Associates to foes? Ariana Madix and Raquel Leviss‘s friendship was robust till a scandal with Tom Sandoval ended it.

These Vanderpump Guidelines costars first appeared collectively in season 5 in 2016. By 2018, the ladies confirmed up on one another’s social media, and in 2021, their friendship was a fan favourite.

As Leviss’ relationship with James Kennedy blossomed that 12 months, Madix and Sandoval, who began courting in 2014, turned nearer to the couple.

Madix and Sandoval have been among the many Bravo stars who attended “Rachella” in spring 2021 when Kennedy requested Leviss to marry him. “My occasion individuals 😜☁️9,” Leviss captioned a gaggle picture from the engagement weekend on Instagram in Could 2021.

Nonetheless, seven months later, the previous Miss Sonoma County introduced on social media in December 2021 that she and the DJ had cut up after 5 years collectively, simply earlier than filming season 9 reunion particular of the present.

Leviss revealed that she relied on Madix and Sandoval within the weeks main as much as the breakup however didn’t inform the then-couple. She shared on the “Scheananigans” podcast in January 2022 that “there wasn’t one factor precisely” that led to the cut up, however that James by no means felt totally embraced by her mother and father.

Leviss stored up appearances in November 2021 by going to Disneyland with Kennedy, Madix, and Sandoval, however the TV character mentioned that she “needed to placed on an act for that, simply to make it possible for I used to be secure.”

For her half, Madix supported Leviss after the cut up, beginning the brand new 12 months collectively, and going out on a number of woman nights to Schwartz and Sandys after the restaurant opened within the fall of 2022.

Nonetheless, in March 2023, information broke that Leviss had an affair with Sandoval amid his romance with Madix, inflicting a falling out between the previous mates. (Leviss beforehand drew consideration by kissing costar Tom Schwartz shortly after his breakup from Katie Maloney in 2022.)

In March 2023, Us Weekly confirmed that Madix and Leviss ended their nine-year relationship amid the affair claims. Leviss deactivated her social media accounts, and Kennedy appeared to throw silent shade at his ex-fiancé. “Hope you all really feel as sick as I do,” the U.Ok. native wrote by way of Instagram with a screenshot of a headline associated to Leviss and Sandoval’s scandal. “This explains every part.”

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