


The worm with a mustache has spoken again. Tom Sandoval has (unsurprisingly) defended the infuriating comment he made about his now-former girlfriend Ariana Madix on the final part of the Vanderpump Rules reunion.
During the episode — which aired on June 7 — Sandoval shaded his post-Raquel Leviss affair sex with Madix, whom he had dated for nearly a decade before she caught him cheating with her close friend earlier this year.
“Well, you know who he did sleep with after he and Raquel started sleeping together? Me,” Madix told the group, to which Sandoval sarcastically added, “She kept her T-shirt on, it was really hot.”
The comment left everyone in shock, with co-star Lala Kent slamming him as a “fucking dick” and moderator Andy Cohen visibly cringing. Even Tom Schwartz — his trusty sidekick and business partner — put his head down as he whispered, “Don’t say that.”
In light of the backlash, Sandoval recently told TMZ that he “never body-shamed” Madix — who has been open about her struggles with mental health and body image in the past.

“I don’t know if that was taken out of context. I think people added their own context to it,” he said during the paparazzi run-in. “It had nothing to do with her body or anything. It had to do with somebody being very, you know, unenthusiastic.”
Sandoval continued, “If somebody wanted to have sex with me and I, like, just unzipped my zipper and said, ‘Oh, hurry up. I gotta meet somebody for lunch.’ It was more about the unenthusiasm.”
Elsewhere in the short interview, the disgraced reality star claimed he had “no idea” when Leviss would be released from the mental health facility where she voluntarily admitted herself in April.
“I just don’t want to comment on anything with her,” he said. “I’ll let her tell her own story when she’s ready.”
Vanderpump Rules Season 10 — as well as the uncensored, extended versions of the reunion episodes — are currently streaming on Peacock.