Lisa Vanderpump took to Twitter on Wednesday, March 15 to push again on Teddi Mellencamp‘s claim that she paid Raquel Leviss to have an affair with Tom Sandoval! “Ok no …#PumpRestaurant will be open as normal…#fake-news,” she tweeted. “Oh and no I didn’t pay forged members to sleep collectively for rankings #pumprules they do this on their very own…#faux-news Have a wonderful day all people.”
Teddi had beforehand recommended it throughout an look on Melissa Gorga‘s podcast On Display. “She probably paid Raquel to do this,” she said at the time of the sprawling cheating scandal that has left the entire Vanderpump Rules cast in an uproar. For those catching up, Tom’s ex Ariana Madix allegedly discovered an intimate video of Raquel on Tom’s cellphone, successfully ending their longtime relationship earlier this month.
Ok no …#PumpRestaurant will probably be open as regular…#faux-news
Oh and no I didn’t pay forged members to sleep collectively for rankings #pumprules they do this on their very own…#faux-news
Have a wonderful day all people.— Lisa Vanderpump (@LisaVanderpump) March 15, 2023
Tom apologized for the affair through social media. “I want to first and foremost apologize to everyone I’ve hurt through this process,” he wrote through Instagram on March 8. “Most of all, I want to apologize to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that hurt somebody I love. No one deserves to feel that pain so traumatically and publicly.”
In brief order, the information exploded, with Raquel submitting a restraining order towards Ariana’s BFF Scheana Shay and accusing her of punching her within the face over the matter — a cost Scheana vehemently denies. “This case is a fabrication by a known liar and a cheat who has betrayed everyone close to her. Scheana never punched Raquel, period,” Scheana’s lawyer mentioned in a March 9 assertion to HollywoodLife through a publicist.
As for Lisa’s enterprise preparations with Tom, she addressed these in the course of the March 8 episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. When requested if she would purchase Tom’s share of TomTom bar because of the intense backlash over the scandal, the 62-year-old actuality icon admitted the dynamic had already modified.
“Well, you’re gonna see something in the reunion that the dynamic did change,” she mentioned. “We haven’t really discussed that. Umm, no. They’re my partners. I’m gonna stick by them, unless they need the money.”