With a cheerful marriage, 4 wholesome children, and a wildly standard new HGTV present, Chelsea Houska is on prime of the world nowadays.

However nobody reaches that stage of happiness and success with out attracting a couple of haters, so it’s not stunning that plenty of individuals are throwing stones at Chelsea nowadays.

For essentially the most half, the vitriol takes the type of comparatively innocuous social media trolling.

Nevertheless it appears as if one firm is taking issues a step additional by doing battle with Houska in courtroom.

As we beforehand reported, Chelsea and husband Cole DeBoer are being sued by a consulting firm referred to as Envy.

Envy claims that promotions they ran for Chelsea and Cole’s social media pages helped earn tens of millions for the couple.

They allege that the DeBoers lied about how a lot they earned from these promotions, thus depriving Envy of a $3 million reduce.

Envy filed go well with in opposition to Chelsea and Cole final 12 months, and there was a time when it regarded just like the couple would settle out of courtroom, if solely to keep away from additional unhealthy press.

Maybe they’ve been emboldened by the truth that their HGTV present has already been picked up for a second season, or possibly they only don’t really feel like paying out tens of millions after they don’t consider they did something mistaken.

Regardless of the case, evidently the DeBoers have declined to settle the go well with, and can quickly face off in opposition to Envy in courtroom.

“The events don’t search a settlement convention at the moment,” reads a courtroom doc obtained this week by UK tabloid The Solar.

“Chelsea and Cole breached their contracts by directing sure Manufacturers to straight pay Chelsea, Cole, one of many different Shared Purchasers, and/or different individuals or entities to keep away from paying Envy Licensing Charges,” reads the go well with filed by the plaintiff.

“Chelsea and Cole didn’t disclose such instructions and funds to Envy and didn’t pay the Envy Licensing Charges owed upon such sums.”

Envy goes on to allege that Chelsea and Cole uncared for to carry up their finish of the discount by “fail[ing] to carry out” sponsored content material duties for a slew of corporations, together with Bombay Hair Wand, Carseat Cover, Diff, Fab Match Enjoyable, Loving Tan, Profile Sanford, Sugar Bear Hair, Timeless Organics, and extra.

Chelsea and Cole are additionally accused of brokering secret offers in order that Envy wouldn’t obtain any reduce of the proceeds.

“Chelsea and Cole now negotiate their branding and licensing agreements with the Shared Purchasers to be executed by, and paid via, the Hid Entities,” reads a submitting by Envy’s attorneys.

“Chelsea and Cole acquired, and proceed to obtain, income earned by the Shared Purchasers upon Property via the Hid Entities from the Manufacturers.”

Clearly, the go well with might doubtlessly harm Chelsea and Cole’s fame, if solely as a result of it reminds followers that the self-consciously folksy DeBoers are literally so properly off that they casually make multimillion greenback offers.

However clearly, the couple has weighed their choices and determined {that a} protracted courtroom battle is well worth the danger.

We’ll preserve you posted! This might get messy!