Tom Sandoval Blames Lack of Sexual ‘Intimacy’ for Ariana Madix Split: Bombshells From His Howie Mandel Interview
usmagazine.comHis side of the story. Tom Sandoval opened up about his affair with Raquel Leviss and subsequent split from Ariana Madix during a surprise interview with Howie Mandel.“This whole situation, obviously I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life,” the Schwartz & Sandy’s cofounder, 40, said during the Tuesday, April 11, episode of the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. “It’s just crazy how big this story has gotten.”During the bombshell interview — which was seemingly taped on Thursday, April 6 — Sandoval claimed that he and Madix, 37, had been headed for a breakup for months before his affair with Leviss, 28, came to light.“Like many relationships, it felt like it became more of like a best friends, family [thing] — sometimes roommates,” the Missouri native told Mandel, 67. “There were a lot of ways where the relationship was just lacking the intimacy, the connection.
We would travel more by ourselves than we would together. I would go to weddings by myself.”Sandoval went on to claim that the duo’s sex life was not in good shape, adding that the pair started couples therapy in late 2022.
The reality star said that he and Madix started their sessions after his first kiss with Leviss, which he claimed happened in early August 2022.“I love Ariana.
I still love Ariana and I care about her very much so, but we for a while had been sort of having our own lives,” the Bravo personality said. “We were together for nine years.
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