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Tom Sandoval cries over ‘perfect storm’ of Raquel Leviss affair

  2024-03-02 pagesixCaroline Blair46700
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Tom Sandoval broke down while reflecting on the backlash he received after his affair with Raquel Leviss was exposed.“I’

Tom Sandoval cries over ‘perfect storm’ of Raquel Leviss affair

Tom Sandoval broke down while reflecting on the backlash he received after his affair with Raquel Leviss was exposed.

“I’ve got a lot of thoughts going through my mind. I’ve had a hell of a past, like, three months,” the embattled “Vanderpump Rules” star said in a clip from Monday’s episode of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” obtained by Us Weekly.

Sandoval continued crying while telling former special forces officers Billy Billingham and Jason Fox about how he had a months-long dalliance with his co-star while still dating his longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix.

“It just was the perfect storm. Like, my publicist had never seen anything like it. F–king ‘reality star having an affair’ on CNN? It’s so stupid,” he said through tears.

“It became this Team Ariana thing. They sold $200,000 in merch in like two weeks.”

Tom Sandoval crying
Tom Sandoval cried over the “perfect storm” of his affair with Raquel Leviss. Bravo
Tom Sandoval posing in a military outfit
“My publicist had never seen anything like it,” Sandoval emotionally said. Pete Dadds/Fox
Tom Sandoval with Jason Fox on
However, Sandoval’s special forces officers didn’t seem to enjoy him playing the “victim.” Pete Dadds/Fox

The Bravolebrity also admitted he struggled with people he’s “been friends with for well over a decade” turning on him, referring to several of his co-stars and former friends.

“It was just so exhausting,” he emphasized.

However, neither of the decorated military members was having any of Sandoval’s confessions, as sighed and looked away from him.

Tom Sandoval and Jason Fox in
“The first thing you should be doing is owning it,” Fox said. Pete Dadds/Fox

“If you want to play the victim, it makes it look pathetic. You are not a victim. You created this,” Billingham told him.

Fox agreed and added that the “first thing you should be doing is owning it.”

Sandoval joined a slew of other celebrities – including JoJo Siwa, Tyler Cameron and Blac Chyna – to venture to the freezing Southern Alps in New Zealand to partake in several quasi-military tests earlier this year.

JoJo Siwa, Tom Sandoval and Bode Miller standing on
The “Vanderpump Rules” star joined the competition series to be “punished.” Pete Dadds/Fox

He previously shared that he had joined the intense Fox show because he wanted to “take a beating.”

“The whole country’s pissed off at me,” he said in the trailer.

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It’s unclear whether Sandoval and Leviss, 29, were still in communication at the time of filming, but fellow contestant Nick Viall claimed that Sandoval had brought photos of the former pageant queen to the set – despite the competitors not being allowed to do so.

“He snuck in pictures of him and Rachel,” the “Bachelor” alum, 43, said on his podcast, “The Viall Files,” in August, using Leviss’ real first name.

Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix, Raquel Leviss posing together
Sandoval faced extreme backlash for his affair with Leviss while he was still in a relationship with Ariana Madix. FS//AdMedia/Sipa USA
Tom Sandoval crying while talking to Lisa Vanderpump on
“The whole country’s pissed off at me,” he admitted. Bravo

“There seemed to be some real reluctance about [whether] the public would allow them to be together, but he came across — to me — as someone who had feelings and cared about Rachel.”

Leviss eventually ended communication with Sandoval while she was in a three-month stay at a mental health facility.

She has since quit “Pump Rules,” while Sandoval has filmed Season 11 of the show as well as Season 10 of “The Masked Singer” and Season 2 of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.”

(By/Caroline Blair)
 
 
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