Tom Schwartz Says Tom Sandoval ‘Made’ Him Kiss Co-Star Raquel Leviss: I ‘Didn’t Want To’

Raquel Leviss, 28, and Tom Schwartz, 40, made headlines past summertime erstwhile they were spotted making retired astatine Scheana Shay and Brock Davies‘ Cancun wedding. Now, an interrogation successful which Tom claimed that Tom Sandoval, 39, made him bash it has resurfaced. “Oh my God. [Sandoval] made maine bash it. I didn’t privation to bash it. He’s like, ‘If you don’t bash it, you’re a wussy… He steamrolled me,” Schwartz told ET Canada astatine the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 premiere successful February.

The eyebrow-raising remark was brought to airy conscionable 2 days aft Stassi Schroeder said helium believes Raquel and Schwartz’s Season 10 storyline was a “cover-up” for the matter that was ongoing betwixt Raquel and Sandoval arsenic helium was dating Ariana Madix, 37. The cheating was made nationalist past week and led to the demise of Ariana and Sandoval’s nine-year relationship. “It sounds similar thing that Sandoval would person travel up with,” she theorized connected the March 8 occurrence of her Straight Up With Stassi podcast. “He would beryllium like, ‘This would beryllium a large mode to screen up.’ It’s a cover-up.”

Raquel Leviss and Tom Schwartz had a little fling successful Aug. 2022 (Photo: Shutterstock)

She besides noted that Shwartz’s ex, Katie Maloney, thought thing was disconnected astir his involvement successful Raquel. She adjacent claimed that Katie, who was successful the mediate of a divorce from Schwartz, thought they “hurt” her “for a story.” Nothing ever came of their Mexican emotion sessions, and it was lone brought backmost into the spotlight erstwhile Sandoval was outed arsenic a cheater.

He and Raquel some apologized to Ariana this week for hurting her truthful deeply. “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,” Tom wrote successful a lengthy connection helium shared connected his  Instagram provender connected March 8. “No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly.”

“I tin lone ideate however devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone astir us,” the Schwartz & Sandy’s co-owner continued. “I consciousness truly horrible astir that. My biggest regret is that I dishonored Ariana. 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 added, nearing the extremity of his apology. “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.”

Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix dated for 9 years earlier breaking up successful March 2023 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Raquel followed up with an apology to Ariana — who she supposedly considered a person — connected March 9. “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 successful a statement. “There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana.”

“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,” she continued. “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 past seemed to question sympathy by saying that she, too, has been wounded by the matter due to the fact that she had mislaid friendships and was allegedly physically assaulted arsenic a effect of it. She concluded that she has already started counseling to assistance her hole her underlying issues that drove her to wounded those adjacent to her. “Right present I indispensable absorption connected my ain wellness and good being and arsenic I strive to beryllium a amended idiosyncratic moving forward, I volition prioritize my intelligence wellness and larn from my mistakes,” she concluded.

Ariana has yet to code her heartbreak publically but is reportedly leaning connected immoderate of her Vanderpump Rules co-stars Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, and Scheana Shay, and former VPR star and Tom’s ex Kristen Doute for support.

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