An open secret? Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss reportedly took a couple’s trip to his hometown months before their affair made headlines.
Sandoval, 40, and Leviss, 28, had been seen posing in entrance of the Apotheosis of St. Louis in a snap taken in December 2022, based on TMZ. The outlet alleged that the go to to Missouri didn’t go well when Sandoval’s family declined to satisfy Leviss.
Despite the fact that the TomTom co-owner claimed he was planning to name it quits with long-term girlfriend Ariana Madix, his family members weren’t thrilled that he brought Leviss.
Three months after Sandoval and Leviss’ journey to Missouri, Us Weekly confirmed his cut up from Madix, 37, as a result of his infidelity. “They had been having issues for some time,” a supply advised Us in March, noting that things “only came to a breaking point” when the Florida native found out that her then-boyfriend was untrue with Leviss.
The bar proprietor broke his silence on his private life by defending his businesses when Vanderpump Rules followers shared unfavourable feedback in regards to the institutions. He later issued a separate statement apologizing to Madix.
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“I need to in the beginning apologize to everybody I’ve damage via this course of. Most of all, I need to apologize to Ariana,” he wrote through Instagram. “I made errors, I used to be egocentric and made reckless choices that damage any person I like. Nobody deserves to really feel that ache so traumatically and publicly.”
Extra just lately, he admitted to Howie Mandel that he kissed Leviss for the first time throughout summer time 2022. “We simply kissed. It was magnetic,” he mentioned throughout the Tuesday, April 11, episode of the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast. “I felt one thing that I hadn’t felt in so lengthy emotionally.”
In the meantime, Leviss took to social media to address where she and Madix stand now. “I need to apologize for my actions and my selections foremost to Ariana, and to my pals and the followers so invested in {our relationships},” she wrote through Instagram that very same month. “There isn’t any excuse, I’m not a sufferer and I need to personal my actions and I deeply remorse hurting Ariana.”
Sandoval just lately admitted that he had regrets about how his connection with Leviss got here to mild. “Hindsight’s at all times 20/20,” the fact star advised TMZ on March 27. “Like, should you look again at a state of affairs, you consider all of the issues you need to have, would have achieved higher.”
The Tom Sandoval and the Most Extras band member’s pal Tom Schwartz additionally provided extra perception into when he found out about the affair. “I discovered in regards to the affair in August. The one-night stand was in August after which it grew to become, from my standpoint, it grew to become an emotional affair,” Schwartz, 40, who connected with Leviss in August 2022 after his cut up from Katie Maloney, mentioned on Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen on Wednesday, April 5. “Which continues to be inappropriate, however I didn’t assume it was linear. [Then] in January, he got here to me and advised me that he was in love with Raquel.”
The Minnesota native continued: “He’s not realizing the unfavourable affect this has had on his different ventures. Companies, bars, the band. … He’s addicted. It’s an infatuation of all infatuations. … Raquel is Tom’s heroin.”
In accordance with Schwartz, he doesn’t expect Sandoval and Leviss to go the distance.
“I feel it’ll be a miracle in the event that they make it,” he concluded. “Their relationship is, you realize, I do know they care a lot about one another however, like, even within the quick time that they’ve been ‘in love’ or no matter you need to name it, it’s turn out to be poisonous. And I simply I don’t know if it’s sustainable. It’s already poisonous as it’s and then you definately add in, you realize, all the nation pondering you guys are scumbags. I feel it’s an excessive amount of, however we’ll see if love prevails.”
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Us Weekly reached out to Sandoval’s rep for remark.
