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Tom Schwartzjust answered the million-dollar question — and it’s not looking great for hisVanderpump RulescostarsTom SandovalandRaquel Leviss.
On Wednesday night’sWatch What Happens Live, hostAndy Cohenasked Schwartz if he thinks Sandoval and Leviss’s relationship will “make it” after the dust settles on the"Scandoval"that ignited the exposure of their months-long affair and theabrupt endto Sandoval’snine-year relationshipwith fellowVPRstarAriana Madix.
“I’ve actually thought about this a lot,” said Schwartz, 40. “I think it’ll be a miracle if they make it.”
“I think,oh man,” he took a deep breath, “their relationship is, you know, I know they care so much about each other but, like, even in the short time they’ve been in love — or whatever you want to call it — it’s become toxic, and I don’t know if it’s sustainable.”
He noted, “It’s already toxic as it is, and then you add in, you know,the entire nation thinking,You guys are scumbags.I think it’s too much.”
On a lighter note, he added, “But we’ll see if love prevails, we’ll see.”
At this, Schwartz’s fellowWWHLguestJohn Owen Lowe— the son ofRob Lowewho co-createdNetflix’sUnstablewith his dad — involuntarily burst into laughter.
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“I learned in August, in late August about the affair, the one-night stand — allegedly,” he said, later adding that “there was a lot of grey area there” as to how deep the infidelity ran.
And for any brief periods when Sandoval, 40, and Leviss, 28, might not have physically been cheating, “it became, like, an emotional affair — which is still inappropriate,” said Schwartz.
Cohen, 54, then pressed, pointing out that at theVanderpump Rulesreunion filminglate last month, Schwartz claimed he didn’t know about the affair until early this year.
Schwartz explained, “In January, Tom came to me … and he told me that he was in love with Raquel. I was flabbergasted.”
He also said: “For the record, [at this time] I’m being fed a narrative that he has broken up with Ariana, or attempted to multiple times — many, many times. And he’s not happy, they’re not healthy, they’re not intimate, blah blah blah.”
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All the while, Schwartz said Sandoval had become “flagrant — he was brazen” about the “open secret” of his affair with Leviss.
“I’m not morally bankrupt,” Schwartz tentatively defended himself after Lowe, 28, wondered whether the Schwartz & Sandy’s co-owner had been “too complacent” in the knowledge of his business partner’s cheating. “I was consumed in my own little world. And maybe I should have been more proactive about it. In my defense, I did tell Tom exactly what he needed to do. He agreed, and then he didn’t do it.”
And even though he doesn’t have high hopes for the couple, whorefuse to put a label on their relationship statusfor now, he sounded pretty certain that Sandoval remains passionate about the taboo connection that blew up his world.
“He’s addicted. It’s an infatuation of all infatuations. Raquel is Tom’s heroin,” he said. “Man, he got lost in the sauce.”
“Is he still lost in the sauce?” asked Cohen, 54.
Schwartz affirmed, “I think he is.”
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source: people.com
