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Tom Schwartz is breaking his silence on the various claims his former flame, Jo Wenberg, has made towards him in current weeks.
After Jo, 35, slammed Schwartz, 40, for “gaslighting” her, leaked texts he allegedly despatched her, and accused him of continuous to succeed in out regardless of his new romance with girlfriend Sophia Skoro, 23, Schwartz appeared on Brittany Cartwright‘s podcast, the place he labeled Jo a “compulsive liar” and accused her of weird habits together with his household.
“I attempted to not contact this. I’m taking the excessive highway. I’m Mr. Rise Above. I don’t go in search of destructive stuff on-line however individuals inevitably ship you stuff, and I’m seeing Jo speaking sh*t about me, like random clips, and I’ve tried to not reply, simply ignore it. Like, saying I’m her soulmate, studying my texts on a livestream and I simply really feel like I’ve to deal with this as a result of I’m beginning to get destructive feedback on my social media,” Schwartz started on the Might 24 episode of When Actuality Hits With Jax and Brittany.
“Clearly, she’s appearing out. Her emotions are harm. I don’t need to invalidate her emotions but in addition, I’ve emotions they usually’re legitimate too,” he continued. “I need to shed a lightweight on my perspective and why I pulled away from her as a result of I really feel like she’s sort of utilizing social media to create this kind of ‘Poor me, I received performed,’ breadcrumbing narrative. She’s constructing a following at my expense and I’m getting uninterested in it.”
In response to Schwartz, Jo has been blocked on social media and deleted from his contacts. However prefer it or not, individuals have despatched him issues about her.
“It’s irritating to see her taking part in the function of a sufferer. Generally you actually dig someone and then you definitely discover some issues out about them that causes you to have a look at them in a very totally different approach. Or generally you simply actually dig someone after which the emotions go away,” he reasoned.
As for when issues took a flip for him and Jo, Schwartz stated that initially of filming on Pump Guidelines season 11, he started to note “erratic habits” and “purple flags.”
“It was quite a lot of issues and I’m not gonna disclose most of these issues however one of many largest issues is I discovered up that she makes up … In my expertise, she’s a compulsive liar,” he revealed.
Then, after Brittany, 35, accused Jo of claiming she and Jax Taylor, 44, known as her to interrupt the information of the passing of Kristen Doute‘s canine, which didn’t occur, Schwartz stated that whereas a few of Joe’s alleged lies have been “benign and non-sensical,” others have been “malicious or manipulative.”
“And low-key, what she’s doing with these livestreams, like constructing a following at my expense, it’s barely manipulating the viewers,” he famous.
“The primary lie that I substantiated and I came upon, simply casually at some point, she talked about she used to babysit for one in every of our government producer’s children,” he recalled. “I had no purpose to query that however I requested him weeks later and he’s like, ‘No, I by no means met her earlier than the present began.’ That was the primary seed of doubt. I didn’t confront her. I used to be identical to ‘Okay,’ after which as time went on … Individuals began popping out of the woodwork and telling me issues about her and I’d shut them down, generally even go to bat for her and defend her. [And] as time went on, another issues occurred.”
A kind of different issues concerned Schwartz’s household.
“A number of the issues I came upon that she instructed my household behind my again, actually f*cking pissed me off, my mother instructed me, my sister instructed me, my brother instructed me … My household received concerned they usually have been like actually f*cking harmful accusations. She went behind my again and known as my household and stated some f*cked up issues,” he shared.
Jo additionally had a wierd encounter together with his sister, who was as soon as a proponent of their relationship.
“She spent two nights with Jo and she or he stated it was one of many worst experiences of her life. She needed to block her afterward and she or he’s like, ‘I’m traumatized.’ She apologized to me profusely for weeks for attempting to push her on me,” Schwartz stated. “That stuff, it simply actually rubbed me the mistaken approach. There’s too many lies … I’ve an inventory of minimal 20, 20 substantiated, confirmed lies.”
As for what was behind Jo’s reported mistruths, Schwartz suspected, “I don’t know if she has an amazing help system. She’s like, in search of validation on social media … She’s in search of short-time clout and imaginary on-line sympathy and I really feel like she’s sacrificing any probability she has for legitimacy or credibility.”
Along with feeling that the sharing of his texts was a “violation,” Schwartz denied contacting her not too long ago.
“I’m identical to, what the f*ck is she speaking about? I’m by no means,” he insisted.
In closing, Schwartz supplied a message for Jo:
“Jo … Present them your hobbies, the sh*t you do, your hair enterprise, browsing, go be zany and wild, simply don’t f*cking attempt to construct a following at my expense,” he suggested.
The Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 reunion concludes Tuesday at 8/7c on Bravo.
