Ariana Explains Why She Didn’t Defend Scheana Over *That* Controversial Photo: “It’s a Backfire”

When some of the Vanderpump Rulescast went on a trip to Lake Tahoe last year,a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/scheana-shay-defends-tom-sandoval-photo-lake-tahoe-moment-ariana-reacts" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/scheana-shay-defends-tom-sandoval-photo-lake-tahoe-moment-ariana-reacts" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/scheana-shay-defends-tom-sandoval-photo-lake-tahoe-moment-ariana-reacts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" a group photo they took with a fan quickly went viral/a due to a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/scheana-marie" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Scheana Shay/astanding next to a data-entity-href="/node/925131" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Tom Sandoval" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="853c891b-c653-4e34-9a06-4577ba126145" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/tom-sandoval" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Tom Sandoval"Tom Sandoval/ashortly after his a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/tom-sandoval-ariana-madix-relationship-history-vanderpump-rules" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/tom-sandoval-ariana-madix-relationship-history-vanderpump-rules" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/tom-sandoval-ariana-madix-relationship-history-vanderpump-rules" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"tumultuous split/a froma href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/ariana-madix" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Ariana Madix/a./p pNow, viewers are getting to see the backstory of that photo and the tense conversations surrounding it. On Season 11, Episode 7, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/lala-kent" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lala Kent/ashared with Ariana that"the internet was ripping [Scheana] apart" for the photo and declared,"You didn't come to her defense at all."/p pAlthough Ariana initially defended her choice to stay silent on the matter, explaining, "I'm not gonna post and have my sh-t reposted as headlines and stuff," after her conversation with Lala, she did later post to Instagram in defense of Scheana, calling her an "amazing friend."/p h2Ariana Madix explains why she didn't defend Scheana Shay after emthat/em group photo with Tom/h2 pIn the a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules-after-show" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules-after-show" href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules-after-show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emVanderpump Rules Season 11 After Show/em/a video above, Scheana, Ariana, Lala, anda href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/katie-maloney" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Katie Maloney/a, as well as ema data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Valley/a/em cast members a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/kristen-doute" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/people/kristen-doute" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/kristen-doute" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Kristen Doute/aand a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/brittany-cartwright" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/people/brittany-cartwright" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/brittany-cartwright" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Brittany Cartwright/a, discuss the photo, and Ariana offers more details on why she was initially hesitant to put out a statement right away./p pstrongHere's What You May Have Missed on Bravo:/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kents-new-house-has-an-ultra-chic-living-room-photos" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kents-new-house-has-an-ultra-chic-living-room-photos" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kents-new-house-has-an-ultra-chic-living-room-photos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lala Kent Shares a Look Inside the Ultra-Chic Living Room in Her New House (PHOTOS)/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-addresses-not-paying-tom-sandoval-for-bills" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-addresses-not-paying-tom-sandoval-for-bills" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-addresses-not-paying-tom-sandoval-for-bills" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Ariana Madix Explains the Real Reason She's Not Paying Her and Tom Sandoval's Bills/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-reveals-her-future-push-present-nicole-rose-jewelry" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-reveals-her-future-push-present-nicole-rose-jewelry" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-reveals-her-future-push-present-nicole-rose-jewelry" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lala Kent Reveals Her "Push Present" to Herself for Baby No. 2: "I'm Going to be Gleaming/a/strong/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="a0feb261-ba8d-42ce-92e0-c9fdfd5e4ad9" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/1106-group-photo.jpg?itok=-zx3zUPW" width="862" height="485" alt="Brock Davies, Tom Sandoval, Scheana Shay, Ally Lewber, Tom Schwartz, Lala Kent, and James Kennedy posing together." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" The group posing together during Vanderpump Rules Season 11, Episode 6. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div p"I didn't think about it," Ariana says in the clip above. "I've never been like 'Oh, Katie got a mean comment on her Instagram so I'm gonna go on my Instagram and make a big deal about —I don't know, I just feel like it's a backfire."/p p"I'm of the idea that if you ignore it, it goes away, people move on, and it's whatever," she continues. "But then, when Lala brought that up, and it became clear that it was something that was very important to her, then I did post something because I was like, well, I don't want her to think that I'm, like, purposely not posting something as some sort of attack or something."/p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="81b0e549-b7e0-477e-9caf-bbd3509b6c93" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-confronts-ariana-madix-over-scheana-drama-video" See Why Lala's Confronting Ariana in a Tense Moment: "You Didn't Come to Her Defense" /a /h2 /div pWhile Scheana notes she "appreciated" Ariana's statement, she adds, "I know it was because Lala really put it in perspective that she should." However, Lala had a different view of the situation. "Ariana didn't have to. I could have told her how I felt and she could have gone about her merry way. She didn't. She took it, she processed it, and then she made the decision to defend Scheana."/p pWatch the full conversation in the emVanderpump Rules Season 11 After Show/em video above./p