Tom Schwartz Accuses Tom Sandoval of Forcing Him to Kiss Raquel Leviss

Tom Schwartz Accuses Tom Sandoval of Forcing Him to Kiss Raquel Leviss 

Tom Schwartz once alleged that Tom Sandoval forced him to kiss Raquel Leviss — while Sandoval and Leviss were embroiled in a secret affair. 

“Oh, my God. [Sandoval] made me do it,” Schwartz told ET Canada in a resurfaced clip from the February 7 Vanderpump Rules Season 10 premiere bash.

“I didn’t want to do it,” he added. “He’s like, ‘If you don’t do it, you’re a wussy.’ … He steamrolled me.”

Tom Schwartz, 40, and Raquel Leviss, 28, were under fire at the time for kissing at the August 2022 wedding of co-star, Scheana Shay. The duo’s make-out session did not sit well with Schwartz’s now ex-wife, Katie Maloney, who confirmed that she felt uneasy about her ex hooking up with another VPR cast member. 

Several within the Bravo cast supported Schwartz and Leviss’ seemingly budding romance at the time, including Sandoval.

Fans of the Bravo show know that Leviss landed in controversy only months later, after her scandalous romance with Sandoval was exposed. 

Sandoval’s now-ex, Ariana Madix, discovered that her boyfriend was entrenched in a “full-on affair” on March 1, after an explicit video of Leviss, 28, popped up on Sandoval’s phone. Madix dumped Sandoval, 40, when she realized that the pair had been “communicating inappropriately for months.”

Schwartz’s silence since the exposure has seemingly riled up the Pump Rules cast.

Kristen Doute and Lala Kent took aim at Schwartz during Friday’s episode of Shay’s podcast, “Scheananigans” for not publicly commenting about the bombshell affair.   

“Tom Schwartz is a f**king p**sy and he needs to man up,” Doute, 40, said. 

She continued — “It’s like, he can be honest with us in real time and texting, ‘I don’t stand for this’ or ‘I really feel this way,’ but he doesn’t do anything about it.” 

Doute also claimed that Schwartz found out about the affair “a month ago” and wanted the covert couple to publicly fess up before they “humiliated the hell” out of Madix. 

Madix, 37, returned to Instagram late last week, after shutting down her social media accounts amid the cheating scandal. Both Sandoval and Leviss issued apologies as the drama unfolded. 

Sandoval wrote on Wednesday — “Most of all, I want to apologize to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that hurt somebody I love. No one deserves to feel that pain so traumatically and publicly.”

Leviss apologized to Madix in a statement shared with ET, revealing that she was in counseling for her “unhealthy behavioral cycle.” 

Leviss put out a second statement on Wednesday night, addressing the current state of her relationship with Sandoval.

“Besides the indefensible circumstances surrounding our relationship, my feelings for Tom have always been sincere and born out of a loving friendship,” Leviss wrote on Instagram. “I care for Tom and I don’t want to label anything or predict what lies ahead… Right now I need to heal.”

 

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