Scheana Shay looked back on an “emotionally draining” and “uncomfortable” filming session she had with Tom Sandoval for Vanderpump Rules while appearing on Amazon Live on Monday.
While discussing the time she and Sandoval, 40, spent in “spiritual meditation healing” during their cast trip to Lake Tahoe, Scheana, 38, said that while she’s still siding with Ariana Madix, 38, who Sandoval cheated on with their co-star and friend, Raquel Leviss, 28, she has been impacted by the loss of her decade-long friendship with Sandoval.
“I don’t like what he did to Ariana obviously,” Scheana said on Amazon Live on July 24, via Page Six. “[But] him and I have had a really long friendship so everyone always [says], ‘Oh Scheana the flip-flopper, Scheana needs to have loyalty,’ and losing a friendship of that long has obviously been a struggle.”
While Scheana remains on “Team Ariana,” she and her castmates have been seen filming with Sandoval on numerous occasions. They most recently enjoyed a day of tubing with the performer and co-owner of TomTom in Lake Tahoe as Ariana was hiring staff for her and Katie Maloney‘s sandwich shop, Something About Her, in Los Angeles.
According to Scheana, she and Sandoval didn’t expect “to be paired together” during their Lake Tahoe getaway. But, after her husband, Brock Davies, chose to go golfing amid the activity, they were forced to come face-to-face.
“I [got] paired with Sandoval to do this spiritual meditation healing sort of thing,” she recalled. “It was very uncomfortable.”
And while she believes the encounter will make for “good TV,” it wasn’t a great experience for her.
“[It] was beyond the most emotionally draining day I have ever had in 11 seasons of Vanderpump Rules. My eyelashes hurt from how much I cried that day, my contacts were dry, I was congested, I felt weak in every way possible,” she described.
Vanderpump Rules season 11 is expected to begin airing on Bravo sometime later this year or early next year.