Katie Maloney is opening up about her divorce from Tom Schwartz!
Fans are attending to see the couple’s messy breakup play out within the new season of Vanderpump Rules — and eventually be taught what really led Katie to tug the plug on their relationship after 12 years collectively. It seems the 36-year-old actuality star blames “the other woman in our marriage” for the tip of their relationship — and no, it’s not Raquel Leviss.
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No, it was Schwartz & Sandy’s — the bar he shares with Tom Sandoval!
During a brand new episode of the Bravo present on Wednesday, the 2 greatest mates and enterprise companions lastly opened their new bar and hosted a celebration for the Daily Mail. While this was an enormous second for the Toms, Katie wasn’t in a celebratory temper! In truth, she was feeling fairly upset over the opening! She broke down in tears in a confessional, explaining that her romance with Tom ended, all because of his new enterprise enterprise:
“I’m trying to be excited for Tom, but this bar has a very complicated history. It put a massive strain on our relationship. It just was a lot more of a presence in my life than I thought it would be, without me having say over it. All of the marital issues and arguments and everything we were having has now just been personified. This bar was the other woman in our marriage, and I’m standing inside of her now.”
Yikes. That will need to have made the bash so tough for Katie! Who desires to have fun the wrecking ball that demolished your marriage?
At the occasion, the previous couple sat down to speak, throughout which Tom confessed he devoted most of his consideration to Schwartz & Sandy’s — and to not Katie. He instructed his ex-wife:
“In the divorce, I let myself get sucked in.”
Katie appeared to agree, as she then revealed the stress of the bar’s opening turned an excessive amount of, to the purpose the place it “broke” them:
“It nearly broke you, and it nearly broke me. It broke us kinda, so was it worth it?”
Whoa! Clearly shocked by her assertion, Tom replied:
“Don’t say that. Jesus, I don’t know how to answer that. I just don’t want you to ever think that I chose this place over you because I didn’t.”
However, Katie didn’t see it that means! She insisted the 40-year-old by no means put their marriage first and as a substitute “chose a lot” of issues over her, together with the bar:
“Well, I feel like you chose a lot over me. You never chose me in any side, in any argument, even when it was me having your back in things. It just made me feel like you don’t like me. I think a lot of things I was choosing to ignore and choosing to live with and think that it was okay, and it wasn’t okay.”
Her phrases appeared to hit laborious for Tom, as he apologized for what occurred. The TomTom co-founder additionally instructed Katie he’s “trying to move forward and not beat myself up too much, but I’m self-aware.” Tearfully, he added in a confessional:
“Maybe I wish I had really fought for her, but I think I would’ve been prolonging the pain and making her suffer and detracting from her happiness. I’m so madly in love with this whole bar, this lounge, the concept, but sometimes I ask myself, ‘Was it worth it?’ and I don’t know.”
Oof. He actually stated all of it proper there, didn’t he? He was “madly in love” and it wasn’t together with his spouse. We guess he’ll discover out in the end if it was “worth it!” Reactions, Perezcious readers? Let us know within the feedback beneath.
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