She seems to make a lot of excuses along the lines of: "Because of CoD." She can't find an apartment, gigs are down, etc.
Notes on finding an apartment during the Covid-19 pandemic:
Most owners of rental units do not like those rental units to remain vacant one day longer than they have to (there are notable exceptions, especially in places like LA, but they're not really relevant here). Real property is an endless money sink, and if it's not earning money it's still demanding to have money spent on it. Smaller landlords operating on much thinner margins are especially motivated to keep their units filled with paying tenants.
So anybody with a vacant unit they want to see occupied is going to advertise it, and they're going to figure out how to handle showing it, going over the checlkist, and getting the paperwork signed, pandemic be damned. It's weird and inconvenient as fuck, but not really that hard.
Anybody who is looking for an apartment right now, who is a solid tenant with a steady income and acceptable credit rating, can find an apartment. There are landlords out there who will be fucking delighted to do what it takes to get you into one of their empty units, pandemic or no pandemic. In fact, if you are capable of paying rent, you are fucking
golden, because some previously-reliable tenants simply can't right now--and there's also the bullshitters who claim they can't, but you're not allowed to kick them out.
Tess hasn't found an apartment, because she isn't looking, because she can't afford one. Even if she could scrape together enough to move in, her credit rating is no doubt shot to shit, and if she and Nicky-boy got evicted from the Long Beach shanty for non-payment, she's poison.
And of course Covid-19 was still just a twinkle in some Chinese bat's eye back when Nick flew back to Oz and Tess moved in with Jolene. She had at least four months pre-Covid, when she was still capable of getting work because the fashion industry hadn't yet ground to a near-halt, to find another crappy little Long Beach rental, and she couldn't swing it. And that's all you really need to know.
(And she's dumb enough to think that once Covid is over the fashion industry will have any jobs left for her, and she'll start making money again. Boy, is she in for a rude awakening; the full catastrophe in that industry hasn't even hit yet. People incalculably more skilled and talented than she could ever be are going to lose their entire livelihoods; it's fucking ugly.)
She shouldn't worry about being cancelled. Her appeal was always limited & time is never kind to people like her. She's over - just too dumb to know it yet.
Oh, she'll still get cancelled; she's got too many people out there who already know just how fucking awful she is; she's indiscriminately ass-kissing too many people who barely know who she is just for woke points; I'm sure she's annoying the shit out of the gays she depend on with her "queer" posturing; and she's shitting the bed in her own Insta comments section by being an openly belligerent, mean-spirited cunt.
It doesn't matter that her career's over, she's still got a bit of momentum left over and enough followers to keep her convinced she's somebody, and that once Covid-19 goes away her big comeback is inevitable. Denial's a hell of a drug. But getting cancelled would still be her worst nightmare; she'd actually have to face the fact she's done, over,
finito.