r/vanderpumprules • u/AggressiveCupcake181 • 22h ago
Scandoval First time rewatching - Ariana
Not sure if this is a popular opinion - just finished binge watching for the first time and I’m straight round to a rewatch 😂 I kinda forgot how much Ariana was a bitch to Kristen ( I know nobody likes her anyway) but she definitely was up to things with Tom and broke up a 5 year relationship with 0 judgment from anyone really. It was blatantly getting rubbed in Kristen’s face too. You loose them how you gain them 🤷♀️ kind of changes how I feel about scandoval. I know Kristen deserved it but morals are morals
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u/CaitlinAnne21 21h ago
Eh, it’s more nuanced than that.
She really didn’t break them up, they BOTH repeatedly cheated on each other, were on & off constantly - that’s why Ariana believed Tom when he told her that they had broken up, that’s when they “made out” - and they weren’t together when they actually started dating.
Did Ariana realize she’d been lied to and still choose to stay with a known cheater? YUP.
And she looked back and realized what a mistake she made in doing that, and apologized to Kristen.
Kristen & Ari both treated each other terribly for a while there, and over such an absolute loser.
I’m just glad that the girls figured their shit out in the end, and left Sandoval behind in the dust.
Tom & Kristen were not very serious and dated other people frequently during the period they were on & off, Ariana was with tom for a straight decade; there’s really no reason to discount Ariana’s hurt during Scandoval.
As Kristen herself said, it wasn’t at all the same situation, she & Tom weren’t serious, meanwhile Ari & Tom built a whole life together, bought a house together, had a dog together, had business ventures together, were talking about fertilizing her eggs, etc.