Tom Sandoval claimed that former Vanderpump Laws costar Raquel Leviss wasn’t “just some hot girl” to him all the way through their affair.
“I fought so hard for Rachel,” Sandoval, 40, stated all the way through the Thursday, December 7, episode of “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast, calling Leviss, 29, via her start identify. “I stopped drinking. I stopped smoking cigarettes because she went away to a facility.”
Us Weekly showed in March that Ariana Madix and Sandoval break up after 9 years in combination following information that Sandoval had cheated with costar Leviss. Because the affair persevered to make headlines, Leviss checked into a psychological well being facility in April, which Sandoval stated on Thursday used to be one thing he attempted to lend a hand her thru.
“I’m like, ‘She can’t drink, she can’t smoke. I’m gonna quit,’” he stated at the podcast. “I haven’t gone this long without drinking since I was 16. It’s been eight months. I stopped for her. I was there in any way that she needed me.”
Sandoval confessed that “of course” he nonetheless misses Leviss after their romance fizzled out previous this yr. “We were best friends. It’s heartbreaking to go through,” he stated. “I was fully in love with her.”
The Tom Tom cofounder quipped: “She’s not just some hot girl. I was a model for 15 years, it’s deeper than that. It’s more than that.”
Sandoval famous that he “would have loved to go away to a mental health facility” like Leviss did and reboot, however he claimed he had prior paintings engagements he needed to care for.
Taking a look again, Sandoval stated he “doesn’t know” whether or not Leviss beloved him or simply sought after reputation. He stated, “I hope she did [love me],” confessing he felt harm that she “just shooed me away” after the scandal broke.
Us prior to now reported in September that Leviss and Sandoval had “not spoken” in months. A supply completely informed Us on the time that there have been “zero contact” between the pair “since sometime in June.” The insider claimed to Us that Leviss “made the decision that it was healthier to cut Tom out of her life completely” whilst she used to be in remedy, regardless of Sandoval’s “attempts of writing and calling.”
Regardless of the entire trauma he’s skilled because the affair, Sandoval alleged on Thursday that his and Leviss’ hookup used to be “definitely not” for the “thrill” of it. “You get caught up. You get lost in your emotions,” he added. “Love makes you do really stupid things. Throw logic out the window and that’s exactly what happened.”
Leviss, for her section, selected now not to go back to Pump Laws after the scandal performed out on season 10 of the Bravo sequence. She has since introduced that she is going to inform her facet of the tale on her upcoming “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast, which premieres on January 8, 2024.
Madix, in the meantime, discovered love once more with boyfriend Daniel Wai. She printed on Wednesday, December 6, that she used to be just lately solid as Roxie Hart within the Broadway rendition of Chicago after competing on season 32 of Dancing With the Stars.