Scheana Shay claims that she was in Tom Sandoval’s hotel suite during BravoCon 2023 to defend Ariana Madix.
“I don’t like some of the things I heard him saying about Ariana on his podcast and in [the] press,” the “Vanderpump Rules” star exclusively told Pvnew Saturday at the Las Vegas convention.
The “Good as Gold” singer emphasized that the reason she was in her “VPR” co-star’s hotel room Friday night was to urge Sandoval to “let [Madix] heal” and to stop bringing up their past relationship.
Of course, Shay was referencing Sandoval’s highly publicized cheating scandal that broke in March.
As previously reported, the Most Extras frontman was caught cheating on Madix, whom he had been dating for nearly 10 years, with her former bestie Raquel Leviss.
Speaking with Pvnew, Shay recalled how she told Sandoval to stop “bringing up any issues” that he and Madix “had in their relationship.”
“We don’t need to keep talking about that. It’s in the past,” Shay said, adding, “We’ve filmed the whole season. We have a reunion. But let her heal and just stop.”
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Despite being enemy No. 1 for quite some time after his infidelity came to light, some of Sandoval’s co-stars have seemingly begun to express empathy for the TomTom co-owner.
In the newly released teaser for Season 11, Shay is seen hugging Sandoval, which she told us was “slightly misleading.”
“Let me tell you this. It took a whole season and a lot of conversations to even have that moment. So that’s all misleading,” Shay, 38, said.
“There was a lot that was said, and I’ve not been easy on him. I’ve been very stern with how I feel and what I disagree with,” she continued, adding that she was “still having those conversations” when she visited Sandoval’s hotel suite Friday night.
While Shay has seemingly gone from having explosive yelling matches with Sandoval, 40, to hugging it out, Madix, 38, did not seem too surprised to learn that Shay was in Sandoval’s hotel suite during the convention.
During the “Battle of the Sexes” panel Saturday night, “VPR” star James Kennedy accused Lala Kent of being the one in Sandoval’s hotel suite before the crowd — and Madix — murmured that it was actually Shay.
Despite defending Sandoval when a fan at the convention told him to “fall off the Earth,” Kent, 33, insisted that Kennedy, 31, was spewing “lies.”
Even Madix got a kick out of Kent and Kennedy’s back-and-forth, leaning towards Kent and mouthing “I love you” as she laughed.
