Ariana Madix had Raquel Leviss’ back during a heated discussion with her “mean” co-stars — all while being unaware that the latter was having an affair with her boyfriend, Tom Sandoval.
On Wednesday’s episode of “Vanderpump Rules,” Katie Maloney, Kristina Kelly and Lala Kent were talking to Madix about Leviss’ behavior during their girls’ trip to Las Vegas when things suddenly blew up.
“[Leviss] needs to get her head checked,” Maloney said before Kent called Leviss a “f–king idiot.”
“Watching Raquel try to create a thought is mesmerizing. I don’t give a f–k what she thinks about me,” she added, referring to the moment Leviss dubbed her a “mistress.”
“No, that’s mean!” Madix – who was close friends with all of the women at the time – fired back before suggesting they “should talk” to Leviss, 28.
“It’s very difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that Raquel is fighting people and being crazy,” Madix said in a confessional. “I would think that Katie, Lala and Kristina gave the mean girl treatment to Raquel like they’ve given to other people in the past.”
While the women were discussing Las Vegas, Leviss walked in and asked what the problem was, to which Kent fired back that she can’t “put a thought together.”
Sandoval, 37, also got involved in the fight, confronting Kent and telling her, “Jesus, like, dude can you stop? I can’t unsee the bully that you f–king were to her for no reason to literally flex your f–king power.”
“You’re a bully, you’re f–king pathetic, I don’t need this energy in my life,” Leviss told Kent. “I’m finally learning my lesson with you. We will never be friends. You literally give off mistress bimbo vibes, and I cannot stand it.”
Despite Madix maintaining friendships with both sides of the friend group, that all stopped when she discovered Leviss and Sandoval were having a “full-on affair.”
Several sources told Page Six on March 3 that Madix broke up with her partner of nearly 10 years after seeing a sexually explicit video of Leviss on his phone on March 1.
Afterward, she learned that the two had been “communicating inappropriately” since roughly July 2022.
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Both Leviss and Sandoval later shared public apologies to Madix, but the latter seemingly hasn’t accepted either — as she told Sandoval to “die” and recently dissed Leviss.
Madix spoke out about the betrayal for the first time on March 16 and thanked those who have been supporting her.
“what doesn’t kill me better run,” she cryptically concluded in the post.
The three will seemingly come face-to-face for the first time when they film the Season 10 reunion — which Leviss will be attending in person — in Los Angeles on Thursday.
In the meantime, Bravo teased what’s to come before the reunion in the episodes filmed after “Scandoval” became public earlier this month.
“Vanderpump Rules” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
