Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix.Photo:River Callaway/Variety via Getty (2)
River Callaway/Variety via Getty (2)
Just a few months afterTom Sandoval’saffairwithRachel “Raquel” Levisswas exposed, he felt like friends were still out for blood. His exAriana Madix, on the other hand, seemed unexpectedly uninterested in harping on theinfidelitythatabruptly endedtheirnine-year relationship.
“You have not been acting like you have a heart,” Scheana, 38, told her former pal after he didn’t respond and blocked her after she reached out after the death of his friend Ali Rafiq.
“Everything that I do is looked [at] in the most negative way possible,” replied Sandoval, 41.
She asked, “But don’t you think if you would have been honest and remorseful from the beginning, it could have been a different outcome?”
Scheana Shay and Tom Sandoval arrive to the 2018 E! People’s Choice Awards held at the Barker Hangar on November 11, 2018.Charley Gallay/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Charley Gallay/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
When Sandoval noted that he can’t change the past, Sheana told him, “You can apologize and be remorseful. You don’t need to keep doubling down and acting like the villain.”
When he reminded that he apologized to her at her house after the affair became public knowledge in March, he said that it wasn’t just her who was owed an apology.
“I would love to talk to Ariana,” he admitted. “I would love to because out of everybody, she has been 100 times less proactively vindictive, which is weird to me because she’s the one that I did it to.”
“She has every right to come after me and do all that stuff,” he continued. “But Ariana doesn’t get off on that s—. She doesn’t want to see me f—ing dragged to the point of f— like, I mean.”
“Nobody wants to see that, Tom,” said Scheana.
Tom Sandoval attends the 2024 Creative Arts Emmys at Peacock Theater on January 7, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Frazer Harrison/Getty
Frazer Harrison/Getty
Earlier in the episode, Sandoval decried the group’s “mob mentality” in a conversation withLisa Vanderpump, claiming his former friends' “relentless” actions toward him.
He told Scheana that her discussion of the affair on herScheananiganspodcast was “too much.”
“I agree, and there was a certain point when we stopped,” Scheana responded. “I think you just really need to humble yourself and the next show you play, maybe leave[Tom] Schwartzand Raquel’s names out of the songs.”
Referencing her castmate’s theatrical gigs with his band Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras, Scheana said in a confessional: “Like the shirt off, the singing about Schwartz losing his house and ‘Raquel is hot for me.’ Someone needs to tell him to put the mic down.”
To Sandoval’s face, she said, “Everything you’re doing is literally the definition of a narcissist.”
“It’s not," he countered. “You should look it up.”
Tom Sandoval attends White Fox After Hours at Delilah Los Angeles at Delilah on October 18, 2022 in West Hollywood, California.Phillip Faraone/Getty for CLD PR / White Fox
Despite the tough conversation, Sandoval was still sad about the friendship he once had with the “Good as Gold” singer.
“Out of everyone, the loss of Scheana and I’s friendship has been devastating to me,” he explained. “She has a friend that’s just all heart, she’s funny. I miss her.”
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source: people.com
