Ariana Madix Bonds With Scheana Shay & Her Daughter Amid Tom Sandoval Cheating Scandal

Ariana Madix decided to bent retired with bully pal Scheana Shay successful the midst of her breakup with longtime fellow Tom Sandoval, after helium allegedly hooked up with their Vanderpump Rules costar Raquel Leviss. With the cheating scandal making waves among the ‘VP’ squad, Ariana recovered solace with Scheana, who has her ain storyline successful the drama (more connected that below), and Scheana’s adorable daughter, Summer. Scheana took to Summer’s Instagram connected Tuesday, March 7 to stock a photograph of the brace and to amusement disconnected her enactment for Ariana by captioning it, “#TeamAriana Auntie 🦄 for the win.”

As the quality of the divided and alleged months-long matter betwixt Tom and Raquel continued to expanse Camp Vanderbilt Rules, Raquel broke her silence the time aft Scheana’s Instagram station and offered her mea culpa. “I privation to apologize for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans truthful invested successful our relationships,” Raquel told Entertainment Tonight. “There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana.”

Raquel went connected to uncover that she started therapy to extremity her “unhealthy behavioral cycle” and “protect” her intelligence health. She vowed to beryllium a “better person” moving forward. In the lengthy statement, she besides said she received decease threats implicit the ungraded and claimed that she was physically assaulted.

It’s unclear what incidental of carnal battle Raquel was referencing, but this is wherever Scheana mightiness travel backmost into the fold, arsenic Raquel conscionable placed a restraining order against her erstwhile BFF, per TMZ. The outlet reported that the restraining bid cited the rumor that Scheana “got violent” with Raquel aft Scheana recovered retired astir the alleged affair betwixt Raquel and Tom.

Ariana and Scheana hung retired successful the midst of Ariana’s divided with Tom. (Hahn Lionel/ABACA/Shutterstock)

Hours earlier Raquel made her nationalist apology, Tom took to his ain Instagram on March 8 to stock a caller connection pursuing his cheating scandal. “I privation to archetypal and foremost apologize to everyone I’ve wounded done this process,” Tom wrote. “Most of all, I privation to apologize to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that wounded idiosyncratic I love. No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly.” Tom, who dated Ariana since 2014, had made an earlier nationalist statement, but did not straight apologize to Ariana.

Meanwhile, Andy Cohen confirmed fans would get to spot the fallout of Tom and Ariana’s relationship play retired during Season 10 of Vanderpump Rules. As HollywoodLife reported earlier, Bravo producers were successful the mediate of filming the season, erstwhile the breakup/affair quality broke, and they made plans to drawback each the play connected camera.

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