Pump Rules’ Billie Lee Slams Kristen Doute Amid Tom, Ariana Drama

Fueling the hearth! Vanderpump Rules alum Billie Lee fired again at Kristen Doute after the comic’s loyalty to Ariana Madix was known as into query.

Doute, 40, known as out Lee, 39, over the weekend after her former costar was noticed leaving Tom Sandoval’s home on Friday, April 14, within the wake of his break up from Madix, 37. (Us Weekly confirmed in early March that the TomTom cofounder and the Florida native known as it quits as information broke that he had an affair with Raquel Leviss.)

The “Sex, Love and What Else Matters?” podcast cohost claimed earlier this month that Lee was a hypocrite since she “cried at Ariana’s house” days after the scandal made headlines.

“Ya I was crying because they BOTH are my family!” Lee wrote within the feedback part of the preliminary Instagram submit, which was shared by fan account @Cici.Loves.You. on Monday, April 17. “It was sad and still is!”

The stand-up, who left Pump Rules in 2019, then clapped again at Doute’s alleged first response to Sandoval and Madix’s breakup.

“What were you doing while I was crying!?” she requested, earlier than claiming she was “[Literally] taking selfies with everyone including Ariana. Like who does that!?”

The former TV character confessed that “it felt like a funeral” when the Schwartz & Sandy’s co-owner’s relationship with Madix ended and his months-long hookup with Leviss, 28, was made public.

Lee additional alleged on Monday that Doute was “taking selfies” and did not “read the room” because the Buying Back My Daughter actress was processing her breakup. “You’re [sic] friendship is fake and performative,” the previous SUR employee concluded.

Doute, for her half, was fired from Pump Rules in summer time of 2020 after her previous racially insensitive remarks resurfaced. While she hasn’t been on the present since season 8, she agreed to movie scenes for season 10 to point out help for Madix.

“I told [Ariana], ‘I have nothing to gain from this. I, in fact, will probably look like an opportunist or thirsty,’” the Michigan native revealed throughout a March look on the “Viall Files” podcast. “I specifically said to her, ‘This has nothing to do with the network, the production, the ratings, whatever. What do you need? Because you’ve also now had to talk about this a million times with so many people, on and off camera. So if this is just one more time you don’t wanna do that, I don’t need to do it.’ She wanted me to, so I did.”

The James Mae founder has been vocal about being on Team Ariana from day one — as have a lot of her former Bravo costars, together with Katie Maloney and Scheana Shay. Sandoval, for his half, has continued to have help from his BFF Tom Schwartz, whereas Leviss has been seemingly left with out an ally.

Amid the drama, Us confirmed on Friday that the previous pageant queen checked in to a psychological well being facility to course of her current ups and downs. “Raquel and her family decided before the relationship was discovered that she would enter a voluntary facility for mental health counseling,” a rep for Leviss advised Us.

While a few of her castmates, together with Peter Madrigal claimed by way of social media that Leviss is at a “spa resort,” a supply completely advised Us on Monday that’s “absolutely not” true.

Sandoval, in the meantime, was noticed at Coachella shortly after spending time with Lee on Friday. Madix was additionally on the music pageant — and was seen kissing Daniel Wai.

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“Ariana is single and is having the time of her life,” a supply completely advised Us on Monday, noting that the Fancy AF Cocktails coauthor is “open” to seeing what occurs with Wai. “She’s enjoying her freedom and being single for the first time in years.”