James Kennedy Reveals Ariana’s 1am Text After Affair Broke

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James Kennedy revealed the message he obtained from Ariana Madix instantly after she realized of Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss‘ months-long affair on Wednesday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live.

Before explaining his actual situation with Tom Schwartz, teasing the upcoming (and sure-to-be-dramatic) reunion, and admitting that he hopes Sandoval and Raquel’s controversial romance will final, the Vanderpump Rules star addressed rumors of a kiss between Raquel and Brock Davies, Sandoval’s interview with Howie Mandel, and extra.

During a Q&A sport that requested James if he was jealous on the April 26 episode of WWHL, James denied being jealous of his castmates who’ve made cash off of Scandoval.

“No. Because I’m at the top of the leaderboard on Cameo right now. Cha-ching. Cha-ching! [I charge] $99.99.”

Then, after responding to a fan who requested if he felt girlfriend Ally Lewber regarded like his mother, Jacqueline Georgiou, saying they “don’t really look alike,” James moved on to matters associated to Scandoval.

“Look, there’s mob mentality. There’s mobs nowadays. There’s cancel culture. There’s mobs. If you do something outrageous, expect people to be outraged,” he said.

Although James was in love with Raquel for a few years, he advised host Andy Cohen that he doesn’t have a lot empathy for her, saying she “was always a big Sandoval fan, massive Sandoval fan.”

“Who’s writing these questions? No. Andy, I am very busy in my own life,” he said. “I’m not waking up thinking about Scandoval. The first time I have to look at my phone, I get a little bit of a reminder. But no, I’m not thinking about ‘Oh Scandoval.’ I have no time, Andy.”

He didn’t even have time to look at Sandoval’s full interview with Howie, though he did see clips.

“Oh god, painful, a rock bottom moment,” he described. “And even the darkness of the cave it was in and he’s wearing all black nowadays with a cigarette. It was too much. It was too much. It was too much. I couldn’t get through it.”

James went on to say that he doesn’t consider Sandoval and Ariana had an open relationship. He additionally claims he is aware of “for a fact” that Raquel wasn’t Sandoval’s first affair, and he notes that the final time he noticed Sandoval, other than the reunion, was two days earlier than Scandoval broke.

“I saw Sandoval at my interview space like two days before this all broke out. Literally, ‘Sup bro?’ Acted all chill,” he recalled.

He additionally reacted to claims of a hookup between Raquel and Scheana Shay‘s husband.

“Can I throw up anymore?” he requested. “It’s just too much. Like, if that happened, honestly, I would have to like, I don’t know like, go to a freaking healthy spa or something. But no there’s no truth to that. Please god, there’s no truth to that.”

On the WWHL: After Show, after Andy inspired him to tease the reunion, James replied, “Oh God no. Just wait for it,” however he admitted to feeling happy by the taping.

“Look, I don’t do my talks on socials. I think everyone can agree with that. Lala’s got her thing and I’ve got mine. I get it out on camera, on the show, I get it off my chest and then I let it go,” he defined.

Back on the stay broadcast, James mentioned that in relation to Sandoval and Raquel’s future, he hopes they make it.

“In like a weird way I hope so. Just think about the dreams they’re gonna have in each other’s bed and all the traumatic sh-t they’re gonna go through,” he reasoned. “As a couple, if they survive each other and go through it, I mean, f-cking hats off … I wish them both luck and I wish them the best.”

As for whether or not or not he overreacted to Schwartz evaluating the Imagine Festival, the place he was DJing, to Rachella, his Coachella-themed proposal to Raquel, James mentioned it wasn’t the Rachella half that aggravated him.

“It was the Imagine Festival point that annoyed me. Everyone keeps going back to that other word but I’ve stated so many times, it was about Imagine Festival — something I’ve worked so hard [on],” he shared, including that earlier than pouring his beer on Schwartz, he “poured half of [it] out on the sand.”

Also on WWHL, James defined how he first realized of Sandoval’s affair with Raquel.

“Ariana texted me at one in the morning and I woke up at like 7:30 in the morning and checked my text messages and literally, I was shocked. And then, this is verbatim, I said to Ariana, ‘Which Tom?’ And she wrote back, ‘Mine,’” he recalled. “I was like, ‘Huh?’ Serious stuff. I mean.”

From there, James proceeded to name a lot of his castmates.

“I didn’t call Raquel. I did try calling Sandoval. First person I called was Scheana because I thought she knew,” James revealed. “I was like, ‘How could you do this to Ariana?’ And then she goes, ‘No that girl’s dead to me. I blocked her.’ So I was like, ‘Alright, fine, Scheana’s done.’ Then I called Schwartz and he just sounded like the lost puppy he is, just like, ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, James I’d really rather talk about this person.’ I’m like, ‘Oh God, how does it feel living in Sandoval’s shadow your entire life?’”

Vanderpump Rules season 10 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.