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Jax Taylor revealed why he complained to his Vanderpump Guidelines producers about Tom Sandoval throughout an look on Heather McDonald‘s podcast on Tuesday.
As he additionally spoke of Raquel Leviss‘ obvious scripting of herself on the Bravo present and alleged stint in a psychological well being facility, Jax took purpose at Sandoval’s participation within the sequence, admitted to filming a previous actuality present pilot with Stassi Schroeder, and addressed Sandoval’s rumored cash troubles.
“Do you discover that bizarre that Tom paid for [James Kennedy‘s] proposal [to Raquel]? Did he not verify his funds?” Jax requested Heather on the Could 16 episode of Juicy Scoop.
In response to Jax, Sandoval ought to’ve checked together with his “cash particular person” earlier than he dropped a reported $20,000 on James’ since-ended engagement to the lady he later had a months-long affair with behind the again of his now-ex Ariana Madix.
“Now he’s in bother with the IRS. You’re paying $20,000 for any person else’s proposal with a lady that you simply in all probability had been already hooking up with,” Jax suspected. “What Tom does, he does issues to look good on TV. He makes use of this as a decoy. That is his M.O. He does issues for different individuals so he seems to be good in entrance of different individuals however he’s not likely an excellent particular person.”
Though Jax didn’t specify how a lot Sandoval allegedly owes to the IRS, or how he would know concerning the federal debt, he stated he feels unhealthy that Ariana is financially tied to him.
“Poor Ariana has to take care of all Tom’s tax points, liens in opposition to his home, IRS owing this, now she has to take care of that as a result of she was linked to him,” he defined. “Little did she know he was borrowing in opposition to the home to pay for the restaurant that he’s received happening that’s about to go below.”
Whereas Jax and Sandoval had been shut pals for a few years, their relationship ended years in the past, with Jax returning a Samurai sword Sandoval beforehand gifted him.
“I needed to return it. I simply didn’t need something from that man,” he admitted. “He makes use of issues in opposition to individuals. I put it on his patio. Nothing from him is honest. I do know this man just like the again of my hand. I’ve identified him for 20 years.”
“It’s a recreation. It’s a present. It’s a facade. It’s not actual,” he added.
Acknowledging his personal previous misdeeds, together with dishonest on his now-wife Brittany Cartwright, Jax stated what Sandoval did to Ariana is worse.
“The distinction is the way in which he went about this and his lack of empathy and simply the entire affair factor. Everybody on the present has cheated… But it surely’s by no means gone to this,” he famous.
Jax additionally cheated on Stassi. Nevertheless, earlier than they break up, the couple almost starred in their very own present.
“Stassi and I did a bit actuality present collectively within the Bahamas for like 4 days, a pilot,” Jax revealed.
Transferring on to Raquel, Sandoval stated that whereas he doesn’t know her in addition to everyone else, he believes she’s “going by some issues upstairs.”
“I feel perhaps she must get some assist,” he informed Heather. “I feel she’s received some points… I feel she’s received a bit bit greater than most, and I feel perhaps the present magnified numerous that, and I feel it’s a really overwhelming present to be on, and I really feel like she simply wished to be accepted.”
“I really feel like she was perhaps misplaced, making an attempt to determine the place she slot in in society, perhaps,” Jax continued. “I feel she was making an attempt to search for herself a bit bit, after which she discovered the present, and I feel she was simply making an attempt to be accepted and slot in the place, how can I be the preferred?”
He then nodded to suspicions raised by Peter Madrigal and Dayna Kathan, who steered Raquel isn’t in a psychological well being facility, however at a spa.
“I hope she’s not simply going to a resort and saying ‘I’m in a psychological well being [facility]’ That’s what I heard too, that she’s simply staying at a resort and telling folks that she has psychological well being issues… and utilizing this as a scape goat, I hope that’s not the case,” he shared.
Trying again at his time with Raquel on Pump Guidelines, Jax stated Raquel used to script herself.
“We might catch her actually have a script in her hand, and he or she would follow her traces, and we’d catch her like, ‘Are you studying traces of a actuality present that’s imagined to be simply off the cuff?’” he recalled. “In her protection, she was simply actually nervous.”
Jax then commented on his complaints to producers about Sandoval.
“Sandoval was very like ‘I’m not speaking about my [relationship]. He by no means talked about him and Ariana,” Jax defined. “And I had arguments about this off-camera with manufacturing. ‘That is bullsh-t. We’re on a actuality present collectively, he all the time will get away with not speaking about his private issues He can all the time simply scapegoat it and go into everyone else’s and inform everyone else learn how to act.”
“I stated this for years: ‘This sh-t’s not honest. We’re all on this collectively. We’re all making X quantity of {dollars}. That you must put within the work, too,’” he added.
The three-part Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 reunion begins subsequent Wednesday, Could 24, at 9/8c on Bravo.
