I know our gorls love to place blame on the audience for their behavior, but I do think the audience is a big reason we are at where we are right now with Chantal in this current arc. Regardless of how much of it is truth vs lies, I speculate the OG story was supposed to make her sound hot and badass, but the audience wasn't impressed and a majority of the reactions were not positive. I wouldn't be surprised that if the audience HAD been cheering her on and in awe of her edgy behavior she might've not seen him again - making herself look like she had the upperhand and was ~too good to keep seeing him. Instead she got defensive. She returned with a re-vamped, audience-friendly version of her Egyptian lover, trying to chase that dopamine hit of audience adulation and praise. They talked and cuddled! He farted so that must mean they are super compatible! They didn't do cocaine (but they did do edibles) but they dont need drugs to tolerate each other! But her usually cult-like audience still wasn't having it. So now she's become increasingly defiant, lashing out and teetering on the edge of a full chimpout. She tried to punish them at the start of the weekend by claiming she was withholding lives. But she's an addict so it didn't stick right away. But now she's got it. She's left them hanging, choosing her head chef, professional soccer player, booked singer, licensed massage therapist, titty-punching sex god instead. Real or fake, she's gone all in (at least in part) because she resents her audience for not worshiping her recklessness and tangle of mismatched information.
Unrelated, but I have to say I'm really surprised we don't hear about grandma more often. Not because I think she's capable of really caring about anyone but herself, but because it seems like such an easy way to garner a bit of sympathy here and there. (Like how she rarely missed an opportunity to show what a gOoD pErSoN she was by mentioning bringing grandma food or helping her around her house.) IIRC the last time we got a significant, sad sack grannie update was when she was trying to deflect from the plethora of new horrifying health problems she'd been diagnosed with. Really surprised she isn't milking the situation more.