Weighing in. Peter Madrigal has heard the rumors about Tom Sandoval allegedly having an affair with Billie Lee earlier than his break up from Ariana Madix — and he has some ideas on the matter.
“That was what Scheana [Shay] thought. The one factor I say is every part that you just look again on with Sandoval — after this example — you must take into consideration issues,” Madrigal, 38, solely informed Us Weekly whereas attending the fifth annual Vanderpump Canines Gala in Beverly Hills on Thursday, Might 18. “I simply don’t belief the man anymore. It’s simply form of the identical. Particularly after that seven month [or] eight-month affair [with Raquel Leviss].”
The SUR supervisor, who briefly dated Leviss, 28, in 2022, went on to say that he was “reevaluating every part” after the latest Vanderpump Guidelines dishonest scandal.
“I don’t wish to reside in regrets. I don’t remorse something. It’s only a studying scenario. You simply transfer on,” he informed Us, referring to his fling with the mannequin earlier than her August 2022 hookup with Tom Schwartz and secret romance with Sandoval, 40.
Us confirmed in March that Sandoval and Madix, 37, had known as it quits after practically a decade of relationship attributable to his infidelity with Leviss. Because the drama performed out publicly, a number of Vanderpump Guidelines stars similar to Lala Kent questioned whether or not the TomTom co-owner had been untrue up to now.
“You assume that is the primary time he’s been creeping round? Nobody chooses proper off the bat, ‘I’m going to cheat on my woman with a finest good friend of hers.’ No. That is comfortability,” the sweetness mogul, 32, mentioned within the season 10 finale, which aired on Wednesday, Might 17.
Kent claimed she had suspicions about Sandoval’s friendship with Lee, 39, for years. (The previous SUR hostess appeared on the hit Bravo collection from 2017 to 2018.)
“A number of years in the past, I heard the rumors that Tom and Billie Lee go off and do no matter they go and do,” the Utah native mentioned throughout a confessional. “We have to open that case again up. It went chilly and I don’t assume it must be chilly no extra.”
That very same month, Shay, 37, provided her personal ideas on the topic. “I feel it’s true. I feel plenty of issues now as a result of I really feel like I simply noticed solely the great. And now, I’m seeing plenty of the dangerous,” the “Good as Gold” singer informed Madrigal on an episode of her “Scheananigans” podcast. “I don’t know. I kinda assume one thing possibly did occur with him and Billie again within the day. And so they simply made a pact, you already know, to not inform anybody. As a result of why would they?”
Lee, who has not publicly addressed the rumors, not too long ago raised eyebrows after she was noticed spending time with Sandoval amid the controversy. In response to the April sightings, Kristen Doute slammed Lee for not supporting Madix.
Peter Madrigal, Tom Sandoval, Billie Lee, Raquel Leviss. Shutterstock (4)
“As she cried at Ariana’s home days after Ari came upon … smh,” the Vanderpump Guidelines alum, 40, who dated Sandoval from 2008 to 2013, commented on an Instagram publish on the time.
Lee took to social media to defend herself, writing through Instagram that very same month, “Tom and Ariana are my household. They’ve been there for me through the years and I wouldn’t be the place I’m in the present day with out them. It saddens me that individuals are so fixated on choosing a facet. Each are human and are each hurting in their very own methods. There’s a world the place you possibly can help and be there for each events and that’s the world I select to reside in.”
She added: “There may be additionally no cause for this to proceed to be so divisive. Ariana is glad and Tom is absolutely working arduous on himself. I’ll proceed to like and help them unconditionally.”
Sandoval, in the meantime, admitted to dishonest on Madix with extra than simply Leviss through the season 10 finale. Rumors beforehand surfaced in 2015 a couple of previous fling with Annemarie Maldonado, who was known as Miami Lady on the present.
“Ariana has all the time recognized the reality about that,” he informed Shay.
Madix confirmed the revelation throughout an look on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen that aired straight after the finale. “They slept collectively, it was earlier than he and I have been unique,” she mentioned of Miami Lady. “I didn’t need folks to assume the worst in regards to the man I used to be planning to spend the remainder of my life with.”
Sandoval went on to say that “there was one different time” he was untrue. He famous it wasn’t a random particular person earlier than refusing to reply extra questions, saying, “It isn’t honest, I’m not going into it.”
The Florida native famous she had a guess in regards to the different thriller girl Sandoval referred to however that she was not within the Vanderpump Guidelines universe.
The three-part Vanderpump Guidelines reunion kicks off on Bravo Wednesday, Might 24, at 9 p.m. ET.
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With reporting by Sarah Jones
