Varied recollections? Tom Sandoval got to have his say. He was invited to the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast this week. If he thought he would redeem himself, he failed miserably. There was no remorse for his actions. Worse, there were undertones of validation. Raquel Leviss adopted a similar stance at the reunion.
One example was the break-up timeline between himself and Ariana Madix. Page Six reported that Sandoval claimed he dumped her two weeks before she found out he was sleeping with Raquel. Valentine’s Day 2023 to be specific.
“I had already broken up with her two weeks earlier, and I told her, I said, ‘Listen, we don’t have to post anything on social media, like, let’s talk through this,’” Sandoval explained. According to the TomTom co-owner, he and Ariana wanted to keep their breakup a secret until they could “figure out a way to navigate this that helps us both out and makes it easier.” Yet, Ariana was in “denial.”
Does Sandoval really think this admission will win sympathy from his Vanderpump Rules co-stars and fans? It just goes to show how tone-deaf he is. Not literally– his mid-life crisis includes being the frontman for Sandoval & The Most Extras. He continued digging himself into a deeper hole.
“A couple days later, I sit down to talk with her again, and she’s like, ‘I’m not letting you leave me, you’re gonna have to force me out of this relationship,’ and I was like, ‘Ariana, I don’t think I can be faithful in a relationship with you right now,’” Sandoval added.
During these conversations, Sandoval failed to mention to Ariana that he had been cheating with Raquel since the summer. So Tom Schwartz’s advice failed to make an impact on his Schwartz & Sandy’s business partner.
Sandoval stated, “She’s like, ‘If you break up with me, you will be effectively ending my life.’ I didn’t know what to do. She was in complete denial and not accepting it.”
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The duo kept up the facade during a weekend getaway to Miami. Sandoval and Ariana attended a food and wine festival with friends. According to Sandoval, Ariana “didn’t talk to me the entire time.”
Sandoval was surprised, therefore, when Ariana came to the infamous concert at TomTom on March 1, 2023. According to Sandoval, the Something About Her co-founder made a show of hooking up with him in front of the crowd. He explained, “We’ve never been PDA unless it’s for a photo or for press or whatever, [but] she, like, in front of all these fans, she grabs me and knows that I’m not gonna push her away in front of people, and she kisses me.”
That night, Ariana found a sexually explicit video of Raquel on her ex-boyfriend’s phone. Sandoval explained what went down. “My phone falls out of the pocket, she sees it and, obviously, was the most upset and angry I’ve ever seen her, but I think she went through the phone just to see if anything happened with somebody in Miami,” Sandoval said. “But we were broken up, she knew we were broken up.”
For her part, Ariana claimed to be “blindsided” by the whole affair. Ariana’s rep didn’t return Page Six’s request for comment. The interview also included Sandoval’s recollection of his first kiss with Raquel.
TELL US- WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO SANDOVAL’S COMMENTS? DO YOU BELIEVE HIM? WAS ARIANA IN DENIAL? DO HIS WORDS VALIDATE THE CHEATING WITH RAQUEL?
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