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Tom Sandoval regarded again on the second Rachel “Raquel” Leviss ended their relationship amid a months-long stint in a psychological healthcare facility after this week’s episode of Vanderpump Guidelines.
After he was seen struggling along with his estrangement from his former mistress, Sandoval, 41, revealed why he believes Raquel, 29, stopped speaking to him as he defined how he empowered and supported her all through her remedy. Plus, his ex Ariana Madix, 38, revealed the one mutual good friend of her and Tom’s who failed to chop ties with him following the reveal of his and Raquel’s secret romance.
“I feel there’s a variety of causes,” Tom stated of why Raquel lower ties on the February 13 episode of the Pump Guidelines: After Present. “It hurts me to listen to the issues that she says as a result of I used to be at all times such a champion of her and being empowered by herself and making her personal choices. I used to be at all times the one to push her up and inform her what a sensible, highly effective girl she is and is changing into.”
Whereas Tom didn’t know for positive why Raquel ceased communications amid her remedy, he suspected her dad and mom — and her publicist — had been concerned.
“I feel a variety of it needed to do along with her dad and mom not liking me and being mad that she ended up within the state of affairs and blaming me for that. Clearly, it’s partly my fault. It’s partly her fault. I’m undoubtedly not innocent however her publicist would simply continually say ‘optics, optics, optics,’” he recalled. “And I feel the optics of the state of affairs turned the precedence over the whole lot else.”
In keeping with Tom, Raquel stopped speaking to him “shortly earlier than [he] did Particular Forces” final summer season, regardless of the efforts he made to assist her as she sought remedy post-affair.
“[It was] actually laborious. It was so defeating,” he stated of dropping contact. “I used to be doing the whole lot I may to be in there along with her. That’s why I stop ingesting. That’s why I stop smoking. As a result of I knew she couldn’t do this. I wished her when she bought to be like, on the identical web page. Like, possibly we may have our first drink collectively.”
In her personal Pump Guidelines: After Present section, Ariana was requested about her choice to chop ties with anybody who was nonetheless buddies with Tom.
“I am going again to the night time that was dubbed The Funeral. Everybody was at my home and everybody was simply there type of sitting and holding house for one another,” she revealed of the moments that adopted the reveal of Tom and Raquel’s affair. “We had The Workplace on the TV as a result of all I may watch was reruns of The Workplace and I lastly, it was like 9 o’clock, I lastly fell asleep on the sofa. It was the primary time I’d slept in days and mainly, all of the those who had been there that night time [are] who I’m like, these had been all of the mutuals.”
Though the vast majority of her and Tom’s mutual buddies ended their relationships with Tom as quickly as they discovered of his infidelity, there was one one who didn’t: Billie Lee, 39.
“I take into consideration, ‘Was there anyone there that night time that hangs out [with Tom]?’ And Billie is the one particular person,” Ariana acknowledged.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
