Lisa Vanderpump on Ariana Not Wanting Cast to Befriend Sandoval

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Lisa Vanderpump is sharing her thoughts on Ariana Madix not wanting the Vanderpump Rules cast to be friends with her ex-boyfriend, Tom Sandoval.

While also shading the delayed opening of Ariana and Katie Maloney‘s sandwich shop and addressing several topics related to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and its cast, Lisa, 63, shared the secret to her marriage to Ken Todd and explained why she doesn’t feel that Ariana, 38, is being reasonable.

“I understand that, but we also have to understand they‘ve been friends for so many years, and they’ve had the experience of being on a television show, [which is] very bonding, for like 14 years. So you can’t just walk away from [everything],” Lisa explained during the April 25 episode of Access Hollywood‘s Housewives Nightcap. “[Scheana Shay] almost grew up with Tom Sandoval.”

As Pump Rules season 11 continues to air, chronicling the months that followed Sandoval’s affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, 29, Ariana has seemingly become more and more distant from Scheana. And, during an interview earlier this week, Ally Lewber, 28, described their relationship as “tense.”

Also, in recent episodes, Ariana and Katie, 36, have been seen struggling to open Something About Her.

“I’m really hoping it will open very soon because they’ve been paying rent for a long time and they need to open it,” Lisa said of the venue before signaling to Ariana’s distractions, which have included Dancing With the Stars and a stint on Broadway.

“There is some excuse and they’ve had problems with the city but I would have probably opened it a year ago,” she noted, declining the idea of helping out.

“I do not need to step in anything. How about that?” she declared.

Moving on to RHOBH, Lisa said a return will “never happen” in “a million years.”

“I left that with a cloud of dust behind me. Never. There’s no way,” she stated. “I’m on Vanderpump Villa, Vanderpump Rules, and I’m with [Gordon Ramsay] — [and] being with Gordon is like being on the housewives,” she shared.

But there is something that would make her return.

“Like, if they fired them all and it was the Real Housewife of Beverly Hills? I would do that,” she admitted before adding that she loves Garcelle Beauvais, 57.

“[Garcelle and I] could be the [RHOBH]. I like it … [But] there’s a few of them that aren’t very nice,” she continued after Kyle Richards, 55, was mentioned.

She even asked, “Kyle who?,” when a reconciliation was suggested.

As for the recent departures of Crystal Kung-Minkoff, 41, and Annemarie Wiley, 41, Lisa asked, “Who’s Annemarie?”

Also, during the interview, Lisa was asked about the secret to her decades-long marriage to Ken.

“There were no secrets. Tenacity, putting each other first,” she began.

She then jokingly added, “I told you I’m always looking for somebody else I just didn’t find them yet.”

Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.