Lala Kent hit Tom Sandoval with a critical accusation throughout an explosive struggle on Vanderpump Rules.
In the latest episode, which aired on Tuesday, March 5, Lala, 33, tried to seek out closure with Sandoval, 41, on the finish of their solid journey to Lake Tahoe.
“Can I ask you a question? When you could look me in my eyes and say, ‘You need to be real. You need to be honest with your life.’ All of those things knowing that you were doing what you guys were doing. How could you look at me and say that?” Lala requested Sandoval about how he hid his affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss from his costars. “I genuinely want to know.”
Lala took goal at Sandoval’s previous claims that she didn’t share sufficient of her life with the cameras
“You said it to me often. Then you even went on to do an article the day you guys got caught. It was mind-blowing. It was such a mindf—k,” she mentioned earlier than elaborating in a confessional. “Sandoval was in this publication saying that I have douchey energy and I just need to be real. And I just thought, ‘How poetic that this would come out on this day? And how rich coming from you.’”
Sandoval, in the meantime, defended his feedback about Lala’s relationship with now-ex-fiancé Randall Emmett. (Lala and Randall, 52, took their romance public in 2018 after his cut up from spouse Ambyr Childers. Rumors beforehand swirled, nevertheless, that Lala and Randall’s relationship started earlier than his divorce was finalized.)
“Lala, your entire life was a mystery and off-limits for years and years and we respected that,” Sandoval fired again. “It feels like things are only allowed to be talked about if you are OK with them.”
While speaking to the cameras, Sandoval admitted he didn’t see Lala’s facet of the story, including, “Look, I did lie about the seven-month relationship. Lala lied for a few years of a six-year relationship. We both lied. We are both liars. I think in this instance we both just call this a wash.”
Sandoval remained on the offense about his perception that Lala failed to point out sufficient throughout her few years on Vanderpump Rules. In response, Lala walked off earlier than returning to hurl insults at Sandoval.
“You are insane. I felt bad for you for five f—king seconds and now you are proving to me that you are terrifying,” she instructed Sandoval. “It is all you have on me. You will not allow me to evolve. But yet this happened four months ago and I am allowing you to evolve.”
Lala questioned whether or not she “overestimated” the work Sandoval was doing on himself since his private life made headlines. (In March 2023, information broke about Sandoval and Ariana Madix calling it quits resulting from his infidelity. Sandoval discovered himself on the outs with most of his costars — besides Tom Schwartz — whereas filming season 11 of Vanderpump Rules.)
Tuesday’s heated argument took a stunning flip when Lala revealed why she began to really feel unhealthy for Rachel, 29.
“You know what triggered me was when she said [during the final part of the season 10 reunion], ‘If I don’t fall in line with Sandoval then I have nobody.’ You isolate. You groom. You lie,” Lala instructed Sandoval. “I do not want to know you. You are scary.”
Sandoval, whose relationship with Rachel fizzled out, was livid about Lala’s accusations, saying, “Lala, you don’t know me. Don’t sit there and accuse me of grooming. You do not know me.”
Scheana Shay and her husband, Brock Davies, in the end stepped in and pushed Sandoval to apologize. Sandoval instructed Lala he might perceive why his actions got here off as “hypocritical” after he hid a seven-month affair from his solid members.
“I don’t think I understood you properly,” he mentioned earlier than pulling Lala right into a hug. “I am sorry. I don’t want to be this way around you. I really appreciate you. It means a lot to me. It changed a lot of what I think about you. It is a lot. I am still processing even these days. I am processing everything. It is a lot for everybody.”
Despite exiting the sequence, Rachel has since sounded off on her temporary romance with Sandoval.
“It took me a while to accept, but I learned about love addiction and it’s a real thing. It’s where you confuse intensity for intimacy,” she defined on the “ReWives” podcast in August 2023 after finishing a 90-day keep in a psychological well being facility. “And those chemical changes in the brain are the same chemical changes that happen when you take drugs. So it is addictive, and it explains why I couldn’t stop seeing this person, but it also doesn’t excuse the fact that it happened. But now I know better.”
Season 11 of Vanderpump Rules airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET and is on the market to stream on Peacock the subsequent day.
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