She came back to Calabasas ready to branch out, make new friends, and start fresh. Her oldest friends had a different read on that.
Who Is Emilie Nelson?
Emilie Nelson is a 23-year-old fashion influencer returning to Calabasas after college, a Southern Methodist University graduate who attended Sierra Canyon School and built her closest friendships there. She considers herself a confident, empathetic, passionate person with a clear sense of her own direction — and, per her Netflix bio, sometimes plays dumb to her advantage.
She enters the season as part of a tight trio with Kimora Lewis and Alexie Olivo, friendships that go back to their Sierra Canyon days. How long those friendships hold is one of the season’s central questions.
Who Are Emilie Nelson’s Parents?
Emilie’s father is Eddie Nelson, co-owner of Lemon Tree Road real estate and development, and an Executive Sales Professional at The Benchmark Collective. Her mother, Natalie, frequently appears in her personal life content. Neither parent is famous, but the family clearly has deep roots in the Calabasas world the show inhabits.
What Does Emilie Nelson Do?
Emilie is a fashion-focused content creator and influencer building her platform and brand. She does not have patience for pettiness in the group, preferring to focus on herself, though the show makes clear that staying above the drama is harder than she anticipates. On the show, she mentions interest in modeling and developing her own brand, and tells Hercy Miller she is open to sitting down to work on it together.
Emilie Nelson’s Drama on ‘Calabasas Confidential’
Emilie walks into the season as Kimora’s closest friend — staying at her house, borrowing her jacket and her mother’s earrings — and exits Kiki-Chella as the person Kimora asks to leave her party. The breakdown between them is the sharpest conflict of Episode 2, and it starts with Hercy Miller.
Emilie and Hercy have a shared history through the group, and when he starts pursuing her more directly, she does not shut it down. Kimora, who has her own unresolved feelings about Hercy going back to when they were teenagers, watches it play out at her own event and reaches a breaking point. When she confronts Emilie directly, the conversation collapses fast — Emilie disputes Kimora’s account of what happened, Kimora calls her a liar, and Jemma arrives clapping in Emilie’s face to back Kimora up.
Emilie stays calm through most of it, which reads differently depending on who you ask. She tells the cameras that girls having issues with other girls over a man is the lamest thing known to man. Kimora’s read is that Emilie’s calmness is not composure — it is dismissiveness.
Meanwhile, her friendship with Emma Medrano is quietly developing as an alternative home base. Two women who both came into the summer feeling like they were being sized up rather than welcomed.
Emilie Nelson’s Social Media
Emilie is on Instagram at @emilienelson and TikTok @princesitaemilita.
What Does Emilie Nelson Bring to ‘Calabasas Confidential’?
Emilie is the show’s most controlled presence in the middle of chaos, which makes her either the most grounded person in the room or the hardest one to trust. She is not cruel, but she is not especially accountable either — and the gap between how she sees herself and how her oldest friends are experiencing her is where her whole arc lives. Whether she grows into the self-awareness her bio hints at, or doubles down on the narrative that everyone else is the problem, is the question the season is building toward.
Calabasas Confidential Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.
Want to know more about the cast?
- ‘Calabasas Confidential’: Hercy Miller’s Story Goes Beyond His Last Name
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- Who Is Alexie Olivo? “Calabasas Confidential” Cast Member Explained
- Who Is Jemma Durrant? ‘Calabasas Confidential’ Cast Member Explained
- Who Is Dylan Wolf? ‘Calabasas Confidential’ Cast Member Explained
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