‘Owning Manhattan’ Star Jade Shenker Confirms Her TikTok About “Mean Girls” Was About Her Co-Stars: “It’s Kind Of Sh*tty When You Walk Into A Room And Everyone Stops Talking”

Jade Shenker is in her IDGAF era.

The Owning Manhattan star stopped by DECIDER’s studio ahead of the Netflix show’s second season, and she opened up about a recent TikTok video she posted about “mean girls” and “always” finding them in her life.

Shenker confirmed to DECIDER that she was, in fact, referring to some of her fellow SERHANT agents, sharing that there are “a lot of people” who see her be herself and become “pretty mean.” While she didn’t divulge too many details (or names), Shenker noted that her co-stars on Owning Manhattan have grown to feel like siblings.

“I’m an only child, so I never had to deal with siblings. But on a reality show, it’s kind of like your cast members are your siblings and you have to deal with them,” she said. “It’s kind of shitty when you walk into a room and everyone stops talking. It kind of sucks.”

“But I think I’ve just learned to just not let it affect me,” she added. “I’m a Pisces. I’m so sensitive. So, I’ve kind of had to learn to shut that sensitivity off and just kind of like, ‘Well, if you guys don’t like me, then F you.’”

Shenker wanted to make it perfectly clear that she was not speaking about her on-again-off-again bestie, Chloe Tucker Caine, despite their falling out in Owning Manhattan. The duo began beefing in the show’s first season after Shenker revealed to Tucker Caine that her husband was having an affair. Instead of offering her consolidation, Tucker Caine was not only angry that Shenker took so long to tell her the information, but that she told others first.

While they ultimately made up at the end of Season 1, they were back to not speaking at the start of Season 2 as Shenker claimed in her confessionals that she felt like Tucker Caine took her ex-husband’s side in their split, especially after seeing him on her Instagram Story, which only poured “salt on a wound.”

“Chloe talks about everything. She just speaks her mind a lot with people. For me, I need some time to process,” Shenker explained. “We’d kind of have some talks here and there. We kind of didn’t. We were back and forth, so it was hard to really heal from that while seeing certain things.”

However, Shenker credited their time on a reality show for bringing them back together in the end.

“When you’re on a reality show, it forces you to talk about it, which honestly has been so therapeutic for me,” she said. “I do love her. I think I’ve said this before, but we both think really big and that’s kind of hard to find when someone has these massive dreams. That’s why I started working with Ryan [Serhant]. Ryan shoots for the absolute stars. There’s not that many of us.”

“At the end of the day, I think, at the time, it was just us not communicating properly and probably assuming,” she continued. “I do think there was probably a lot of people who didn’t like me in the office kind of influencing Chloe at that time, too.”

Shenker also addressed Tucker Caine and Tricia Lee‘s claims that many people in their office questioned whether she made up the affair allegations to have a storyline on the show.

“To be honest, it’s insulting. I think it’s insulting as a professional. It’s insulting as a businesswoman,” she said. “I think it’s a low blow. Why would you assume? In hearing that multiple cast members thought that it’s kind of dirty. I hate it. It’s sad and it’s definitely hurtful.”

“I think if I was 2023 Jade and that happened, it would definitely hurt me,” Shenker added. “But now I’m just like, ‘OK. What else are you guys gonna think? That I have a tail?’ I don’t know. The things that I hear in the office sometimes are actually wild.”

Owning Manhattan Season 2 is currently streaming on Netflix.