Ariana Madix recalled an ungainly acquire ex Tom Sandoval made for Raquel Leviss when the twosome have been “in love.”
“I would be in the house and there’s a box on the kitchen counter and it’s addressed to somewhere in Arizona and it’s just full of who even freaking knows what,” Ariana, 38, recalled all over the Tuesday, January 30, episode of the Vanderpump Regulations After Display, which aired following the season 11 premiere. “There’s one thing that I saw that I’m struggling to talk about it because it’s so cringe.”
Ariana went directly to proportion that she found out a friendship lamp Sandoval, 41, had purchased after Raquel, 29, that might assist the pair keep up a correspondence once they have been a ways aside. “It’s Bluetooth where if I touch it where I am, it will turn on where you are,” she defined, including, “Oh my god, I can’t.”
“Yeah, I was very much in love,” Sandoval mentioned when requested in regards to the communicative lighting fixtures through manufacturers, noting that he would additionally ship Raquel sweet and different items to turn his affection.
“I would sign her cards and stamp them with wax,” he persevered. “I don’t even send my mom birthday cards they stress me out. I like, learned how to stamp and wax [cards] and I’d put sparkles in [for] when she was halfway through.”
Ariana and Sandoval dated for just about 9 years at the Bravo hit however known as it quits in March 2023 when Ariana found out Sandoval’s affair with Raquel. After season 10 of Vanderpump Regulations wrapped later that month, Raquel admitted herself right into a psychological well being facility in Arizona. 5 months later, Us Weekly reported that Raquel had bring to an end touch with Sandoval and would now not be returning for season 11.
Previous to breaking ties with the TomTom cofounder, Raquel despatched her personal set of items to Sandoval’s house which he nonetheless stocks with Ariana — together with a lightening bolt postcard. (When season 10 of Pump Regulations aired, eagle-eyed enthusiasts spotted that each Raquel and Sandoval have been dressed in lighting fixtures bolt necklaces prior to information in their affair got here to mild.)
Throughout Tuesday’s “After Show,” Ariana printed that she would realize mail addressed to Sandoval from Raquel arriving to the home, together with the postcard.
“Something comes and you’re like, ‘Is that for me? Oh no, it’s coming from somewhere in Arizona,’” she mentioned, noting that she will be able to’t be sure that of Raquel’s “mindset” on the time however speculated that the fashion had “zero concept” that Ariana may intercept the letter a co-owner of the home.
Sandoval, in the meantime, mentioned that the postcard was once despatched a “month” prior to it in reality arrived. When Tom Schwartz known as sending the letter an “insane” resolution, Sandoval agreed, pronouncing he wasn’t certain what Raquel was once considering as she had additionally despatched pieces to Schwartz’s cope with.
“Leading up to season 11 filming we definitely were communicating and sending each other letters and stuff like that,” he persevered. “She’s like, ‘I wasn’t thinking. It was my first time out.’ They had left the [mental health] facility and they had gone out somewhere and she had gotten a postcard and I was like, “I can’t find it. I don’t know where it is.’”
Season 11 of Vanderpump Regulations airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Episodes are to be had to flow on Peacock the following day.