Vanderpump Guidelines star Ariana Madix suspects that Billie Lee resides on the house she shares with ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval.
“I feel Billie Lee actually lives in my home proper now by the way in which,” Ariana, 38, mentioned in the course of the Tuesday, January 30, episode of the Vanderpump Guidelines After Present, which aired following the season 11 premiere.
Billie, 39, who appeared as a recurring visitor on seasons 6 and seven of VPR, has beforehand raised eyebrows for her bond with Sandoval, 41.
When different VPR solid members and alums turned on Sandoval after his affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss got here to gentle in March 2023, Billie Lee defended him and continued to spend time with him. (Within the wake of the dishonest scandal, Sandoval and Ariana cut up after 9 years of courting.)
“Tom and Ariana are my household. They’ve been there for me over time and I wouldn’t be the place I’m right now with out them. It saddens me that individuals are so fixated on choosing a aspect,” Billie instructed Leisure Tonight in April 2023, including that she “can help and be there for each events.”
Billie and Sandoval have additionally sparked affair rumors of their very own prior to now. Throughout a Could 2023 look on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, Ariana mentioned that she doesn’t imagine the gossip.
“I belief that Billie Lee wouldn’t do this,” she mentioned, noting that the duo had “talked about” the rumors offline.
Whereas Billie might or might not be residing at Ariana’s home, Sandoval actually is, and the exes every have their very own causes for staying on the residence.
“I knew that if I moved out, she would most likely have a good friend transfer in and nothing would occur,” Sandoval mentioned in the course of the VPR After Present, claiming that “all these payments” would nonetheless be “popping out of my accounts” if he left.
He additionally argued that he “couldn’t afford to go stay in one other place.” His costar and pal Tom Schwartz backed him up on that time, noting that it wasn’t “a good time to promote” when the scandal broke.
Sandoval went on to say that residing together with his ex hasn’t been all unhealthy.
“It’s a kind of issues the place I really feel prefer it was extra of a [big] deal to all people else than to us,” he mentioned. “It was sort of reassuring to me, as a result of I really feel like Ariana actually went out of her strategy to attempt to dehumanize me, but it surely feels extra performative than something. As a result of on the finish of the day, if she thinks I’m this, like, serial killer, then why is she nonetheless OK residing with me?”
Sandoval added that Ariana staying within the hand-crafted him really feel like “on some degree she trusted me and felt protected with me being there [rather] than her being alone in that home.”
Ariana, in the meantime, sees the scenario a bit in another way.
“The respectful factor to do would have been for him to simply accept Rachel’s provide of staying in her condominium,” she mentioned on Tuesday. “Even, like, two days in spite of everything this occurred, Kristen Doute was like, ‘Dude, you must, like, depart. Give her house, give her time.’ And he simply outright refused, mainly.”
Ariana then theorized why Sandoval was so intent on staying put regardless of their contentious dynamic.
“I feel he additionally felt like all of these items had occurred to him versus him making the stuff occur. And so due to that perception he additionally felt like all of it was very unfair,” she mentioned. “So, I feel that was a part of the rationale why he was digging his heels in and throwing events. … It was virtually like a child throwing a tantrum type of.”
The pair’s roommate woes acquired actual earlier this month when Ariana filed a lawsuit in opposition to Sandoval, asking a decide that their house be “partitioned by sale.”
In courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, Ariana made it clear that she shouldn’t be in search of “a division in sort,” which might enable each of them to retain possession of the property with just one social gathering promoting their curiosity in the home.
Sandoval slammed Ariana’s dealing with of the scenario throughout a Tuesday look on Nick Viall’s “The Viall Information” podcast.
“Ariana is making it out to be that me wanting to maintain the home is a psychopath transfer, but it surely’s not. She’s like, ‘Oh, he gave me a s–t provide.’ I gave her a proposal of $3.1 million. We purchased our home for $2.05 [million],” Sandoval claimed earlier than calling Ariana’s actions “petty.”
Vanderpump Guidelines airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.