'Selling the OC's Sean Palmieri doubles down on Tyler & Austin claims

The drama continues!

Sean Palmieri is not backing down.

On Tuesday, May 14, the bisexual star of Selling the OC did a new interview where he doubled down on his accusations about Tyler Stanaland and Austin Victoria flirting with him. Moreover, Sean clarified the involvement of other costars, like Polly Brindle, in creating the drama that ensued.

When asked why he didn't join the recent group interviews with the entire cast of Selling the OC season 3, Sean suggested that he was encouraged to skip them.

"It was a choice that was recommended to me," Sean told Entertainment Tonight. "I would have come. I think that if I was there, I would have really shut it down, immediately. But I think it's really good to let people speak what they want to say, and then I will come back with the facts."

ET's Brice Sander wrote that Sean showed text messages to clarify the timeline of the night he supposedly almost had a threesome with Austin and his wife. Specifically, the report outlines that Sean "never went over to Austin and Lisa's for dinner. Instead, he shared sushi with Austin at a place near Austin's house, then went back to the house briefly to play video games on a VR headset Austin had recently purchased. After leaving, Sean sent Austin a text."

In that text message, which was previously reported by Out, Sean simply stated that Austin and Lisa are fun people to hang out with and thanked them for having him over.

Another text message shared with ET confirms that Sean reached out to Austin to set the record straight with him about the rumors that were going around. There's a text message of Austin saying that he'll call Sean to talk, but Sean alleged that Austin never called him.

"I want screen time?" Sean pointed out in the interview. "I go to the office and he brings it up in front of the entire office — with 50 camera crew around! I immediately walk away and say, 'I'm not doing this right now.' As I'm walking away, I'm trying to talk to him in private. He doesn't want to talk in private, he wants to bring it to the screen."

Sean continued: "So, if you are so desperate to not get your family involved, your wife involved, your kids involved, why are you bringing it on screen, Austin? For everyone to talk about, when I confronted you multiple times and said, 'This needs to be a private conversation.' What are you doing?"

"I think Austin thought I was an easy target," Sean told ET. "I usually keep it classy. I keep it chill. Then he quickly saw in the office, if he wanted to go there, that I was not the one or the two."

There was also some clarification on why Tyler's jabs at Sean's real estate career felt hurtful and surprising. "It took me a few months to get my license as we were filming. I [had] just moved from LA to Orange County. Tyler [had] been over and helped quiz me for my exam. He damn well knows my background."

Sean added, "I called [Tyler] out on so many things, and [he and the rest of the cast] started to attack my character. Tyler is a man who literally humiliated his now-ex-wife in front of the entire world and has done so many horrible things… yet you wanna talk about my character?"

Sean went on during the interview, "This rumor about being drugged, lured into a bedroom, marijuana cookies? That never happened. All I heard throughout filming is, 'There is a rumor.' And I was like, 'What is this rumor?' I never even brought this up to camera. I never even brought it to production."

According to Sean, he distanced himself from Polly Brindle after seeing her "negativity" on and off-camera following the first season of Selling the OC. As a result, he theorized that Polly "came up with the rumor" that plagued season 3.

"Quickly after season 1, we're not speaking," Sean noted. "Then she's saying [in season 3] that I recently told her something about Austin and Lisa… when we have not been speaking?"

Well, this Selling the OC drama seems far from over!

Selling the OC season 3 is streaming on Netflix.