Us Weekly Investigates: Tom Sandoval’s excuses for cheating.In light of the Vanderpump Rules star’s controversial interview with Howie Mandel — in which he detailed his various reasons for having an affair with Raquel Leviss amid his relationship with Ariana Madix – Us is comparing how Sandoval justified being unfaithful during his romance with Kristen Doute.When fans met Sandoval on the season premiere of the Bravo show in 2013, he had been dating Doute for several years.
During season 2, their relationship fell apart amid mutual admissions of infidelity. In the 2014 premiere, he confessed to cheating on Doute with a bottle service girl in Las Vegas while traveling for a modeling job.“[We] hadn’t had sex in three months,” Sandoval told Doute when she confronted him. “You also cringed every time I hugged you.”At the reunion, he added: “I knew something was going on because literally I couldn’t even give Kristen a hug or kiss her.
Her shoulders would go up and she treated me like I was a creeper for months.”When speaking about his affair with Leviss — which began during summer 2022 — the lack of intimacy excuse was used again.“Like many relationships, it felt like it became more of, like, a best friends, family [thing] — sometimes roommates.
There were a lot of ways where the relationship was just lacking the intimacy, the connection,” he said on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast on April 11. “[Any] sexual experience with me would be maybe a 19-year-old [on] his second time.
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