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Tom Sandoval is up in arms over his former assistant Ann Maddox‘s new podcast, I Signed an NDA.
While looking back on Ann’s interactions with his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Madix, 38, the Vanderpump Rules star, 41, admitted Ann may soon get a letter from his lawyer as he accused his one-time employee of “betrayal.” Plus, Tom Schwartz, 40, shaded her for seemingly putting on a performance on the show as she attempted to get hired by Ariana.
“At a really delicate, fragile time of my life, she asked Ariana to work for her. Literally on a normal Monday work day wearing a suit, which she never does,” Sandoval recalled on the April 2 episode of the Pump Rules: After Show.
“Were there cameras up?” Schwartz asked.
“Yeah,” Sandoval confirmed.
“That’s why. Putting on a performance,” Schwartz suspected of Ann.
Although Ann was Sandoval’s assistant, she expressed interest in working for Ariana after Ariana came to her for recommendations.
“I needed an assistant because I was, things were falling through the cracks, and I only know one assistant, Ann, so I thought I should ask her for recommendations, and plus, she’s great at what she does,” Ariana explained.
“But then I feel like she was at a point where she just felt she was so unhappy at her job. It was a lot of pressure because I felt really bad because I didn’t want her to think that I was going to poach her, but I also didn’t want her to think that I wasn’t hiring because I didn’t think she wouldn’t do a good job. I didn’t want her to feel bad in any way,” she continued.
According to Ariana, Ann “ended up getting fired.” So, she “should’ve just poached her.”
“And then part of me felt like, I would be just like him,” she noted.
Then, as Katie Maloney, 37, accused Sandoval of failing to give any respect to Ariana, Jax Taylor, 44, wondered if Sandoval made Ann sign an NDA.
“Yeah… She started a podcast. It’s called ‘I Signed an NDA.’ She’s about to get a letter from my lawyer,” Sandoval replied.
“It’s annoying because she’s low-key saying things that are not true,” he went on. “I saw in some interview she’s like, ‘I would go there and Ariana would already be up and doing stuff and she’s always busy, and Tom is doing this and I have to like…’ I’m just like, ’Girl, you know that Ariana wouldn’t leave her bedroom until at least one in the afternoon.’ I was always up, made her coffee. I went to bed after her, I woke up before her every day.”
Sandoval was also annoyed by the fact that Ariana reportedly “never wanted [Ann] around.”
“She would be annoyed that Ann was over, not so much at Ann, but the fact that somebody was over. And she’d be like, ‘Why do you need an assistant?’ And I’m like, ‘Because, she does things for me,’” he explained. “She waters all Ariana’s plants, keeps everything stocked in the house, it hurt. It made it seem like she just was very publicly going to Katie and Ariana, of all people, that’s a huge conflict of interest. It seems like a betrayal.”
During another segment of the show, Ariana explained what Ann’s job entailed during her employment with Sandoval.
“She’s an assistant. She’s not a housekeeper. She’s not a maid,” Ariana stated. “I have friends who have a house manager. They come in, organize packages, open packages, they come in, and there’s some dishes in the sink and they put them in the dishwasher, stuff like that to me is like not out of the realm of something that Ann would do that wouldn’t be weird, but this big huge project of having to clean up the kitchen island and people’s hair off the floor… These things are not abnormal for him.”
“It just seems like so inappropriate to me, and then I feel like I’m being gaslit into thinking it should be appropriate,” she added.
“It’s not,” Katie replied as Sandoval defended her job requirements.
“She tidies up whatever from the night before, dishes, cups, whatever, glassware, and then it’s like checking emails, going through scheduling. She gets on the phone with customer service because I hate getting on the phone with customer care or tech support. That is a nightmare to me. She doesn’t touch dirty laundry, though,” he clarified.
Still, Ariana was unimpressed.
“You create filth, you think that’s totally cool that you have Ann, who is not a maid cleaning this stuff up for you. You sleep in the next day. You don’t do any of it yourself. Fine, if that’s a lifestyle you think is acceptable. It’s not how I want to live,” she stated.
Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
