- Tom Sandoval gave his first interview since "Scandoval" broke to Howie Mandel.
- Lala Kent said Sadoval was "lying" during the interview and that it was "odd."
"Vanderpump Rules" star Lala Kent spoke out in her Instagram Stories on Tuesday night about Tom Sandoval's first interview since it was revealed that he cheated on his partner Ariana Madix with their costar Raquel Leviss.
In the videos, viewed by Insider and captured by Page Six, Kent said that Sandoval's choice to give his first interview since the scandal broke to Howie Mandel was "strange." She also said he was "lying" during the conversation.
News that Sandoval allegedly cheated on Madix after nine years together broke in March 2023. The former couple met while working for the reality star and restauranteur Lisa Vanderpump. Sandoval was an original cast member of "Vanderpump Rules," the hit Bravo reality show that follows Vanderpump's employees at SUR Restaurant & Lounge. Madix joined the cast in season two and began working as a bartender alongside Sandoval.
As reported by People, they made their relationship Instagram official in February 2014 and have been chronicling it on the show ever since. They never married, but in 2019 they purchased a home together in Los Angeles for $2 million. The two also published a cocktail book, "Fancy Af Cocktails: Drink Recipes from a Couple of Professional Drinkers," that same year.
On Tuesday's episode of the "Howie Mandel Does Stuff" podcast with Mandel and his daughter Jackelyn Shultz, Sandoval spoke at length about Madix and his relationship with Leviss for the first time since making headlines for "Scandoval."
During the hour-long conversation, Sandoval said that he and Madix have been living "our own lives" for "a while" before news of the affair broke. He said they were keeping their life "private" because as reality stars, details of their personal lives were never safe around their co-stars. He said he began to feel "trapped" in the relationship as he approached 40.
Sandoval said that he broke up with Madix weeks before the news broke that he was seeing Leviss, but she was "in denial" about it. He said that she told him that if he broke up with her, "you will effectively be ending my life."
"I saw the smallest clip...of Sandoval lying some more and I want to go off," Kent said in a video she was recording while on a plane to New York. In later clips, she called it "strange" that Sandoval chose to talk to Mandel because "he hasn't even seen our show."
Similarly, Bravo executive and host Andy Cohen said on his show "Watch What Happens Live" that Mandel "didn't do his homework" on the situation before the interview. On his radio show on Wednesday, Cohen said he was "annoyed" Sandoval did the interview and that Mandel and Sandoval didn't do themselves "any favors" in the conversation.
"Vanderpump Rules" airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Bravo.