US actuality TV star Ariana Madix has damaged her silence after her longtime boyfriend, Tom Sandoval, had an affair with their Vanderpump Rules co-star Raquel Leviss.
Madix spoke out for the primary time on Instagram, saying she’s been “devastated and broken” since discovering out the news of the dishonest scandal that has enveloped the fact present about servers at a hip LA restaurant.
But she thanked her buddies and followers for “the outpouring of love and support”.
“Hi, where to begin?” she wrote to her 1.4 million followers on the platform alongside a snap of herself, New York Post studies.
“I want to express my most sincere gratitude for the outpouring of love and support I have received from friends, family, and people I’ve never even met in the last two weeks.”
“When I have felt like I couldn’t even stand, you all have given me the strength to continue and seen me through my darkest hours,” she mentioned.
“To say I have been devastated and broken is an understatement. However, I know that I am not in this alone,” wrote Madix, who dated Sandoval for nearly a decade.
“So many of my closest friends are also grieving this loss right now and reeling from this betrayal on so many levels.”
“I am so f***ing lucky to have the best support system in the world and I hope I can repay every single person for the love you have shown me,” she went on.
“What doesn’t kill me better run,” she concluded her prolonged caption.
Her feedback come after Page Six confirmed on March 3 that Madix, 37, and Sandoval, 39, broke up as soon as she discovered he and Leviss, 28, had been “communicating inappropriately for months”.
A supply instructed us on the time that Madix was “blindsided” by the dalliance and had “no idea there were any issues” between her and Sandoval, who she had been courting since 2013.
Not solely that, however Madix and Leviss had grown shut in latest months, leaving Madix feeling “betrayed by her friend”.
Madix reportedly “found out” in regards to the pair’s “full-on affair” on March 1 whereas attending Sandoval’s cowl band’s present, the place he gushed about “respecting” his now ex-girlfriend.
When requested how their relationship had withstood the check of time, Sandoval mentioned he and Madix had been “really good about respecting each other”.
While they’ve had their “ups and downs,” Sandoval mentioned they each had “each other’s backs in a reasonable way”.
As news of the affair got here to mild, each Sandoval and Leviss issued social media statements, respectively.
“I want to apologise to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that hurt somebody I love,” Sandoval wrote final week on Instagram.
“No one deserves to feel that pain so traumatically and publicly. I can only imagine how devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone around us.
“I feel really horrible about that,” he continued. “My biggest regret is that I dishonoured Ariana. I never meant to disappoint so many people, including our loving families and friends … I owed Ariana better.”
For her half, Leviss issued a prolonged assertion wherein she blamed the affair on her “addiction” to like and vowed to do higher from right here on out.
“I am reflecting on my choices, speaking to a counsellor and I am learning things about myself such as my patterns of co-dependency and addiction to being and feeling loved,” she wrote.
“I have sought emotional validation through intimate connections that are not healthy without regard for my own wellbeing, sometimes negatively affecting others and often prioritising the intimate connection over my friendships.”
While that is the primary time Madix has addressed the affair, her brother, Jeremy Madix, was fast to defend her – and slam Sandoval – on social media simply hours after the news broke.
On solid member James Kennedy’s Instagram submit in regards to the matter, Jeremy referred to as Sandoval a “try-hard having a midlife crisis with his cringey band” earlier than taking photographs at Leviss, who he mentioned “has faked her way to the top”.
Amid the controversy, Sandoval publicly apologised to Madix on March 8, writing partly on Instagram that he “made mistakes” and “reckless decisions that hurt somebody” he beloved.
“No one deserves to feel that pain so traumatically and publicly,” he mentioned. “I can only imagine how devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone around us. I feel really horrible about that.”
Leviss additionally mentioned: “There is no excuse. I am not a victim, and I must own my actions, and I deeply regret hurting Ariana.”
This story was revealed by New York Post and reproduced with permission
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