Ariana Madix is shutting down claims that Raquel Leviss was “manipulated” into believing Tom Sandoval was in an open relationship initially of their affair.
Throughout the “Vanderpump Guidelines: Pumped Up Version” reunion, Scheana Shay alleged that Sandoval informed Leviss that he and Madix weren’t unique again in April 2022 — just some months earlier than their dalliance started.
On account of this, one fan advised that the forged is likely to be coming down too arduous on Leviss, who may need thought she was doing no hurt as a consequence of Sandoval’s alleged lies.
“May or not it’s that he manipulated Raquel the identical method that Ariana has claimed he manipulated her for years,” the fan wrote beneath Web page Six’s Instagram. “I imply why wouldn’t Raquel imagine him if that’s what he informed her. He was taking her on holidays, to satisfy his mother and father, they even spent Christmas collectively.”
But the suggestion didn’t sit proper with Madix, who tried to set the document straight within the feedback part.
“simply to make clear — she didn’t BELIEVE that,” the “VPR” star replied. “She informed somebody that he informed her that. There are lacking main chunks right here which is completely comprehensible. They’ll’t match every bit of context into the present.”
She continued, “He additionally spent Christmas with me and my household in LA (photograph proven within the finale) earlier than splitting his time and going residence to see his after. First holidays with out my grandma please keep in mind.”
Shay, 38, first informed Madix, 37, about Sandoval’s alleged feedback after the affair was uncovered in March.
“Apparently in April [2022], she informed this individual that at Coachella, after you went to sleep, they have been within the sizzling tub, he made a remark to her and was like, ‘So you already know Ariana and I are like open proper?’ And that he began coming onto her at f–king Coachella,” Shay stated through the “VPR” finale.
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Madix, who appeared surprised by the declare, emphasised “that has by no means been the case ever.”
Madix and Sandoval, 40, had been combatting open relationship rumors all season, with the wannabe rocker beforehand calling the accusations “essentially the most f–king ridiculous f–king factor ever.”
But in mild of Leviss and Sandoval’s bombshell affair, Madix revealed that she thinks the rumors “got here from him” all alongside.
The sandwich store proprietor came upon concerning the months-long dalliance when she noticed a sexually express FaceTime recording of her ex-BFF on her ex-boyfriend’s telephone. She instantly dumped him and the fallout from the affair was captured for Season 10 of the hit Bravo present.
“Vanderpump Guidelines” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo whereas the “Pumped Up” uncensored, longer version streams on Peacock the subsequent day.