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Watch Ariana Madix Confront Tom Sandoval successful VPR Finale
Tom Sandoval is SUR-ving up his broadside of the story.
The Vanderpump Rules star, who broke up with Ariana Madix earlier this twelvemonth aft his months-long affair with Raquel Leviss was exposed, defended himself during the Bravo show's May 24 reunion episode. While speaking astir the couple's fallout, Sandoval claimed that helium and Madix weren't ever connected bully presumption during their 9 years together.
"Ariana and I kept our narration beauteous backstage for galore years," the 40-year-old explained. "We had issues. I felt similar I was her cheery BFF. We enactment connected a beforehand erstwhile we were filming and I adjacent talked to our showrunner. For america to beryllium having these issues and keeping it from people, I conscionable didn't deliberation it was just to the remainder of the cast."
A never-before-seen flashback from September 2022 showed Sandoval telling a VPR producer, "I consciousness guilty, radical enactment themselves retired there, man. It's not fair. I consciousness similar it's important for america to, like, speech astir this s--t and not unreal similar it's each amazing."
And, indeed, Madix did not clasp back when calling retired Sandoval's infidelity during the cast's sit-down. After Sandoval tearfully apologized, saying that helium inactive loves Madix, the 39-year-old snapped back, "He has victim-blamed maine 100 percent of the way, truthful I don't judge thing that conscionable came retired of his mouth."
She added, "I deliberation he's f--king afloat of s--t and helium tin f--k off."
As for Madix's instrumentality connected the situation? "I consciousness similar I ever showed everything, from my constituent of view," she said during the reunion. "He's framing it present arsenic thing else. Because helium has to, he's desperate. He volition propulsion thing astatine the partition close present hoping that it'll stick."
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The scathing sentiment echoed Ariana's heated words for Sandoval during VPR's play 10 finale, which documented the fallout from the TomTom co-owner's cheating.
"I regret each infinitesimal that I stood up for you, defended you, supported you," she told Sandoval erstwhile helium came cleanable astir the affair. "You're worthy thing and I privation you to consciousness that heavy successful your soul. I privation you to perceive those words coming from the rima of the pistillate who f--king stood by you and loved you and was acceptable to physique the remainder of my beingness astir you."
During the explosive confrontation, Madix besides called Sandoval and Leviss' concealed romance "bulls--t" and "disgusting."
"I had her back," she said of Leviss, who she's been friends with for years. "The information that she's continued to grin successful my look is 1 of the astir god-awful, disgusting things I've ever heard of."
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For her part, Leviss previously issued an apology to Madix erstwhile the drama—now dubbed by fans arsenic "Scandoval"—imploded.
"There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I deeply regret hurting Ariana," the erstwhile quality queen, who is currently seeking attraction astatine a intelligence wellness facility, wrote in a March 8 statement. "I americium learning things astir myself specified arsenic my patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved. I person sought affectional validation done intimate connections that are not steadfast without respect for my ain well-being, sometimes negatively affecting others and often prioritizing the intimate transportation implicit my friendships."
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