


Ariana Madix called out her cheating ex-Tom Sandoval for the “sad sack act” he attempted to put on during the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, which aired on Wednesday night (May 17).
While speaking to the The New York Times, Madix reflected on that lengthy finale scene where she confronted Sandoval about his affair with her close friend Raquel Leviss.
“When he sat down on that couch [during filming] and tried to give the sad sack act, I knew he was going to try to sell a bit,” she said. “I knew he was trying to be that person so that I would be the angry person; I could see what was happening in front of my face, and it was really frustrating.”
Madix added, “Honestly, when he started yelling at me, I felt a little bit satisfied that he was finally going to be the real him.”
Sandoval — who sobbed to BFF Tom Schwartz and later had a hyperventilating breakdown while speaking about the affair with Lisa Vanderpump — was much more stone-faced during his conversation with his (now former) girlfriend of nine years. And Bravo boss Andy Cohen was sure to ask her about that during her visit to Watch What Happens Live earlier this week.
“It didn’t strike me watching the episode because that’s how he was from the moment that I found out,” she said. “He was just screaming at me. We were in the backyard. He threw a beer can all the way across the backyard into the back wall.”
Madix continued, “He was more concerned even that night, in that moment [that I found out] in the back of Tom Tom about people hearing that we’re at Tom Tom than how I felt at all.”

The reality star even opened up to the Times about the show’s upcoming reunion, where the whole cast sat down with Cohen to hash out the drama.
“It was kind of a weird day because I feel like most of the time in any other reunion, we go through the whole season,” Madix said. “But in this reunion, it was really just everybody against one or against two [cast members]. We’ve never been united like that ever.”
Vanderpump Rules airs on Wednesday nights at 9/8c on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.