Tom Sandoval Throws a Hissy Fit on Nick Viall’s Podcast, Says He’ll Never ‘Cheat That Way’ Again

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | February 2, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | February 2, 2024 |

We all know Tom Sandoval has been going through it in the public eye lately, and with season 11 of Vanderpump Rules now airing, making the breakdown of his nearly decade-long relationship accessible for a viewing audience all over again, it’s expected that he’d have some feelings. Tom has his own podcast where he presumably speaks on those feelings in his typical slimy fashion, but I refuse to listen to it for obvious reasons. Lucky for me, Nick Viall had him on his podcast—where he has made a name for himself as the guy who hosts difficult conversations with reality TV people—and pushed through the slime to reveal the rotten core underneath.

Sandoval arrived late to the podcast recording and commenced to whine when Viall and co-star Tom Schwartz cornered him about how he still talks about Scandoval as if he’s unremorseful.

“I regret it hardcore, I really do, and I can’t do anything about it,” he said, but Viall interrupted him to say, “You could learn from it,” and he agreed.

“I don’t know, dude. I’m just trying to be a better person, I swear to God, like, I really am. Like, I don’t know what to say. What have I learned? What have I learned?! To not ever do that again. To not ever be in a nine-year fucking relationship and end it that way. To not ever, like, cheat that way. Like, dude, I’m never gonna do that. That’s never gonna happen.”

Viall, naturally, asked, “What do you mean ‘cheat that way’? When you say ‘cheat that way,’ it implies that you might cheat a different way.”

“To have an affair, to have an affair!” Sandoval responded. He took his usual tack of saying he didn’t want to criticize his ex, Ariana Madix, before making her sound like the biggest bitch alive, and then said he’d “fucked up” a bunch of times, but we should feel bad for him because “I was a slave to my emotions.”

“I love Ariana. I do, I really care about her. But like, this person, fucking—throughout our relationship—talked to me like I was down here, all the fucking time … just getting belittled, belittled, belittled, all the fucking time … And I hate to say it, but like, I acted out because I had such low self-worth. And somebody like Raquel, somebody who’s in her 20s, like, doing essentially the fucking whipped cream fucking bikini thing like in Varsity Blues … I was like, ‘Wow, really? Oh my God, like, I’m attractive to somebody?” he erupted.

“This might be construed as you saying ‘she made me cheat,’” Schwartz said.

“You’re talking about somebody—she wouldn’t have sex with me for like, fucking, a year!” Sandoval cried, referring to Madix, then whined about how much he loved her again and how he “instigated the happiness in the relationship” and didn’t just break up with her because it was hard. Then he said that because she “hit the breakup lottery” with her recent success following the scandal, she should throw him a bone and let him keep the house they shared. He also said her continuing bitterness over the breakup is “not a good look.”

Viall kept trying to change the subject, but Sandoval kept bringing it back to himself. He has clearly learned nothing if he’s still going on podcasts crying about how the woman he claimed to love for nine years wouldn’t have sex with him so he had sex with a 20-something, bikini-clad Varsity Blues character instead (remember, this is a 40-year-old man). I really, really, didn’t like this guy could get any grosser, but, silly me!