Ariana Madix, 37, stepped retired successful Los Angeles connected Thursday, March 16 with a immense grin and a caller fresh ‘do. The Vanderpump Rules prima was spotted heading to luncheon with a pal with astir bleach-blonde hairsbreadth — a alteration from the honey-blonde hairsbreadth she rocked astatine her ex’s TomTom motorboat party she raved astir past period connected Instagram. It’s besides a brighter shadiness than she had astatine her friend’s destination wedding earlier this month, wherever she was besides seen looking genuinely blessed with a grin connected her face. Photos of the world prima with her lighter look tin beryllium seen here.
As fans know, Ariana is presently dealing with the aftermath of uncovering retired her fellow of astir a decade, Tom Sandoval, was indulging successful a months-long matter with their Vanderpump Rules co-star and Ariana’s friend Raquel Leviss, 28. The shocking quality — which came retired connected March 3 — reportedly blindsided Ariana, and she turned to her friends, including Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, Scheana Shay, and former VPR star Kristen Doute, for support. “Ariana has recapped what happened with her friends and castmates, the bulk of whom are disappointed Tom seems incapable to instrumentality accountability for his actions oregon explicit important remorse,” an insider told Page Six for a March 6 report.
Ariana broke her silence connected the substance via a March 16 Instagram station that showed her fanning herself arsenic she wore a stunning pinkish and greenish ombre dress. “i privation to explicit my astir sincere gratitude for the outpouring of emotion and enactment one person received from friends, family, and radical i’ve ne'er adjacent met successful the past 2 weeks,” she began successful the caption. “when one person felt similar one couldn’t adjacent stand, you each person fixed maine the spot to proceed and seen maine done my darkest hours.”
“to accidental one person been devastated and breached is an understatement. however, one cognize that one americium not successful this alone,” she continued. “so galore of my closest friends are besides grieving this nonaccomplishment close present and reeling from this betrayal connected truthful galore levels. one americium truthful fucking fortunate to person the champion enactment strategy successful the satellite and one anticipation one tin repay each azygous idiosyncratic for the emotion you person shown me. what doesn’t termination maine amended run.”
Tom shared an apology connected March 5, but alternatively than apologizing to Ariana, helium told his Schwartz & Sandy’s barroom and edifice household — including portion proprietor and co-star Tom Schwartz — however overmuch helium regretted that his actions whitethorn impact them. “Hey, I afloat recognize and merit ur choler and disappointment towards me, but delight permission Schwartz my friends and household retired of this situation…,” helium began successful the Instagram post, trying to support his crew. “Schwartz specifically lone recovered retired astir this precise recently, and astir decidedly did not condone my actions. This was a precise idiosyncratic thing.” He besides noted that would beryllium taking a measurement backmost from the edifice for the foreseeable future.
He followed up with an apology to Ariana connected March 8. “I privation to archetypal and foremost apologize to everyone I’ve wounded done this process. 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,” helium began successful his 2nd apology. “I tin lone ideate however devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone astir us. I consciousness truly horrible astir that.”
“My biggest regret is that I dishonored Ariana,” helium continued successful the lengthy post. “I ne'er meant to disappoint truthful galore people, including our loving families and friends. My emotion for Ariana was stronger than immoderate camera could person ever captured. Some of our champion times unneurotic were ne'er filmed. The aforesaid goes for immoderate of our biggest struggles. I privation things happened successful a antithetic bid and our narration was not severely tarnished, and that it ended with the aforesaid respect with for her that it began with. I owed Ariana better.”
“I americium beyond bittersweet that it ended the mode it did. The choices I made wounded truthful galore people,” helium reiterated. “I acted successful a mode that clashes with who and however I privation to be. I volition proceed to bespeak and enactment connected myself. I person enactment to do. I ever person and I ever will.”
Raquel, too, publicly apologized to Ariana successful a connection she shared with Entertainment Tonight. “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. There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana,” she said.
She continued, “I americium reflecting connected my choices, speaking to a counsellor and I americium learning things astir myself specified arsenic my patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved. I person sought affectional validation done intimate connections that are not steadfast without respect for my ain well-being, sometimes negatively affecting others and often prioritizing the intimate transportation implicit my friendships. I americium taking steps to recognize my behaviour and marque healthier choices.”
She went connected to corroborate that she has started counseling to assistance get to the basal of and eradicate her troubling behaviour and signed disconnected by saying she volition beryllium prioritizing her intelligence wellness going forward.
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