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Ariana Madix claims Raquel Leviss‘ interview on Bethenny Frankel‘s podcast made her each “unhappy” and “offended” — each attributable to what Raquel stated and what Bethenny stated.
Days after the three-part interview went reside, the Vanderpump Guidelines star, 38, appeared on Scheana Shay‘s podcast, the place she reacted to various claims made by Raquel, 28, together with her allegations of their supposedly faux friendship, her feedback in regards to the reported “abuse” she sustained on the reunion, and extra.
“I want her the most effective in Arizona. I believe that she’s about to be 30 or one thing and she will go reside an extended, joyful life. I simply assume that staying away from all that is in all probability the most effective transfer,” Ariana advised Scheana, 38, on the August 25 episode of Scheananigans of Raquel’s choice to relocate from Los Angeles to Arizona and give up Pump Guidelines.
In March, after Ariana caught Raquel and then-boyfriend, Tom Sandoval, 40, in an affair by coming throughout an NSFW video of Raquel on Sandoval’s cellphone, she and her castmates had been met with letters of stop and desist from Raquel, who reportedly feared the video could be shared.
Instantly, Ariana’s lawyer responded to the letter by assuring her it wouldn’t occur.
“My lawyer made all of that very clear. When she despatched a stop and desist to the solid as a precaution, [which I] positively assume [is] an awesome concept [and] the suitable factor to do… My lawyer responded to stated precaution with very thorough, very clear data that proved and confirmed it was like, ‘Completely not. Right here you go. Right here’s proof,’” she revealed.
And along with applauding Raquel for taking the precaution, she felt a dialog with Sandoval also needs to happen.
“That may be a large challenge and that’s one thing that she ought to tackle with him instantly,” she stated of Raquel’s declare that the clip was recorded with out her consent.
After then noting that “it does” seem to be Raquel remains to be defending Tom in methods, Ariana confirmed she has by no means “proven or despatched that video” to anybody.
“I don’t have it. I didn’t maintain onto it for any cause. That video was gone, gone, gone, gone, gone earlier than I ever even referred to as her on the cellphone,” she said. “I noticed perhaps about 5 seconds of that. I wasn’t sitting there like, popping popcorn for film evening… I do know that she stated that folks find out about what’s in it. It’s quite simple. I’m not going to get into the small print however there’s not numerous particulars. It’s simple.”
In latest weeks, Ariana has been seen with Sandoval on various events, main many to imagine that the 2 of them have filmed collectively for the upcoming eleventh season of Pump Guidelines. Nonetheless, as Ariana clarified, the 2 of them don’t truly movie collectively.
“There’s been some confusion as a result of there’s been some all-cast issues which have occurred the place I’ve been in the identical neighborhood as him however to make it very clear, he and I don’t movie collectively,” she defined. “I’ve not forgiven him. We aren’t cool. That has not modified in any respect.”
As for Raquel saying she and Sandoval didn’t have longevity and had been staying collectively for the sake of their model, Ariana famous that the truth that they had been collectively for 9 years says in any other case.
“9 years, which is a few third of my life, nearly 1 / 4 of my life, that’s what we in the actual world name longevity. If she was being advised different stuff about model, enterprise, [etc], she was being advised by the opposite celebration within the relationship as a method to justify or get away with what was taking place behind my again,” Ariana suspected. “If that’s the opinion, that’s an opinion held by one particular person within the relationship and that particular person just isn’t me. [I] by no means as soon as ever checked out my relationship as a enterprise or a model, that’s f*cking bizarre … [And] the one model and enterprise factor that we did collectively was the guide and Alka-Seltzer.”
Ariana went on to say that Sandoval and Raquel merely “didn’t care” about her.
“They didn’t care about me in any respect. They didn’t care that Charlotte died. They didn’t care that my grandma died. They didn’t care about what this may do to me,” she stated. “Each ‘I really like you’ was a faux. Each time I believed we had been all joking round having enjoyable, it was a faux. It was like an inside joke between the 2 of them. I used to be a joke… and so yeah, I’m gonna have some fairly harsh phrases for individuals who handled me like a literal piece of trash, that didn’t care what occurred to me in any respect and nonetheless to this present day haven’t been remorseful about it.”
Through the season 10 reunion, which was filmed simply three weeks after Sandoval and Raquel’s affair was uncovered, Ariana and her co-stars, in fact, lashed out at each events. And whereas some have recommended she was too exhausting on Raquel, like Bethenny, Ariana denied any such factor.
“I imagine my response to what was finished to me in that second was precisely what I’d assume any particular person would reply with in that second,” she posed. “Listening to Bethenny say one thing about, ‘If that was my youngster I’d’ve murdered somebody,’ based mostly on some phrases that had been stated in response to what I endured for seven months and had simply came upon about, nicely, you understand, I’d wish to say that I’ve a mom who feels fairly strongly about what was finished to me for seven months behind my again, and she or he actually doesn’t assume that me responding to all that with some harsh and warranted phrases is the worst factor that may occur.”
“If I sat down and had a dialog along with her at the moment, would I say the identical issues? In all probability not,” she continued, “however I used to be solely going to talk to her that one time and by no means once more. I didn’t have another communication along with her and I’ll by no means have another communication along with her.”
Concerning the suggestion that she and Raquel weren’t buddies off-screen, Ariana felt the concept was put on the market to make the affair “not that large of a deal” as Scheana suspected Raquel was “trying to vary the narrative that she slept along with her greatest good friend’s man.”
“I’m undecided whose choice it was to attempt to diminish the friendships and attempt to diminish what’s a really actual present… but it surely was a foul choice and it was a really unfaithful assertion or collection of statements to make… All that does is diminish what I went by means of and all this stuff that had been very and are very actual,” she shared, including that Raquel’s declare was “very hurtful.”
“That was a really apparent lie,” she went on. “That assertion might be so simply refuted with photographic proof, the Saturday evening earlier than the Wednesday evening that I discovered this out was an instance of her and I hanging out off-camera at Avalon. If she feels in any other case, that sucks as a result of I used to be very a lot underneath the impression that we had been, like, actually good buddies… If all of that was faux to her, that simply actually sucks for me as a result of it wasn’t faux to me.”
Wanting again on Raquel’s interview, which she learn recaps of on-line, Ariana confessed, “It has impacted [my mental health].”
“A few of the issues that had been stated made me actually unhappy, made me offended,” she defined. “I perceive that with Rachel, she’s nonetheless going together with issues that had been advised to her… I can perceive why she put numerous weight onto what was advised to her, so a part of me is like, ‘Okay, I get why, though you need to know higher at this level that these issues will not be true, you’re selecting to imagine him.’”
As for Bethenny, Ariana fired again on the RHONY alum for suggesting that as a result of she nonetheless lives with Sandoval, she should’ve forgiven him.
“Bethenny is who I really feel like ought to have recognized higher, and who truly I believe upset me extra within the issues that had been stated as a result of even I assume as just lately as no matter podcast she did after the actual fact, she stated, ‘Ariana’s forgiven him.’ I’m like ‘Why are you talking for me? To start with, I don’t know you, and also you don’t know what the f*ck you’re speaking about, woman.’ So there have been numerous issues stated by her that truly I believe made me extra offended as a result of I really feel like she ought to know higher,” Ariana said.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 is anticipated to premiere on Bravo someday later this 12 months or in early 2024.
