Ariana Madix claims Raquel Leviss thought Tom Sandoval was in an open relationship

Ariana Madix denies claims Raquel Leviss was “manipulated” to imagine Tom Sandoval was in an open relationship initially of their affair.

Through the “Vanderpump Guidelines: Pumped Up Version” reunion, Schean Shay claimed that Sandoval advised Leviss that he and Madix weren’t unique in April 2022 – simply months earlier than their romp started.

Due to this, one fan recommended that the solid is perhaps too harsh on Leviss, who could have thought she was doing no hurt due to Sandoval’s alleged lies.

“May it’s that he manipulated Raquel the identical approach Ariana claimed he manipulated her for years,” wrote a fan beneath Instagram Web page Six. “I imply, why would Raquel not imagine him when he advised her so?” He took her on trip to satisfy her mother and father, they even spent Christmas collectively.”

Nonetheless, the suggestion didn’t sit properly with Madix, who tried to straighten out the document in the feedback part.

“Simply to make clear, she didn’t BELIEVE it,” the “VPR” star replied. “She advised somebody he advised her. Main passages are lacking right here, which is totally comprehensible. They’ll’t match each little bit of context into the present.”

She continued: “He additionally spent Christmas with me and my household in Los Angeles (picture proven in the finale) earlier than splitting up his time and going house to see him after. First trip with out my grandma please bear in mind.”

Shay, 38, first advised Madix, 37, about Sandoval’s alleged feedback after the affair was revealed in March.

“Apparently in April [2022], advised this individual that at Coachella, after you went to sleep, they had been in the new tub, he commented on her and stated, “So you recognize Ariana and I are open, proper?” And that he began hitting on her at fucking Coachella,” Shay stated throughout the “VPR” finale.

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Madix, who appeared surprised by the declare, insisted that “it was by no means the case.”

Madix and Sandoval, 40, have battled rumors of open relationships all season, with the would-be rocker beforehand calling the accusations “essentially the most fucking ridiculous factor ever.”

Nonetheless, in mild of Leviss and Sandoval’s bombshell romance, Madix revealed that she believed the rumors “got here from him” all alongside.

The proprietor of a sandwich store came upon concerning the months-long affair after she noticed a FaceTime recording of her former greatest good friend on her ex-boyfriend’s telephone. She instantly dumped him, and the aftermath of the affair was captured in the tenth season of the hit present Bravo.

“Vanderpump Guidelines” airs Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. EST on Bravo, whereas the uncensored, longer model of “Pumped Up” airs on Peacock the next day.