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Raquel Leviss, 28, and Tom Schwartz, 40, made headlines final summer time after they had been noticed making out at Scheana Shay and Brock Davies‘ Cancun wedding ceremony. Now, an interview wherein Tom claimed that Tom Sandoval, 39, made him do it has resurfaced. “Oh my God. [Sandoval] made me do it. I didn’t need to do it. He’s like, ‘If you happen to don’t do it, you’re a wussy… He steamrolled me,” Schwartz advised ET Canada on the Vanderpump Guidelines Season 10 premiere in February.
The eyebrow-raising comment was dropped at mild simply two days after Stassi Schroeder mentioned he believes Raquel and Schwartz’s Season 10 storyline was a “cover-up” for the affair that was ongoing between Raquel and Sandoval as he was courting Ariana Madix, 37. The dishonest was made public final week and led to the demise of Ariana and Sandoval’s nine-year relationship. “It appears like one thing that Sandoval would have provide you with,” she theorized on the March 8 episode of her Straight Up With Stassi podcast. “He can be like, ‘This could be a good way to cowl up.’ It’s a cover-up.”
She additionally famous that Shwartz’s ex, Katie Maloney, thought one thing was off about his curiosity in Raquel. She even claimed that Katie, who was within the center of a divorce from Schwartz, thought they “harm” her “for a narrative.” Nothing ever got here of their Mexican love periods, and it was solely introduced again into the highlight as soon as Sandoval was outed as a cheater.
He and Raquel each apologized to Ariana this week for hurting her so deeply. “I need to initially apologize to everybody I’ve harm by this course of. Most of all, I need to apologize to Ariana. I made errors, I used to be egocentric, and made reckless choices that harm any individual I really like,” Tom wrote in a prolonged assertion he shared on his Instagram feed on March 8. “Nobody deserves to really feel that ache so traumatically and publicly.”
“I can solely think about how devastating this has been for Ariana and everybody round us,” the Schwartz & Sandy’s co-owner continued. “I really feel actually horrible about that. My largest remorse is that I dishonored Ariana. I by no means meant to disappoint so many individuals, together with our loving households and mates. My love for Ariana was stronger than any digital camera might have ever captured. A few of our greatest occasions collectively had been by no means filmed. The identical goes for a few of our largest struggles. I want issues occurred in a unique order and our relationship was not severely tarnished, and that it ended with the identical respect with for her that it started with. I owed Ariana higher.”
“I'm past unhappy that it ended the way in which it did. The alternatives I made harm so many individuals,” he added, nearing the tip of his apology. “I acted in a means that clashes with who and the way I need to be. I'll proceed to replicate and work on myself. I've work to do. I at all times have and I at all times will.”
Raquel adopted up with an apology to Ariana — who she supposedly thought-about a buddy — on March 9. “I need to apologize for my actions and my selections foremost to Ariana, and to my mates and the followers so invested in {our relationships},” Raquel advised Leisure Tonight in an announcement. “There isn't a excuse, I'm not a sufferer and I need to personal my actions and I deeply remorse hurting Ariana.”
“I'm reflecting on my selections, talking to a counselor and I'm studying issues about myself similar to my patterns of codependency and habit to being and feeling cherished,” she continued. “I've sought emotional validation by intimate connections that aren't wholesome with out regard for my very own well-being, generally negatively affecting others and sometimes prioritizing the intimate connection over my friendships. I'm taking steps to grasp my habits and make more healthy selections.”
She then appeared to hunt sympathy by saying that she, too, has been harm by the affair as a result of she had misplaced friendships and was allegedly bodily assaulted on account of it. She concluded that she has already began counseling to assist her repair her underlying points that drove her to harm these near her. “Proper now I need to focus by myself well being and nicely being and as I attempt to be a greater individual transferring ahead, I'll prioritize my psychological well being and be taught from my errors,” she concluded.
Ariana has but to handle her heartbreak publicly however is reportedly leaning on a few of her Vanderpump Guidelines co-stars Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, and Scheana Shay, and former VPR star and Tom’s ex Kristen Doute for help.
