By Brian Marks and Deirdre Simonds for Dailymail.com
07:13 on 16 May 2023, updated at 07:13 on 16 May 2023
Vanderpump Rules fans will finally understand how Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss had sex for the first time in the upcoming Season 10 finale of the buzzy reality series.
In a new clip from Wednesday’s episode obtained by People on Monday, Tom’s hurt ex Ariana Madix reveals to a shocked Scheana Shay and Katie Maloney that her 39-year-old ex first had sex with the her old friend Raquel Leviss, 28, in Raquel’s car. .
That moment came at the worst possible time, as the date happened while Ariana, 37, was grieving the death of her dog Charlotte.
In the clip, a pink-eyed Ariana was surrounded by her friends, including Scheana and Katie sitting around her on the floor, as she explained how she first learned about Tom and Raquel’s six-month affair.
“I went with Tom to Tom Tom because he had this party. I found a screen recording of them on FaceTime,” Ariana said of her ex Tom and Raquel. “It was literally from the night before. He was in [Tom] Schwartz’s.
Katie, who is Schwartz’s ex-wife, was shocked to learn that her former partner was somehow involved in the affair.
‘Was Schwartz doing this? What?’ he replied incredulously.
It was then that I called Raquel and started to like her, to make her like me, to tell me what the hell? When did this start?” Ariana continued. “She said, ‘After the girls trip.’ I said, “You mean right after Charlotte died?”
The clip then featured leaked black-and-white flashback footage from an earlier episode in which a tearful Ariana tells Lala Kent that she needs to leave soon because her beloved dog is “not coming back this time.”
Ariana went on to say that Raquel initially told her that she and Tom Sandoval had only kissed.
However, Ariana was able to extract even more details, and the truth, when she pressed her partner about the affair.
Later that night, when we were out here, I pressed Tom. And he said, well, they actually fucked in his car that night.
This revelation left Scheana open-mouthed in shock, while Katie was so second-hand embarrassed that she covered her face with her hoodie and fell backwards to the floor.
‘Shut up,’ he replied in disbelief.
“And he didn’t have a key to get in, so he had to ring the doorbell and I had to let him in,” Ariana continued, sharing that she had no idea what had happened at the time.
Katie was so dumbfounded she didn’t even know how to respond. “I’m…no,” she said.
As she continued to speak, Ariana noticed the signs of something wrong that she had missed at the time, as Tom seemed to have been upset with her right after their car sex escapade.
“My emotions were clearly all over the place and he was mad at me. Angry. At me!’ he said at the end of the clip.
Ariana previously aired her feelings for her ex-friend Raquel in a trailer for the upcoming Vanderpump Rules season 10 reunion.
After the former pageant queen admitted to being “super selfish” for sleeping with Ariana’s partner for nine years, Madix countered that “selfish doesn’t cover it.”
The TV personality, who wore a daring red dress with bold cutouts under the breasts and stomach, went on to list adjectives she felt were most appropriate to describe Leviss, such as “diabolical, demented and subhuman.”
During the episode there was no shortage of insults from Madix and the rest of the cast, who threw numerous insults at Sandoval and his lover.
Earlier in the preview, during a chat with Katie Maloney, Madix referred to her ex and on-again-off-again lover as “fucking rats” and said they shouldn’t expect “anything good for they”. ‘
Meanwhile, James Kennedy called Leviss and Sandoval “both” a bunch of “poop heads.”
The 31-year-old DJ, who was previously engaged to Leviss, said the Schwartz & Sandy owner was a “stab in the back” for hooking up with his ex-girlfriend.
“Get in my face again and I’ll take you down motherfucker,” Sandoval yelled at Kennedy, who proceeded to threaten to “get him up so quick.”
Kennedy then angrily yelled that Sandoval was “a worm with a mustache!”
During a break from filming with the entire cast, Sandoval told Leviss that they were made “like pathological liars.”
“I see, even though we know we’re not,” he replied.
After multiple confrontations and endless rebuke from his co-stars, Sandoval seemed to reach a boiling point.
‘I need a break from filming. Stop filming me!’ he can be heard calling a producer. “I don’t want a camera in my face!”
Later, host Andy Cohen asks Sandoval if he is “in love” with Leviss.
After a long pause, his co-star Lala Kent urged him to answer.
“Come on, it’s a very simple question,” she pressed. ‘Are you in love or not?’
Last month, Sandoval revealed that he and Leviss put the brakes on their sexual relationship after their affair was exposed in March.
The bar owner revealed they are taking “a bit of a break” while appearing on Howie Mandel’s Does Stuff podcast.
“We don’t put a label on it,” the reality star said.
When the 67-year-old comedian asked if they were still friends ‘with benefits’, Sandoval denied they were still romantically involved.
“Not right now,” the rocker, who is part of cover band Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras, told listeners after insisting he and the former pageant queen remain “good friends.”
As for how their relationship went from platonic to intimate, Sandoval opened up about his attraction to Leviss as he and Madix, 37, split after nearly a decade together.
“We were at my house and I’m locked out of my house and we’re talking and we kissed,” she recalled. ‘It was magnetic. We were getting closer and as we were talking, time was passing, and we are talking closer and closer and suddenly we are kissing. I felt something I hadn’t felt in a long time, like, emotionally.
He went on to explain how he and Madix had started living their own lives and the romance between them had become stale.
“We’d been together for nine years and obviously built a house and a business together and everything. We were a brand. And like a lot of relationships, it became more of a best friend/family/sometimes roommate situation “, explained.
The Missouri native said their relationship overall was “just lacking in intimacy” and “connection.”
He felt they were staying together to “keep the look”. [they] they were solid for his reality show and other business endeavors.
“We had each other’s backs, for sure, and that was nice. There was a safety and a stability,” he said of Madix.
After turning 40, she recalled thinking that her life “seemed very bleak” and began to think that her “best years were behind her”.
“I started to lose my optimism in life and my drive. I felt like I needed to make a change to feel alive again, to feel motivated, to feel optimistic again,” Sandoval confessed.
Before their affair, she said her “trust was broken” and that any sexual experience with him would be the equivalent of hooking up with “a 19-year-old” during the “second time” when she lost her ” game”.
‘I’m not saying it is [Ariana’s] because of guilt, we didn’t have that intimacy,” Sandoval stated.
After hearing his guest’s side, Mandel urged fans to have “empathy and compassion” for Sandoval, who previously said he felt “one of the most hated people in America” for betraying Madix.
“You have to be heard because the narrative is everyone’s but yours,” the America’s Got Talent judge told listeners. ‘I don’t understand the hate and the vitriol’.
While the father-of-three stated that he doesn’t “accept cheating on a partner,” he raised eyebrows to say that the amount of backlash Sandoval has received has been perplexing.
