Kristen Doute Returning to Vanderpump Rules Amid Tom Sandoval Drama
Katie Maloney isn't pumping the brakes erstwhile it comes to her instrumentality connected Scandoval.
Amid the fallout over Tom Sandoval—who dated Ariana Madix for astir a decennary until their split—and his matter with Raquel Leviss, their Vanderpump Rules co-star revealed she wasn't taken aback erstwhile the ungraded archetypal broke.
"I wasn't shocked," Katie said during the March 15 occurrence of Watch What Happens Live. "But the details were shocking."
And if you're wondering if Katie wasn't amazed by the matter itself oregon who was involved, Katie clarified that she simply "wasn't shocked that it was Raquel." (Prior to the Scandoval matter surfacing, determination were besides rumors of a hookup betwixt Raquel and Katie's ex Tom Schwartz.)
As for however Ariana—who recently broke her silence connected the ordeal—is doing amid the heartbreak?
"All things considered, she's successful a bully headspace," Katie shared. "She's taking attraction of herself. I saw her yesterday, and we're excited. She's excited."
Katie's candid instrumentality came conscionable hours earlier Ariana opened up astir the circumstances surrounding her divided for the archetypal time.
"I privation to explicit my astir sincere gratitude for the outpouring of emotion and enactment I person received from friends, family, and radical i've ne'er adjacent met successful the past 2 weeks," she wrote successful a March 16 Instagram post. "When I person felt similar I couldn't adjacent stand, you each person fixed maine the spot to proceed and seen maine done my darkest hours."
As Ariana enactment it, to accidental she's devastated "is an understatement."
"However, I cognize that I americium not successful this alone," she continued. "So galore of my closest friends are besides grieving this nonaccomplishment close present and reeling from this betrayal connected truthful galore levels."
In the aftermath of the scandal, some Tom, 39, and Raquel, 28, person penned public apologies directed toward Ariana, 37.
"I privation to apologize to Ariana," Tom wrote successful portion successful his March 7 statement shared to societal media. "I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that wounded idiosyncratic I love. No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly."
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One time aft Tom posted his statement, Raquel also broke her silence connected the situation.
"I privation to apologize for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans truthful invested successful our relationships," she wrote, successful part, a March 8 Instagram statement. "There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana."
Raquel besides noted she's taking the clip to absorption connected herself from present connected out.
"I don't expect sympathy, knowing oregon forgiveness," she continued. "Right now, I indispensable absorption connected my ain wellness and well-being and arsenic I strive to beryllium a amended idiosyncratic moving forward, I volition prioritize my intelligence wellness and larn from my mistakes."
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