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Vanderpump Rules' Tom Sandoval Breaks Silence connected Ariana Madix Split
It's each happening. Another time of the Scandoval saga, that is.
Scheana Shay's lawyer is speaking out, aft Vanderpump Rules' Raquel Leviss claimed successful a restraining bid petition that Scheana punched her successful the look amid the aftermath of Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix's breakup.
"This lawsuit is simply a fabrication by a known liar and a cheat who has betrayed everyone adjacent to her," Scheana's lawyer Neama Rahmani said successful a connection to E! News March 9, 1 time aft Raquel was granted a temporary restraining order against her co-star. "Scheana ne'er punched Rachel, period."
According to tribunal documents obtained by E! News, Raquel (born Rachel) said that Scheana's alleged attack—which she says took spot astir 1:30 a.m. connected March 2, aft they were on Watch What Happens Live March 1—left her with a "black oculus and cut/scar to near eyebrow, blurred imaginativeness & swelling to near eye."
But Scheana's lawyer denies specified markings came from her client. "The expected acheronian markings astir her near oculus person been determination for months," the lawyer said. "Neither Scheana nor different formed members privation thing to bash with Rachel going forward."
And astatine this point, Scheana acceptable to person her time successful court.
"The justice has lone heard a one-sided relationship of what happened," his connection continued, "and we look guardant to presenting the afloat and existent communicative astatine the March 29 hearing."
E! News has reached retired to Raquel's rep for remark but hasn't heard back.
The fallout betwixt ex-friends stemmed from allegations that Raquel was progressive successful a long-term matter with Tom, who was successful a nine-year relationship with Ariana, Scheana's champion friend.
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Five days after the quality broke, Raquel took to Instagram to contented a statement.
"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 portion March 8. "There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana."
As for wherever things basal betwixt the pageant queen and Ariana IRL?
Raquel "called and tried to substance Ariana twice" earlier releasing a nationalist apology, a root with cognition told E! News.
The erstwhile Miss Sonoma County aboriginal released a 2nd nationalist statement.
"Besides the indefensible circumstances surrounding our relationship, my feelings for Tom person ever been sincere and calved retired of a loving friendship," Raquel's most recent Instagram post read. "Knowing however galore radical we hurt, I request to recognize my choices and larn to marque amended ones."
She also addressed wherever she stands with the Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras singer.
"I request to instrumentality attraction of my health, enactment connected aforesaid maturation and instrumentality clip to beryllium good with being alone," Raquel concluded, "I attraction for Tom and I don't privation to statement thing oregon foretell what lies ahead. Right present I request to heal."
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As acold arsenic apologies go, Tom has enactment down his trumpet and picked up his telephone as he, too, released two apologies connected the 'gram this week.
"I consciousness truly horrible," he wrote in part connected Instagram March 7. "My biggest regret is that I dishonored Ariana. I ne'er meant to disappoint truthful galore people, including our loving families and friends."
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