Kristen Doute Says Tom Sandoval Sent Her Money After Demotion

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Kristen Doute confirmed she was secretly demoted forward of the seventh season of Vanderpump Rules on the newest episode of her podcast.

While reacting to Tom Sandoval, 41, giving Scheana Shay, 38, 1000’s of {dollars} amid her pandemic struggles, which Scheana spoke about on Tuesday’s Pump Rules, breaking down as she mentioned her blended emotions about their relationship, Kristen, 41, regarded again on a “genuine” monetary gesture Sandoval made in direction of her after their break up.

“Scheana brought up the money that Tom gave her during the pandemic. And that was the first time in a long time that I felt, I don’t know how to describe the feeling. It wasn’t sympathy for Tom but it was a little glimpse of like, ‘Oh yeah, there’s that guy who does nice things for people,’” Kristen mentioned on the March 6 episode of Sex, Love, and What Else Matters with Kristen Doute, through Reality Ops on Instagram, reacting to the occasions of Tuesday’s episode.

“This isn’t something I’ve ever heard Tom talk about publicly. So it’s like he didn’t do it to be patted on the back,” she famous.

Looking again at certainly one of her closing seasons on Pump Rules, Kristen mentioned that after being demoted, Sandoval tried to ship her 1000’s of {dollars} to make up for the cash she misplaced.

“I believe it was my second to last season on Vanderpump Rules. There was a Witches of WeHo wine party. [Katie Maloney], [Stassi Schroeder], and I were not getting along. So to be very transparent, at that time, I’d been demoted that season from an episodic paid cast member to a day rate,” she defined. “So that episode, I was in, but like, barely, and so I didn’t get paid. But Tom Sandoval happened to be there and he was in it for like a blink of an eye, like a half a second, which didn’t even cross my mind.”

According to Kristen, she obtained a PayPal reward from Sandoval after the episode aired.

“Tom and I weren’t even, we’ve never been super tight friends since our breakup, but we were like buddies, and [Ariana Madix] and I were friends. I randomly, without him telling me, I get this PayPal for a few thousand dollars from Tom Sandoval. I’m like ‘What the f*ck?’ This has to be a mistake,” she shared.

But it wasn’t a mistake.

“[He] says, ‘No, I meant to send that to you. I’m gonna send it again,’ which I didn’t accept it … But he sent it to me because he said he did not think it was fair that he got paid his full episodic payment for being in the episode for a split second when I carried that episode on my back and only got paid nickels in comparison,” she defined.

Due to Sandoval’s previous gesture, Kristen mentioned she was impacted by Scheana’s confession concerning the monetary assist she obtained from her castmate.

“[It] really hit me emotionally because Scheana and I are a lot of like in a lot of ways, being people pleasers, being very loving, being very sensitive, very emotional, carrying a lot of weight on our shoulders. And so it just brought me back to that moment, and I really felt for Scheana in that moment because that was a genuine move that Tom made in the same [way] he did with me,” she famous. “I don’t think anyone really knows that he did that.”

“So he’s not all bad?” her boyfriend and co-host, Luke Broderick, requested in response.

“I don’t know about now,” Kristen replies, “[but] primarily, the scene, Scheana’s like, ‘At the end of the day, I’m Team Ariana until I die.’ This is the primary time we see Scheana cry. I used to be like, choking again tears. I can not watch Scheana cry. I can’t. It breaks my f*cking coronary heart.

While Kristen appeared to have compassion for Sandoval on her podcast episode, she reacted to the concept in an Instagram Story, together with the clip and telling her followers and followers, “Please listen to the entire episode if you’re going to weigh in on this ONE clip.”

She additionally wrote, “I do not feel badly for him,” together with a hyperlink to the complete episode.

Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.