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Ariana Madix believes Bravo coated for Tom Sandoval amid his controversial interview with the New York Times, throughout which he in contrast “Scandoval” to the media consideration surrounding the loss of life of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis in 2020.
Following Sandoval’s controversial remarks, Ariana, 38, weighed in on Bravo’s response to the feedback whereas additionally sharing how a lot he actually supplied her for their $2 million home, reacting to her potential fall from grace on Vanderpump Rules season 11, and revealing what would make her stroll away from the fact present.
“I was just blown away by how anybody could say something so awful,” Ariana mentioned throughout a February 29 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “[And] it was interesting how much Bravo was trying to cover for him.”
In the New York Times cowl story, after it was famous that Sandoval had mentioned “the O.J. Simpson thing and George Floyd” had been “a little bit the same” as “Scandoval,” the author revealed that their interview was left incomplete as Bravo seemingly dodged their efforts to reschedule.
As the author shared, their interview with Sandoval was imagined to proceed the following day, however he claimed to be in poor health. Then, after a collection of communications with Bravo workers, together with Pump Rules government producer Alex Baskin and a community publicist, the priority was clear.
Although Sandoval in the end accomplished his interview, it wasn’t till weeks later that it reconvened, and this time, he was joined by a Bravo publicist and a senior government from NBCUniversal.
While the L.A. Times reporter talked about to Ariana that having a publicist current to limit sure feedback may very well be thought-about normal observe, Ariana refuted the concept.
“Are they doing that right now with me and you?” she requested.
Once she wraps up her run in Broadway’s Chicago, which was not too long ago prolonged by way of April, Ariana will seemingly return to her and Sandoval’s residence, which stays a supply of competition between them.
According to Ariana, who filed for a partition of sale, which might require them to promote the property and cut up the earnings, Sandoval doesn’t need to depart the house and despatched her a letter of intent, saying he’d pay her $600,000 for her portion of the house, which he primarily based on a $3.1 million estimate.
“No formal offer was made. He didn’t get an appraisal,” she clarified after Sandoval claimed on Nick Viall‘s podcast, The Viall Files, that he “gave her an offer of $3.1 million.”
While season 10 ended with everybody at odds with Sandoval, season 11 has hinted at a fall from grace for Ariana.
“It gives me tall poppy syndrome a bit. The tallest poppy has to get cut down. There’s a lot of eyes on me, so it’s like, ‘Let’s cut this girl down to size,’” she defined. “I feel like I’m working, living and being pretty f*cking quiet about everything while also putting my life back together and trying to find a way to set myself up for a decent life as a middle-aged woman who now has to take everything on herself.”
Some have even accused Ariana of being “rewarded” for “Scandoval” and others have complained that they’re “over” her story.
“I’ve had eyeballs on me that were not on me before. That gave me an inch, and I said, ‘OK, let me prove to you that I can do the mile. I can run this marathon because it’s what I’ve been preparing for this whole time,’” she declared. “They say that all the time — ‘I’m over it.’ But them saying that feels a little bit like, ‘Oh, you own my life? You’ve decided that you’ve consumed enough content?’”
Despite the backlash she’s obtained from some, Ariana has no plans to stop Pump Rules.
“The only way I could ever see myself moving away from the show is if I had another job,” she shared.
And whereas sure followers really feel as if Pump Rules is nearing its pure conclusion, Ariana doesn’t suppose the present could be canceled if the scores are nonetheless excessive.
Still, she admitted, “I always feel like the show thrives when it’s at its most authentic, and if it feels like everyone’s stories have been told, I certainly don’t think it would be wise to just try to drum things up to keep it going.”
On the heels of Scandoval, as she coped with heartbreak over her then-partner’s months-long affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, 29, Ariana was bombarded with partnership offers and different affords, which she felt obligated to take.
“I was like, ‘I’m not OK.’ There’s no one here about to bail me out. I don’t have rich parents. I don’t have an inheritance from anybody who’s passed,” she famous. “My team would be like, ‘This is a really great offer from Bic, look at it.’ And I’d say, ‘It is a fantastic offer, but even if it wasn’t, I’m not in a position to say no right now, because I have to make myself financially stable from now until kingdom come.’”
As for those that’ve criticized her as a “walking billboard,” Ariana acknowledged, “Those people don’t want women to work.”
“I think those people are confused about what it is that I do for a living. Those are acting jobs. I’m doing the same job I have done for many years; I’m just working more,” she defined. “And that’s why I signed up for Vanderpump Rules in the first place — to work more … Maybe my path is different than the one I initially wanted, but it’s still great.”
Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
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