Raquel Leviss shared that Tom Sandoval had a plan on the best way to unveil their romance after he broke up with Ariana Madix.
“He was saying, ‘Look, people hated Ariana in the beginning, and then they realized we were sticking together,’” Leviss, 29, claimed at the Thursday, January 25, episode of her “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast. “We weren’t going anywhere and so they had to accept it and they ended up loving her and it could be the same for us.”
Sandoval, 40, and Madix, 38, began relationship in 2014 in a while after he referred to as issues off with Kristen Doute. Sandoval and Madix had been in combination for almost a decade till they broke up in March 2023 after it was once published he was once having an affair with Leviss.
“I think in his mind, he’s gotten away with it before [so] he could get away with it again,” Leviss stated, regarding the murky timeline of Sandoval and Doute’s breakup. “I think I was just naive and wishful thinking that this could work out the way I wanted it to because ultimately at that time I did want to be with him. I was hoping for the best I guess.”
Leviss published that she was once the one that driven Sandoval to inform Madix the reality. On the time, the Vanderpump Regulations forged had already wrapped up filming season 10 however nonetheless had the reunion particular to tape.
“I was like, ‘We need to tell Ariana before the reunion. We can’t go into the reunion with her not knowing.’ Because I [felt] like that just really really wouldn’t be fair [to] her,” she shared. “The one thing that we got hung up on, he did not want her to know when it first started and I don’t see the point in lying about those things because isn’t it much better to just be upfront and honest and tell the truth?”
Whilst Sandoval was once apparently hesitant to return blank, Leviss confessed there have been a “few instances” the place she nearly informed Madix herself. Then again, Leviss believed the scoop must come from Sandoval.
“I told Tom, ‘Maybe I should tell Ariana,’ and he was like, ‘No no no no no. You’re not going to tell Ariana.’ OK, then you’re going to tell Ariana,” Leviss stated. “I was waiting on him to tell her. It was my duty to tell her, yes, I know that. But I felt like it was his responsibility with him being in that relationship with him to tell her and break up with her.”
After taping the season 10 reunion particular in March 2023, Leviss checked herself right into a psychological well being facility. 5 months later, Us Weekly reported that Leviss had bring to an end touch with Sandoval. She additionally in the end made up our minds not to go back to Pump Regulations for season 11.