused heavily on the demise of our friendship. So much toxicity had seeped in and we became incapable of getting along,” she wrote. “But there's nothing like tragedy to bring people together. … What we went through was so traumatizing that it made all of our past friendship issues seem like nothing. It was more important to be there for each other than to hold on to grudges. There was no conversation about the past. We just let it go.”

According to Schroeder, who was planning to marry Clark in Italy in front of Bravo cameras on season 9 of Vanderpump Rules, the production company was considering spinning off the original cast members onto their own series before Schroeder and Doute were fired.

When the initial firing happened, Schroeder held out hope because Bravo’s statement specifically said she and Doute were let go specifically from Vanderpump Rules.

“The Vanderpump spinoff was supposed to be bridged by an episode about my gorgeous, Italian wedding, which would then introduce the new show. Surprise! We were all so looking forward to that,” she wrote. “At first, we thought the spinoff would still go ahead with some sort of focus on the canceling and the journeys to educate ourselves.”

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