Ariana Madix Praised Tom Sandoval’s Dedication Shortly Before His Affair Was Uncovered

Ariana Madix Praised Tom Sandoval’s Dedication Shortly Before His Affair Was Uncovered

Vanderpump Rules star, Ariana Madix, praised Tom Sandoval right before discovering that her boyfriend was embroiled in a scandalous affair with Raquel Leviss.

Last Wednesday night, Tom Sandoval did a Q&A session with the audience ahead of  his band, Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras’ concert, at West Hollywood hotspot, TomTom. Sandoval’s bandmate read a question asking — “Do you think the show [‘Vanderpump Rules’] accurately portrays you?”

Sandoval started to respond, but then handed the mic over to Ariana, who went on to gush over the frontman. 

“In some ways, yes; in some ways, no,” the Bravo star said. “I think the way that they show how dedicated and extra [he is], because I’m looking at the word ‘extra…’

Ariana, 37, spoke to her boyfriend directly when she clarified—“But when I say dedicated to everything that you do and the way that you commit to everything that you do — that part is accurate.” 

“But I think there are some things that are not accurate,” she continued. “Like, for example, you get ready really fast. I take forever. But I think that on the show, you would think it was the other way around.”

Ariana cosigned a person in the crowd who shouted, “Give her a kiss!” echoing—“give me a kiss!” Sandoval, 39, obliged. 

Madix discovered that Sandoval was entrenched in a “full-on affair” a short time later, after a raunchy video of Leviss, 28, popped up on Sandoval’s phone. Madix cut ties with Sandoval when she realized that the pair had been “communicating inappropriately for months.”

The outlet also reported that the covert duo had been seeing each other “since last summer.” Sandoval and Leviss even reportedly shared nights together in the former couple’s Los Angeles home “when Ariana’s been out of town.”

Vanderpump Rules cast member, James Kennedy, backed up the details  when he confirmed that the secret relationship started “7 months ago.” Kennedy, Leviss’ ex fiancé, also alleged that the pair’s hookups sometimes occurred while Madix was asleep at home. 

Sandoval and Leviss reportedly “want to be together” and had decided to publicly cop to the affair, a plan that was supposedly in the works “for weeks.”

Sources described Madix as “blindsided” and “heartbroken” in the wake of the split. Madix and Sandoval had been together nearly 10 years. 

“Ariana was blindsided by the cheating,” a snitch said, adding that the reality star had “no idea there were any issues” within the relationship and feels “betrayed by her friend.”

The VPR cast has been slamming the outed lovers online in the days since the affair was exposed. Madix shut down her own personal social media accounts, but Sandoval addressed the situation on Instagram.

“I fully understand and deserve ur anger & disappointment towards me, but please leave [Tom] Schwartz my friends and family out of this situation,” he wrote, in part.

Bravo is reportedly working to capture the real-time drama to include in the currently airing Season 10. Production insiders dished that Madix felt “gaslit” during a conversation filmed on Friday, with both Leviss and Sandoval.

Vanderpump Rules airs Wednesdays, at 9 p.m. ET, on Bravo.

 

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