Raquel Leviss’ ex claims the “Vanderpump Rules” star initially wanted to hook up with Ariana Madix over Tom Sandoval.
“Shahs of Sunset” alum Nema Vand — who briefly dated the embattled reality star last year — claimed Leviss told him Sandoval and Madix were in an open relationship before her months-long affair with the former began.
“I was like, ‘Oh, would you ever do that like would you ever consider that?’ And she’s like, ‘No no no I would never.’
“She’s like, ‘I would hook up with Ariana though, I wouldn’t hook up with Tom,’” Vand claimed on Friday’s episode of Scheana Shay’s Dear Media podcast, “Scheananigans.”
Vand, 34, claimed that Sandoval, 40, and Leviss, 28, allegedly had this heart-to-heart conversation in a hot tub around Coachella in April 2022.
Vand added that one month later, he saw Leviss in New York City when she told him that she and Sandoval “were in the hot tub until like 5 a.m. – we watched the sunrise together.”
“Tom allegedly was like, ‘You know, we have an open thing, like, we can hook up with whoever we want,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, do they?’” Vand remembered Leviss saying.
Vand said that Leviss was “smart” though and told him she knew they weren’t in an open relationship and instead knew that Sandoval was “just planting the seed that you and I could hook up here, and it would totally be OK.”
“So she knew exactly what he was doing,” Vand added.
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Shay brought up Vand’s conversation with Leviss – which Sandoval vehemently denied – on the explosive “Vanderpump Rules” three-part reunion.
Both Sandoval and Leviss discussed their affair during the intense reunion, which concluded on Wednesday.
Leviss gave an emotional separate interview after the reunion where she confessed more details from their affair — including asking Sandoval if he and Madix would consider being in a throuple with her.
“I mean I even suggested maybe like, ‘What would Ariana think about like having me as an addition?’ And he was like, ‘No no no she would not be into that,’” Leviss claimed.
“I love Ariana as a person and then also I’m in love with Tom Sandoval, so yeah it didn’t seem that far-fetched of an idea, but it was not something in question. God he’s gonna kill me I just hate lying so much.”
Madix, for her part, denied ever being in an open relationship with Tom Sandoval.