Ariana Madix 'Call Her Daddy' Podcast: Scandoval Quotes

Telling her side. Ariana Madix broke down Scandoval from the start during a bombshell appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. The Vanderpump Rules star slammed her ex-boyfriend of nine years, Tom Sandoval, and Raquel Leviss for their months-long affair while offering an inside look at the cheating scandal from her point of view.

At one point, Ariana, 37, even claimed that Tom, 40, and Raquel, 28, had hooked up while she was asleep in the next room.

“They had sex in my guest room while I was sleeping in my own bed that he and I went to bed in together, and then, he left the bed and went to the guest room and f—ked her,” the Florida native claimed, referring to the Valley Village, California home that Tom and Ariana purchased together in 2019.

News of the affair between Raquel and Tom broke on March 3, after Ariana had discovered a video of her then-boyfriend and longtime friend on FaceTime together. The Something About Her restaurant owner said she was “screaming, crying, throwing up” while fighting with Tom after the affair had been revealed. At the time, Life & Style confirmed that the TomTom cofounder and Ariana had split after nine years together because of his secret relationship with Raquel, which had been going on for seven months.

“After guys’ night [in August 2022], nothing happened then. But the next day, Raquel and I went to The Abbey and we were taking some shots and we just kissed. I felt something in that moment that I hadn’t felt in a very long time,” Tom revealed during the Vanderpump Rules season 10 finale, which aired in May 2023. “After that night, nothing happened until Life Is Beautiful [in September 2022]. Ariana never asked. All she would have to do was follow me and see that [I was lying about where I was going].”

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Ariana, for her part, admitted on “Call Her Daddy” that she might have “turned a blind eye” to what was going on between Tom and Raquel.

“I trusted in him so much … that I trusted his perspective on things, and I think I was caught up,” the Fancy AF Cocktails author explained. “I’m a smart girl and I could have dug deeper, but I didn’t.”

Scroll through the gallery for Ariana’s bombshell “Call Her Daddy” quotes.

The Truth About Tom’s Multiple Breakup Attempts

After news of his cheating scandal broke, Tom claimed that he had attempted to breakup with Ariana multiple times. She said that this is untrue, recalling one “hours-long” conversation the former couple had this past February.

“I said, ‘If we break up, I’m probably going to quit the show, I will probably leave Los Angeles, I will probably deactivate my Instagram.’ And he found that to be very offensive,” Ariana explained, noting that there was never any indication that “I was going to kill myself” if there was a breakup. “I was saying that this life will be over for me, because I’ll go do something else… I’m not talking about physically harming myself.”

That being said, they had an “intense” couples therapy session (amid the affair) in which Ariana thought things were ending between herself and Tom. “At the end of the session [the therapist] was like, ‘OK, so, is this a break-up?’ And he was like, ‘No,'” she shared.

Elsewhere in the interview, Ariana revealed that the couples therapist said the ongoing issues between herself and Tom were a “him problem.”

Where She and Raquel Stand Now

“I mean, I don’t know her,” Ariana said. “I realize now I never knew her, but I certainly don’t know her now and I don’t know anyone who does know her. It’s hard to say, but based on what I’ve seen, [she’s] lost and empty. … I don’t really know what’s going on.”

Ariana has received a text from Raquel following the scandal, and the two saw each other while filming the season 10 reunion.

“[It] was very, like, ‘I just don’t know what to say except that I’m sorry,'” the former SUR employee shared. “And then at the reunion, it was very subpar.”

His Multiple Affairs

During the VPR season 10 finale, Tom admitted to cheating on Ariana one other time throughout their relationship. However, Ariana thinks there were more instances, but she doesn’t have an exact number.

“There was one [time] years and years ago that I got a DM that was like, ‘Tom hooked up with my friend in San Diego,’ and I brought it up over and over and over and over again,” she recalled. “It was like, ‘Absolutely not.’ That now, I’m like, ‘I think that was a yes.'”

Would They Still Be Together?

Even if there was no cheating scandal, Ariana doesn’t think she and Tom would still be together.

“I would say no, given what I know about this plan,” she shared. “The plan was to break up with me without any sort of mention of an affair or cheating, whether that was pre-reunion or not or pre-going to film Winter House or not. And then they would just start dating.”