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Tom Sandoval speaks out on “grooming” claims on the part one of the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion per Us Weekly. Joining Sandoval on the couch was his season 11 reality costars Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, James Kennedy, Tom Schwartz, Scheana Shay, Lisa Vanderpump and ex-girlfriend Ariana Madix.
Andy Cohen wasted no time in hitting Sandoval with the hard questions. Cohen brought up the “grooming” allegations in relation to Kent's comment's earlier in the season
“She used the word ‘groomed’ which is beyond f——– slander considering she is not underage,” Sandoval explained to Cohen. “That implies pedophilia.”
“Lala, your entire life was a mystery and off-limits for years and years and we respected that,” Sandoval told Kent earlier in the season. “It feels like things are only allowed to be talked about if you are OK with them.”
“I know what triggered me was when she said [during the final part of the season 10 reunion], ‘If I don’t fall in line with Sandoval then I have nobody.’ You isolate. You groom. You lie,” Lala told Sandoval. “I do not want to know you. You are scary.”
Kent's assumptions about his relationship with Leviss took him over the edge. “Lala, you don’t know me. Don’t sit there and accuse me of grooming. You do not know me.”
During the reunion, Kent responded to Sandoval: “It is taking someone who is younger than you and more impressionable than you and someone who is at a higher level of power than the other person.”
“I was very impressionable when she took all her clothes off and jumped in my f——– pool,” he said back to Kent about his former relationship with Rachel Leviss.
“I am a projector. And I still have to catch myself,” she responded. “Only Raquel and Tom know what was going on. He is going to see it differently. I tend to lean toward the chick a little more.”
Rachel Leviss Is Suing Tom Sandoval & Ariana Madix For Alleged ‘Revenge Porn'
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They also spoke about the revenge porn lawsuit that Leviss filed against Sandoval and Madix.
Sandoval said: I’ve witnessed it. She was just as conniving if not more so. She was ruthless in her pursuit of pleasure. She was not a victim in this.”
Leviss is suing former Vanderpump Rules costars Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix over alleged “revenge porn.” Leviss claims that while she was in a relationship with Sandoval (concurrently while he was still dating Madix), he filmed sexually explicit videos “without her knowledge or consent,” according to legal documents obtained by People.
Madix is roped into the lawsuit as Leviss claims that the videos were “distributed, disseminated, and discussed publicly by a scorned woman [Madix] seeking vengeance” after learning of she and Sandoval's relationship. Madix and Sandoval were dating for nine years until their breakup in 2023 after learning of his affair with Leviss.
“Ariana did not send that video to anyone. She wasn’t distributing it. It is so ridiculous that she is putting through this s—- again,” Shay said and Madix added, “I have never done anything to her.”
Sandoval chimed in again defending Madix: “It is one thing for her to come after me but to come after Ariana, I am questioning if she has a f—— soul,” he shared.
