'Vanderpump Rules' reunion highlights: Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix get into heated fight

Well, that was heated.

Part 1 of the "Vanderpump Rules" Season 10 reunion aired Wednesday night on Bravo, and, as expected, Tom Sandoval's affair with Raquel Leviss, his girlfriend Ariana Madix's friend, took center stage.

Tensions were high, to say the least, with the whole cast shouting over each other, and one cast member, James Kennedy, launching out of his seat multiple times to yell at Sandoval. At one point, Kennedy and Sandoval seemed almost to come to blows, with host and panel moderator Andy Cohen dropping his cue cards to literally hold Kennedy back.

“Be a man," Kennedy told Sandoval, as he started to cry while talking about the affair. "Pull yourself together. Crocodile tears.”

Leviss watched this unfold on a monitor inside a trailer 100 yards away from the reunion, as a result of a restraining order involving her and Scheana Shay. A teaser for Part 2 of the reunion, which aired at the end of the Part 1 reunion, implied she will join the reunion panel in the next episode.

Here are the highlights.

What did Sandoval say to Madix and the cast?

Sandoval started the reunion attempting to be diplomatic − though it didn't seem to fly with Madix or the other cast members, who berated him throughout the rest of the nearly hour-long special.

"I just want to say that I appreciate everybody for being there for Ariana, no matter what was going on in our relationship," he said. "She didn’t deserve it. Nobody deserves to have that happen.”

Madix chimed in with a clarification, saying, "Nothing 'happened.' You did it.”

"I’m sorry for doing the one thing I said I wouldn’t do, and I did it in the worst way possible," Sandoval replied. "I love you, and I apologize.”

Madix wasn't buying it.

"He has victim-blamed me 100% of the way, so I don’t believe anything that just came out of his mouth," she told Cohen. "I think he’s (expletive) full of (expletive), and he can (expletive) off."

Why didn't Sandoval 'come clean' about the affair to Madix?

"Why not come clean with Ariana?” Cohen asked.

"I was obviously scared to," Sandoval said. "I think also she was going through a lot during that time, and I didn’t want to add anything.”

Is it hypocritical for the cast members who've cheated to gang up on Sandoval?

Cohen noted that most of the cast are no strangers to cheating, calling out instances when they had not been faithful in their relationships. The only people at the reunion who had been faithful to their partners were Katie Maloney and Lisa Vanderpump, he said.

"This is a group of cheaters," he told the panel, which also included Lala Kent, Tom Schwartz, Shay and Kennedy. "You’re all prepared to come after Sandoval and Raquel. How is that not hypocritical?”

Kent replied: "None of us were (expletive) our best friend's man."

Will Vanderpump's business dealings with Sandoval affect her relationship with Madix?

Another sticky spot addressed in the reunion was Vanderpump's business dealings with Sandoval and how those may or may not affect her relationship with Madix. Vanderpump is an investor in Sandoval and Schwartz's restaurant TomTom in West Hollywood, California.

"Will you stop speaking to Lisa if she stays in business with the Toms?” Cohen asked.

Madix replied, "We just won’t be as close.”

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This prompted a reaction from Vanderpump. "What do you expect me to do?" she asked Madix. "I’ve been close to you and supportive of you, and you know I love you very much.”

"I'll always love and support anything that you do,” Madix told Vanderpump.

"If Tom remains my partner, I don’t want that to affect our relationship,” Vanderpump said.

"Of course," Madix replied.

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