Ariana reveals what Raquel’s preliminary apology mentioned, why she believes Schwartz knew greater than he is “keen to let on” and what she’s since found about Scandoval that “repulses” her now.
Ariana Madix dropped much more bombshells about Scandoval throughout a brand new interview on Alex Cooper’s Name Her Daddy podcast.
The “Vanderpump Rules” star opened up her longtime associate Tom Sandoval’s affair with costar Raquel Leviss throughout the 2+ hour episode, beginning with the second she realized they had been hooking up and detailing all the continuing fallout since making that startling discovery.
Madix as soon as once more broke down how she discovered a compromising video of Tom and Raquel on Tom’s telephone throughout one in every of his live shows, confronting him over it instantly. The video was described as an “intimate FaceTime session” at the time, with Raquel’s attorneys claiming it had been recorded with out her permission. Whereas Madix was at first hesitant to verify what she noticed, she smirked and nodded when Cooper mentioned she believed the footage confirmed the pair having “FaceTime intercourse”; Ariana went on to say that the video was proof to her this was greater than only a one-off factor.
“I imply, there is no approach it might be a one-off given the closeness of, like, all of our relationship to her, you recognize what I imply? There is no approach,” she advised Cooper. “And in addition to really feel snug doing that on a FaceTime, you recognize, there is no — there’s simply no approach of it being, like a one-time, ‘Oh we simply determined in the future to FaceTime intercourse.'”
She additionally mentioned the video was filmed at Tom Schwartz’s “unhappy, unhappy condominium” — one thing she took as proof that Schwartz most likely knew extra concerning the affair than he is “keen to let on,” since Sandoval was so snug doing one thing like that there.
Most surprising of all, Madix mentioned she believes Tom and Raquel “had intercourse in my visitor room whereas I used to be sleeping in my very own mattress.” She mentioned she felt that, after they went to mattress collectively, he snuck out, “went to the visitor room and f—ed her, I consider that.”
Cooper puzzled whether or not she acquired any sort of apology from Leviss after the affair was uncovered, with Madix detailing one she allegedly acquired over textual content and one other from the present’s reunion taping.
“Hers was like a nothing. Hers was a textual content message that was very, like, ‘I simply do not know what to say besides that I am sorry.’ Like, that was it,” mentioned Madix, saying she received it the day the scandal broke. “After which on the reunion, it was very subpar. It was like a [rehearsed] speech and I used to be identical to, ‘Shut the f— up.’ Nothing clicked, I did not really feel prefer it was real.”
Madix was additionally requested if there was something she’s “uncovered” because the information went public that “repulses you about the entire scenario,” with Ariana revealing the intense lengths Sandoval allegedly went to to spend time together with his mistress.
“The flying her to completely different locations. I do know that she was at that ‘Watch What Occurs Reside’ look the place Schwartz was overlaying his mouth and performing all bizarre; it is as a result of she was within the resort room. She was there in New York. I do know for a reality,” mentioned Madix. “He was utilizing, like, different individuals’s bank cards and issues, principally making them pay for issues after which Venmo them later. [That] truthfully makes me actually upset as a result of I really feel like he put individuals able that they felt like they did not know what to do and I really feel dangerous as a result of I really feel … I can solely think about how heavy, like, how a lot that weighed on them.”
She mentioned that Tom’s band additionally made it “very straightforward” for him to say he needed to be out of city, claiming he then would simply fly her out to “wherever that present was and I’d do not know as a result of he is coming dwelling precisely when he is supposed to return dwelling. After all, he is out late, he is enjoying a present. He was superb with that.”
Whereas Madix did not have an actual quantity when Cooper requested her to disclose how many individuals she believed Sandoval had cheated on her with, she appeared fairly assured it wasn’t simply with Raquel.
“There was one years and years in the past that I– I received a DM that was, like, ‘Tom attached with my good friend in San Diego.’ And I introduced it up time and again and again and again and it was like, ‘No, completely not, no, no, no,’ you recognize what I imply? It was like, actually only a no. That, now, I believe was a sure,” she mentioned. “After which, there’s particularly the one which he mentioned, ‘Oh yeah, there was one different time.’ I am like, 99.9 % certain I do know precisely who that’s, additionally.”
“However that being mentioned, what number of? I do not know, as a result of I really feel like he was so … I imply, there was stuff that he was getting away with that I realized about, like, inside the final month, like bringing Rachel dwelling to St. Louis,” she added, saying that occurred “greater than as soon as” whereas she and Tom had been nonetheless collectively. Madix additionally believed Tom’s household knew one thing was happening between them, but additionally had been “not condoning” his habits.
Madix was adamant nothing occurred between Tom and former costar Billie Lee both, after rumors of a hookup had been resurfaced within the season finale.
“I don’t assume that something occurred there. I do not. And the explanation I do not is as a result of, I imply, Billie Lee — I perceive that this sounds loopy as a result of Raquel was somebody I liked and trusted — however I do actually, I belief that Billie Lee wouldn’t do this,” she mentioned.
She added she and Lee have additionally “talked about it,” however did not get into specifics.
As for whether or not anybody else has come out of the woodwork and into her DMs with extra claims about Sandoval’s habits throughout their relationship, Madix mentioned no person has … but. She additionally mentioned she doesn’t consider gossip that Raquel is pregnant or rumors suggesting Leviss attached with Scheana Shay’s husband, Brock Davies. “There is no approach,” she mentioned of the latter.
The “Vanderpump Guidelines” reunion kicks off tonight on Bravo.