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Scheana Shay struggled to navigate her relationship with Tom Sandoval whereas filming season 11 of Vanderpump Guidelines.
After reducing ties with Sandoval, 40, on the finish of season 10 because it was confirmed that he’d cheated on her greatest buddy, Ariana Madix, 38, with their co-star, Raquel Leviss, 28, Scheana, 38 was introduced again collectively together with her longtime buddy and admittedly confronted challenges amid altering dynamics amongst the forged.
Earlier this summer season, after the Pump Guidelines forged traveled to Lake Tahoe, Scheana was met with backlash after posing for a gaggle pic with Sandoval and took to her Instagram Story to defend herself.
“I don’t know why I really feel the necessity to defend taking a photograph with my hand like this [in a fist] behind somebody,” she mentioned in July.
Even Ariana spoke out on her behalf.
“[Scheana] is an incredible buddy who took a photograph with a fan for his or her birthday,” she defined in a social media put up of her personal. “There’s been so many imply feedback in the direction of her for it and she or he was simply doing one thing good. We all the time attempt to cease for pictures and when the entire forged is current, it’s widespread for the entire forged to be within the picture no matter what’s going on between any of us on the time.”
A short while later, earlier than Lala Kent, 33, was met with backlash for her personal interplay with Sandoval, Scheana discovered herself with Sandoval but once more as the 2 of them had been paired up for a “non secular meditation” session.
“We went to Tahoe, it was all filmed for season 11. Ariana and [Katie Maloney] didn’t come, however Tom Sandoval did. There was in the future [that was] past essentially the most emotionally draining day I’ve ever had in 11 seasons of Vanderpump Guidelines,” she later admitted on Amazon Reside. “No joke, my eyelashes damage from how a lot I cried that day. My contacts had been dry and I used to be congested. I felt weak in each manner attainable. [Eleven] seasons and that day acquired me essentially the most.”
Whereas it’s exhausting to say the place Scheana and Sandoval stand at the moment, Scheana addressed their relationship on an episode of her podcast with visitor Kelly Osbourne on Friday.
“I by no means thought he was a foul man. He was one in every of my greatest associates for nearly 15 years. He was the one one who had my again on this present, who fought for me each time one thing was unfair and he was the individual there in my nook,” she admitted on the September 8 episode of Scheananigans, through Us Weekly.
In keeping with Scheana, she had a tough time navigating her standing with Sandoval amid season 11 as a result of he by no means did something to harm her immediately.
“I’ve personally actually struggled with all this as a result of I’m like, ‘Sure, you probably did a extremely unhealthy factor. However you weren’t a foul buddy to me. However then what you might have achieved has affected me,’” she added. “So it’s simply modified your entire dynamic of our group.”
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 is predicted to premiere on Bravo someday later this 12 months or early subsequent 12 months.
