Ariana Madix.Photo:Sara Mally/PEACOCK via Getty
Sara Mally/PEACOCK via Getty
Ariana Madixis keeping herawkward cohabitation arrangementswith exTom Sandovalunder lock and key.
Even though nearly six months have passed since theVanderpump Rulesstar, 38, and Sandoval, 40,abruptly endedwhen Madix discovered hismonths-long affairwith their friend and costarRaquel Leviss, the exes are still living in the Los Angeles area home they purchased back 2019.
On Friday episode of theScheananiganspodcast, Madix gave her longtime friend and costarScheana Shaysome insight on the stop-gap solution she’s landed on while she and Sandoval disentangle the complicated finances and community property from theirnine-year relationship.
Madix reflected on the growing stress around her and her ex’s different lifestyles, especially during the months she now knows Sandoval was in asecret relationshipwith Leviss, 28.
“I have to say, him staying out late all the time was always something that really made my anxiety super, super bad — never knowing when he was going to come in the door, never knowing how late he’s going to stay out," she told Shay, 38. “He’d say he’s going to be out until 12 and then its two or three and he’s still out. I couldn’t sleep.”
But now, having literally put up boundaries, Madix said, “I sleep a lot easier at night not giving a f— about when he’s coming in that door. … Yes, we’re in the same house but I don’t have to think, ‘He’s coming in my bedroom’ — because he’s not.”
She adds, “I sleep with my door locked, just in case.”
Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix.Todd Williamson/Bravo via Getty
Todd Williamson/Bravo via Getty
Madix also responded to Leviss’s implication onBethenny Frankel’sJust Bpodcast that her living situation with Sandoval should be seen as proof that theScandovalwas drummed up for drama onVanderpump Rules.
Calling the accusations “so incredibly hurtful,” she denied Leviss’s claims thatVPRwas “on the chopping block” after a few lackluster seasons.
Madix also made it clear that she made the choice to tell producers about Sandoval’s infidelity. This revelation came aftermonths of suspicionsandsecrecyabout Sandoval’s growing closeness to Leviss. (Producers have insisted they were unaware of the affair during filming for season 10, which wrapped in the fall of 2022 — months before cameras picked back up the day after Madix discovered anintimate videoof the former SUR waitress on her then-boyfriend’s phone.)
“I’m the one who made production aware when I found out,” said Madix, “like the next day actually I said something to them.”
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Pushing back against chatter than fans are “harassing my ex to get the f— out of the house he wrecked,” Madix explained she’s still in the five-bedroom Valley Village house with Sandoval because neither of them is “rolling in money right now.”
She noted, “I have a pretty decent little set up: I stay in my room or I go in the kitchen if I have to. My room is kind of like a little apartment right, I don’t see him, I don’t interact with him and I stay in my own little zone. I’m busy, I’ve got a lot going on.”
Noting that she’s also staying in one place to provide stability for her senior cat Kitty and her dogMya, Madix emphasized, “I am not f—ing around with my life, and I am not letting somebody else’s horrible decisions ruin my future. I’m taking care of myself.”
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Back in May, Madix confirmed during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenthat she is intent on offloading her home with Sandoval.
“My plan is to sell the house,” she told hostAndy Cohen, 55. “I want my money out of that house as quickly as possible and I want to move on.”
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Vanderpump Rulescan be streamed in full on Peacock.
source: people.com
