There’s something about her. Ariana Madix is continuing to open up about her shocking split from Tom Sandoval amid his affair with Vanderpump Rules costar Raquel Leviss.The former SUR bartender, 37, delved deeper into the scandal during the Wednesday, May 24, episode of Alex Cooper‘s “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “To be very clear, I didn’t lose him,” she asserted. “He lost me.
But I think that I trusted in him so much … that I trusted his perspective on things.”She added: “I feel like we would have so many amazing times together, so then if there was a couple weeks that were not great or if I was, like, unsure about something [in the relationship], there was so much other stuff that was great. … It was almost, I think, hard to say, ‘Oh, this person’s not right for me,’ because I also had never been in a relationship that long before.”When asked on Wednesday whether she thought she ever “turned a blind eye” to any red flags, Madix conceded that she did. “But I think I was given a lot of assistance in doing that because I would bring things up and I would be shot down,” she claimed. “I was very much committed and I feel like I was doing my absolute best as a partner.
But I don’t think I would do anything differently, just because I feel like all I can do is my best — and whether my best was good enough or not for anyone, that’s what it was.”Us Weekly confirmed in March that Madix and Sandoval, 40, called it quits after nearly a decade of dating due to his infidelity with Leviss — who Madix refers to by her given name, “Rachel,” on the podcast.
Cameras picked back up on season 10 of the Bravo reality series — which previously wrapped production in fall 2022 — to capture the aftermath of the scandal for an emotional season
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