Tom Sandoval claimed that former Vanderpump Guidelines costar Raquel Leviss wasn’t “just some hot girl” to him throughout their affair.
“I fought so hard for Rachel,” Sandoval, 40, mentioned in the course of the Thursday, December 7, episode of “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast, calling Leviss, 29, by her start title. “I stopped drinking. I stopped smoking cigarettes because she went away to a facility.”
Us Weekly confirmed in March that Ariana Madix and Sandoval cut up after 9 years collectively following information that Sandoval had cheated with costar Leviss. Because the affair continued to make headlines, Leviss checked right into a psychological well being facility in April, which Sandoval mentioned on Thursday was one thing he tried to assist her by means of.
“I’m like, ‘She can’t drink, she can’t smoke. I’m gonna quit,’” he mentioned on the podcast. “I haven’t gone this long without drinking since I was 16. It’s been eight months. I stopped for her. I was there in any way that she needed me.”
Sandoval confessed that “of course” he nonetheless misses Leviss after their romance fizzled out earlier this 12 months. “We were best friends. It’s heartbreaking to go through,” he mentioned. “I was fully in love with her.”
The Tom Tom cofounder quipped: “She’s not just some hot girl. I was a model for 15 years, it’s deeper than that. It’s more than that.”
Sandoval famous that he “would have loved to go away to a mental health facility” like Leviss did and reboot, however he claimed he had prior work engagements he needed to deal with.
Wanting again, Sandoval mentioned he “doesn’t know” whether or not Leviss beloved him or simply wished fame. He mentioned, “I hope she did [love me],” confessing he felt harm that she “just shooed me away” after the scandal broke.
Us beforehand reported in September that Leviss and Sandoval had “not spoken” in months. A supply solely advised Us on the time that there had been “zero contact” between the pair “since sometime in June.” The insider claimed to Us that Leviss “made the decision that it was healthier to cut Tom out of her life completely” whereas she was in remedy, regardless of Sandoval’s “attempts of writing and calling.”
Regardless of all of the trauma he’s skilled because the affair, Sandoval alleged on Thursday that his and Leviss’ hookup was “definitely not” for the “thrill” of it. “You get caught up. You get lost in your emotions,” he added. “Love makes you do really stupid things. Throw logic out the window and that’s exactly what happened.”
Leviss, for her half, selected to not return to Pump Guidelines after the scandal performed out on season 10 of the Bravo sequence. She has since introduced that she is going to inform her aspect of the story on her upcoming “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast, which premieres on January 8, 2024.
Madix, in the meantime, discovered love once more with boyfriend Daniel Wai. She revealed on Wednesday, December 6, that she was just lately forged as Roxie Hart within the Broadway rendition of Chicago after competing on season 32 of Dancing With the Stars.