Was Lisa Vanderpump "Defending" Tom Sandoval After His Affair?

Over the years,ema data-entity-href="/node/921501" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Vanderpump Rules" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="d5fe12fd-8173-4b88-a94f-2984e70783fa" href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Vanderpump Rules"Vanderpump Rules/a/emfans have watched asa data-entity-href="/node/923786" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Lisa Vanderpump" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="17eb6e18-62ea-4ccb-a1cf-b4787fd92c10" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/lisa-vanderpump" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Lisa Vanderpump"Lisa Vanderpump/a's relationship witha href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/tom-sandoval" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Tom Sandoval/ahas evolved over time./p pAmid the current emotional rollercoaster ride of Season 11, Lisa has been a sounding board for Sandoval and has tried to find ways to help him a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vpr-cast-reflects-on-lisa-vanderpumps-plea-for-tom-sandoval-in-season-11" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vpr-cast-reflects-on-lisa-vanderpumps-plea-for-tom-sandoval-in-season-11" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vpr-cast-reflects-on-lisa-vanderpumps-plea-for-tom-sandoval-in-season-11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"mend fences with the group, which has resulted in mixed reactions/a.In a recent interview with a data-entity-href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lisa-vanderpump-says-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-ends-in-tears/" data-entity-title="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lisa-vanderpump-says-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-ends-in-tears/" href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lisa-vanderpump-says-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-ends-in-tears/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emUs Weekly/em/a, Lisa shared some insight into the evolution of her relationship with former employee turned business partner and reflected on statements she made last year in the aftermath of his affair and split from a data-entity-href="/node/1052711" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Ariana Madix" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="5b41b2c0-c637-472f-a2e4-7edc53cb1b24" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/ariana-madix" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Ariana Madix"Ariana Madix/a./p h3Here's What You May Have Missed on Bravo:/h3 pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/andy-cohen-katie-maloney-tease-vpr-season-11-reunion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongAndy Cohen and Katie Maloney Tease Vanderpump Rules Season 11 Reunion: "Intense and Electric"/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/see-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-seating-chart-photo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongWe Have Your First Look at the Vanderpump Rules Season 11 Seating Chart [PIC]/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-jo-wenberg-cameo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongThe Vanderpump Rules Season 11 Reunion Included a Cameo from Jo Wenberg/strong/a/p h2Did Lisa Vanderpump Defend Tom Sandoval After His Affair?/h2 pLisa sounded off on the claims that she was defending a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-tom-sandoval-fight-affair-reason" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-tom-sandoval-fight-affair-reason" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-tom-sandoval-fight-affair-reason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Tom Sandoval's affair/a at the a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/how-the-vanderpump-rules-season-10-reunion-made-history" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Season 10 reunion/a./p p“If I was defending him, I’d be saying what he did was OK. What he did was not OK," she told a data-entity-href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lisa-vanderpump-says-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-ends-in-tears/" data-entity-title="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lisa-vanderpump-says-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-ends-in-tears/" href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lisa-vanderpump-says-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-ends-in-tears/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emUs Weekly/em/a. "But a lot of other people [on the show] have done it. So if you look at statistics of infidelity, he didn’t kill anybody. So yes, the way he did it [and] the way he handled it was all wrong."/p pThough some fans thought thata href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/em/aalum was choosing sides, Lisa has "love" for all of the cast members./p p“So I love them all. And as a mother figure to them [to] see them grown up, I think any person in that position would always try to get everybody to try and really have a better understanding of each other’s actions," she concluded./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="b2aec642-2e3e-4c43-91b6-e101a27599c4" 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/lisa-vanderpump-tom-sandoval.jpg?itok=DwzqoyQk" width="862" height="575" alt="A split of Lisa Vanderpump and Tom Sandoval." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Lisa visits Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on March 8, 2023 in New York City; Tom visits Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on February 6, 2023 in New York City. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Charles Sykes/Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pWatch new episodes ofem Vanderpump Rules/emon Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo. 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