On Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, junior stew Danni Warren was looking for love. In quick succession, she made out with first mate Gary King, spent the night with a random beach club worker Anthony, and attempted (unsuccessfully) to snare deckhand Keith Allen.
It was only toward the end of the season that Danni set her sights on replacement deckhand Chase Lemacks. Though they had a rocky relationship on the Parsifal III, they continued to date for about eight months following the end of the season.
Now Danni claims her relationship with Chase “went so toxic” before they eventually broke up.
Danni Warren details her and Chase Lemacks’ “toxic relationship”
Danni had a lot to say to the hosts of the British podcast Access All Areas. Bobby Norris and Ellen Coughlan got an earful.
“We would just fight all the time, over money,” she said. “We didn’t have any money. It was really brutal. We couldn’t afford to eat. I was struggling with health issues and stuff.” According to Danni, Chase was “focused on work,” while she was “in bed dying.”
Apparently, Danni went to visit Chase on his sailboat after the end of the charter season. Things must have gone well because she ended up staying and sailing all over the world with him. But life was less than perfect.
“I didn’t really have anything,” she explained. “I didn’t have my own money, [because] I gave it all to the boat.”
Eventually, Danni got a job and “went overseas [to] earn some money … Get a bit of my identity back.”
She thought being apart for a bit would help their relationship, and for a while, it seemed to. But then one day, the South African native decided to send her American boyfriend some spicy nude pics. But the photos had the opposite effect than she’d hoped.
“I got a phone call, saying, ‘I’m done with you,’” she said. Ouch.
After the ups and downs of their relationship on the boat, I didn’t expect them to continue to see each other. At the end of the season, Chase expressed a lack of trust in Danni. She admitted that she lied to him about her relationship with Anthony, and that didn’t sit well with Chase.
I’m actually surprised they lasted as long as they did.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht is now streaming on Peacock.
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