Amid the fallout of Scandoval, many fans have questioned what Tom Schwartz knew about his BFF Tom Sandoval’s secret romance with Raquel Leviss — and whether their friendship (and businesses) can survive the scandal.While Katie Maloney told Nick Viall that she’s not “certain” about the timeline of when her ex-husband found out about the months-long affair, she warned him to distance himself from Sandoval.“I think the main thing with Tom and Tom that we’ve seen in [the] past is that Schwartz is very much subservient to Tom in a lot of ways.
He lets Tom kind of dominate him and the friendship and the business. And because Schwartz is kind of, like, wants to just go with the flow and doesn’t want to be confrontational about things had the roles been reversed — let’s say in this whole situation with the Scandoval — I told him that, you know, ‘I think Tom would throw you under the bus and save himself,’” Katie, 36, said on the Tuesday, April 4, episode of the “Viall Files” podcast. “’He would drown you if the ship was sinking and save [himself].
He would hop in a lifeboat.’ So I think as much as you want to say, ‘That isn’t true or you don’t think that would happen,’ like, think about it because I think that would.”Sandoval has come under fire for apologizing to Schwartz and asking fans not to take out his actions on their restaurants TomTom and Schwartz & Sandy’s before he publicly addressed then-girlfriend Ariana Madix. (Sandoval and Madix’s nine-year relationship ended due to his cheating.)“I told [Schwartz], I’m like, ‘Now that you’ve really hitched your wagon to this person, and you’re in business with this person, and the fact that they could go out into the world, and be so careless and not think about the ramifications
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