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Tom Sandoval regarded again on the second Rachel “Raquel” Leviss ended their relationship amid a months-long stint in a psychological healthcare facility after this week’s episode of Vanderpump Rules.
After he was seen struggling along with his estrangement from his former mistress, Sandoval, 41, revealed why he believes Raquel, 29, stopped speaking to him as he defined how he empowered and supported her all through her therapy. Plus, his ex Ariana Madix, 38, revealed the one mutual buddy of her and Tom’s who failed to chop ties with him following the reveal of his and Raquel’s secret romance.
“I think there’s a lot of reasons,” Tom mentioned of why Raquel minimize ties on the February 13 episode of the Pump Rules: After Show. “It hurts me to hear the things that she says because I was always such a champion of her and being empowered by herself and making her own decisions. I was always the one to push her up and tell her what a smart, powerful woman she is and is becoming.”
While Tom didn’t know for certain why Raquel ceased communications amid her therapy, he suspected her mother and father — and her publicist — have been concerned.
“I think a lot of it had to do with her parents not liking me and being mad that she ended up in the situation and blaming me for that. Obviously, it’s partly my fault. It’s partly her fault. I’m definitely not blameless but her publicist would just constantly say ‘optics, optics, optics,’” he recalled. “And I think the optics of the situation became the priority over everything else.”
According to Tom, Raquel stopped speaking to him “shortly before [he] did Special Forces” final summer time, regardless of the efforts he made to assist her as she sought therapy post-affair.
“[It was] really hard. It was so defeating,” he mentioned of dropping contact. “I was doing everything I could to be in there with her. That’s why I quit drinking. That’s why I quit smoking. Because I knew she couldn’t do that. I wanted her when she got to be like, on the same page. Like, maybe we could have our first drink together.”
In her personal Pump Rules: After Show section, Ariana was requested about her choice to chop ties with anybody who was nonetheless mates with Tom.
“I go back to the night that was dubbed The Funeral. Everyone was at my house and everyone was just there kind of sitting and holding space for each other,” she revealed of the moments that adopted the reveal of Tom and Raquel’s affair. “We had The Office on the TV because all I could watch was reruns of The Office and I finally, it was like 9 o’clock, I finally fell asleep on the couch. It was the first time I’d slept in days and basically, all the people that were there that night [are] who I’m like, these were all the mutuals.”
Although nearly all of her and Tom’s mutual mates ended their relationships with Tom as quickly as they discovered of his infidelity, there was one one who didn’t: Billie Lee, 39.
“I think about, ‘Was there anybody there that night that hangs out [with Tom]?’ And Billie is the only person,” Ariana said.
Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
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