Southern Charm's Austen Kroll and Chelsea Meissner shed new light on whether they're friends, years after their breakup
While Austen Kroll and his ex-girlfriend, Chelsea Meissner, have moved on from their romance after they broke up in 2017, it seems the pair remain in contact. In fact, the Southern Charm cast member still has fond memories of a 2017 trip to Key West that he took with Chelsea and their friends.
Chelsea took to her Instagram Story recently, where she posted an old photo of her, Austen, Craig Conover, and Shep Rose, standing on a dock together, while a camera in the background captured it all. Everyone looked so happy in their swimsuits and coverups, as they held beverages in their hands and smiled for the camera. "Vintage finds," Chelsea wrote in the caption of the post, along with a sweating-smile emoji.
Austen then reposted the photo to his own Instagram Story, where he shared some behind-the-scenes information about the Southern Charm Season 4 cast trip to Florida. "Whoahhh Key West! My first cast trip," he wrote. "The guys had either just finished banana boating (unseen footage) OR Chels and I were about to go parasailing!"
Austen Kroll opens up about his friendship with Chelsea Meissner
During a December 2020 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Austen opened up about whether he would rekindle his relationship with Chelsea. Austen, who had just gotten out of a relationship with Madison LeCroy at the time, insisted that they were just friends.
"Gosh, I mean, after going through what I went through with Madison, to look at someone like Chelsea would be like, 'Oh my God, you are an angel sent from frickin' heaven,'" Austen said at the time. "But, I think that, honestly, that Chelsea and I have moved into [the] friend realm. We just realized that she and I are so, so, so different."
