Ariana Madix shared particulars of a textual content message Raquel Leviss despatched to Tom Sandoval earlier than the information of their affair broke throughout a podcast look on Wednesday.
As she addressed rumors of an open relationship between her and Sandoval and a hookup between Sandoval and Billie Lee, the Vanderpump Guidelines star revealed the textual content, shared her ideas on the reunion bomb, and gushed over new man Daniel Wai.
“I’m actually, actually having fun with myself,” Ariana gushed on the Could 24 episode of the Name Me Daddy podcast. “I’m seeing somebody. They stay throughout the nation in New York. So clearly, you recognize, it’s sort of there’s that entire facet to it, however I’d say it’s like, actually, actually nice.”
Ariana and Daniel met in Mexico, the place they have been attending the marriage of mutual associates, per week and a half after “Scandoval” broke. And, whereas some have felt that Ariana moved on too quickly, she confirmed they didn’t begin courting instantly.
“I met him at this wedding ceremony, and all we did was discuss. We stayed up all evening simply speaking. It’s actually all I wished. I used to be like, ‘High quality time! What is that this?’ After which he flew to the place he lives and I flew her to the place I’m after which we simply FaceTimed and talked and talked and it was identical to, ‘Oh my gosh, like I’m attending to know this particular person and the conversations we have been having have been like so wonderful,’” Ariana revealed after noting that high quality time was one thing she was missing with Sandoval.
As she continues to spend time in New York “each couple of weeks,” Ariana mentioned she’s been “[loving] life.”
“And truthfully, having somebody that actually might be like… ‘Hey, can we simply get like 5 minutes the place we identical to, have like high quality time on the telephone.’ I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I’m like, ‘Okay nice. That is nice,’” Ariana said.
Then, when requested about Billie, who has been noticed with Sandoval at their shared house within the months since their breakup, Ariana mentioned she does “not suppose that something occurred there.”
“I perceive that this sounds loopy as a result of Raquel was somebody I beloved and trusted, however I do belief that Billy wouldn’t try this. We’ve talked about it,” she defined.
Though Ariana and Sandoval are nonetheless residing collectively, in separate rooms, Ariana doesn’t communicate to him in any respect. And, when requested if she thinks he misses her, Ariana mentioned, “Yeah, I do.”
“I simply really feel like as somebody that he would go to for recommendation on principally the whole lot up till like that second, I simply suppose that there’s no means that he doesn’t as a result of he’s been making a variety of like very questionable choices during the last two months and he doesn’t have that like sounding board, or that advisor anymore,” she reasoned.
As for his former mistress, Raquel, Ariana mentioned she’s a “misplaced” human.
“I notice now I by no means knew her, however I actually don’t know her now, and I don’t know anybody who does know her and so it’s arduous to say,” she defined. “However primarily based on what I’ve seen, misplaced and empty. A number of the habits has at instances appeared sociopathic, however on the identical time, I’m not likely positive, like, what’s the actual deal?”
As rumors swirl in regard to the standing of Sandoval and Raquel’s relationship, Ariana mentioned the 2 of them merely don’t make sense “until he has modified the whole lot that he’s ever mentioned that he’s on the lookout for in somebody.”
Whereas Ariana actually had a relationship with Sandoval’s household over the course of their nine-year relationship, she nonetheless has not heard from them.
“I suppose I’d simply suppose they’d be like ‘Hey, this sucks.’ Simply that. ‘Want you the most effective,’” Ariana famous.
Not solely did Sandoval’s household not attain out, however they could have been within the learn about Sandoval’s affair. In spite of everything, he took Raquel to St. Louis for visits.
“[It was] apparently greater than as soon as. It’s arduous to say what precisely they knew, or once they knew, I feel they, at one level, they knew. However they have been undoubtedly not condoning, and he wasn’t… He was placing her up in a resort,” she revealed.
And, based on Ariana, Raquel wasn’t his first infidelity.
“There was one years and years in the past… I obtained a DM that was like, ‘Tom connected with my buddy in San Diego.’ And I introduced it up again and again and time and again… And it was like ‘No, completely not. No, no, no.’ [But] now I’m like, ‘No, I feel that was a sure,’” Ariana defined. “After which there’s particularly the one which he mentioned, ‘Oh yeah, there was one different time.’ And I’m like 99.9% positive I do know precisely who that can be.”
Whereas Ariana denied being in an open relationship with Sandoval earlier than the affair was uncovered, she now believes Sandoval was liable for the false studies.
“I feel it got here from him… Again when these things began popping out, and rumors have been rumbling…. Rachel instructed a mutual buddy that she thought me and Tom have been in an open relationship as a result of apparently, he instructed her that,” she revealed. “After which when that obtained introduced up, he was like, ‘Completely not. I by no means mentioned that.’ And I used to be like, ‘Nicely, you must most likely take that up along with your little f-cking girlfriend as a result of she’s the one who instructed that to another person.’”
Raquel additionally instructed somebody that she’d “relatively hook up with Ariana than Tom,” based on Ariana, who suspects she mentioned that “as a result of she was speaking to a man and she or he thought it [was] sizzling to say that.”
In latest weeks, after producer Alex Baskin hinted at new data that might be dropped on the Pump Guidelines reunion and mentioned he didn’t wish to go into manufacturing on season 11 till everybody was made conscious of it, rumors have swirled about what that bomb may very well be.
“I feel I do know what the deal is, however I’m not totally positive… I kinda have an concept,” Ariana admitted. “I don’t suppose it’s one thing that loopy or that wild, however I don’t know as a result of… I haven’t seen it.”
Though the controversy often called “Scandoval” has been completely devastating to Ariana, who thought she would develop outdated with Sandoval earlier than he engaged in a months-long affair together with her finest buddy, one explicit facet stood out as probably the most hurtful.
“It was the best way that he weaponized any battle I’ve ever had with my psychological well being that to me was like probably the most hurtful,” she revealed, giving the nod to Sandoval’s suggestion that she threatened to hurt herself when he tried to interrupt up together with her.
As for Raquel’s textual content, Ariana mentioned that after uncovering Sandoval’s dishonest, she got here throughout a textual content from Raquel to Tom, which learn, “I simply talked to a mutual buddy… they usually mentioned that try to be trustworthy with Ariana, perhaps not a lot about all the main points, like sleeping in the home collectively, however that she deserves to learn about this.”
“After which it’s like, ‘I like you, you bought this,’” Ariana revealed.
Additionally, on the podcast, Ariana shared her hopes for the long run.
“I would like independence on each degree,” she declared. “I would like to have the ability to be fully financially impartial and profitable. I wish to open my sandwich store with Katie and have that be a complete hit, which I feel it will likely be. I’m very enthusiastic about all of that. I simply wish to be impartial, impartial and profitable. And I wish to be a solo home-owner. I wish to personal my own residence, with nobody else on the deed.
Half two of the three-part Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 reunion airs subsequent Wednesday, Could 31, at 9/8c on Bravo.