Tom Sandoval Breaks Silence About Cheating Scandal In Emotional Statement: ‘I Deserve Your Anger’

Vanderpump Rules’ Tom Sandoval is speaking retired aft helium allegedly cheated connected Ariana Madix with their co-star Raquel Leviss. “Hey, I afloat recognize and merit ur choler and disappointment towards me, but delight permission Schwartz my friends and household retired of this situation…,” Tom, 39, began. He past addressed his concern spouse Tom Schwartz, who Raquel was recently accused of hooking up with arsenic good aft his his divorce from Katie Maloney.

“Schwartz specifically lone recovered retired astir this precise recently, and astir decidedly did not condone my actions. This was a precise idiosyncratic thing,” helium went on. Sandoval besides reminded fans that bar-restaurant Schwartz & Sandy’s “might person my sanction connected it” but that determination are “three different partners” and “20 employees” who trust connected the concern for their income. “Please nonstop ur choler towards maine and not them,” helium begged arsenic helium apologized to them and said that helium “needs clip to code everything.”

It appears that Tom and Ariana person ended their 9 twelvemonth narration amid the scandal. Per reports, Madix, 37, spotted evidently inappropriate messages sent betwixt Raquel and Tom arsenic helium performed with his set Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras connected Wednesday, March 1. The romance betwixt Sandoval and Raquel allegedly has gone connected for implicit six months, per PEOPLE magazine.

Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix dated for 9 years. (JA/Everett Collection)

“This has been going connected for upwards of 6 months — each the while, Tom was sleeping adjacent to Ariana successful bed,” a root told the magazine. “She was wholly blindsided by this; devastated doesn’t adjacent scratch the aboveground of however she feels. This is idiosyncratic she thought she knew; idiosyncratic she planned to walk the remainder of her beingness with. You can’t adjacent enactment into words that betrayal,” the root added.

Fresh disconnected the ungraded making the rounds, Raquel’s ex-fiancé James Kennedy value successful by posting a screenshot of the header from TMZ. “Hope you each consciousness arsenic sick arsenic I do. This explains everything,” helium said. Notably, James and Raquel began dating successful 2016, yet becoming engaged successful May 2021 — but broke up six months later.

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