Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz took aim at Katie Maloney for her treatment of Jo Wenberg following part two of the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion on Tuesday.
As Katie, 37, attempted to defend her antics against Schwartz’s former flame, Sandoval, 41, described her behavior as the “definition of “evil” as Schwartz admitted his ex-wife is one of the most vindictive people he’s ever met.
“I think Katie’s level of anger is rarely ever on par with the action. She openly talks about how she enjoys watching people suffer and stuff. That is the very definition of evil,” Sandoval declared on the May 21 episode of the Vanderpump Rules: After Show.
“I would concur, even coming from someone who still loves her and appreciates Katie, that’s 100 percent fact,” Schwartz replied. “I don’t think she enjoys people suffering … She will prey on people’s downfalls … I don’t want to talk trash [but] she’s probably one of the more vindictive people I’ve ever met in my life.”
Meanwhile, Katie felt she had a good reason for treating Jo the way she did.
“The way she treated [Kristen Doute], who was the one that vouched for her so hardcore that was her like best friend, hung out with her every single day … When Kristen reached out to her to ask her, like, ‘What’s the deal? You’re staying with Tom Schwartz?’ She just cut her off with zero explanation, and I think that’s very odd,” Katie explained. “That’s very strange behavior to me and it makes me think that there’s an entire side to a person that is spooky. She can’t be trusted.”
Although some have accused Katie of mistreating Jo because she was dating(ish) Schwartz, Katie denied any such thing, saying, “If someone wants to try their hand at that, go ahead. I raised that man for 12 years. I couldn’t do it any longer.”
While Katie credited Jo’s ghosting of Kristen as the reason for her dislike, Schwartz suggested Kristen was the guilty party in her falling out with Jo.
“Apparently, Kristen said some really awful things to her that were just beyond repair. I don’t know what they were. [But] I never saw the texts,” he shared as Sandoval confirmed the messages were “bad.”
According to Schwartz, Katie “never liked Jo,” but according to Sandoval, her disdain stemmed from Jo’s relationship with Schwartz after their divorce.
“Katie felt like, ‘It’s okay for me to hook up with people,’ even when she and Schwartz were still living together, but if Schwartz moves on to anybody … she can have some sort of issue, whether it’s a friend of a friend or whatever, she’s gonna use that as leverage because she doesn’t want to see Schwartz with anybody,” he alleged.
Sandoval went on to accuse Katie of being “negative” towards any woman in Schwartz’s life.
As for Schwartz, he said that although it may have been a “double standard” at “one point,” where it was okay for Katie to be happy and fall in love, she has been different as of late, including being “pro-[Katie Flood].”
“Whatever that was has sort of subsided now. Katie’s dating and happy and I don’t think it’s gonna be an issue from here on out,” he stated. “But early on, I know I hurt her feelings with the thing in Mexico, but Jesus, she burned down my f*cking life after that.”
The Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion concludes next Tuesday, May 28, with part three at 8/7c on Bravo.
