Ariana Madix Says She Felt “TRAPPED” by Vanderpump Rules Producers During the Reunion E- News

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00:00 "Great, I cried. You guys happy now?"

00:02 Vanderpump Rules stars Ariana Maddox and Katie Maloney are not happy with the way the Season 11 reunion went down.

00:10 On the May 29th episode of their Disrespectfully podcast,

00:14 Ariana joins hosts Katie Maloney and Dana Kathan to discuss how they really felt about the producers'

00:21 quote "mean tactics" during the filming of the reunion.

00:25 When referring to the producers' decision to withhold the last few moments of the season's finale

00:31 until the cast could all watch it together at the end of the taping of the reunion, Katie says,

00:37 "I hated the ending of it all. I hated that they waited to show us that five minutes because I was like,

00:43 'This feels mean and it's just mean towards Ariana.' Like, that wasn't for any of us.

00:48 Like, there was nothing shocking in it for any of us. It was just, it was only mean towards one person."

00:54 And Ariana definitely agrees with her co-star and something about her business partner, adding,

01:01 "Well, you see me mouth, like, 'What the f***?' I think to Sheena, which was literally like,

01:07 'Oh, so this is what they're doing. This is why they said, like, 'Oh, you guys don't have...'

01:12 'Cause even when they emailed the episodes, they're like, 'You'll notice that you don't have da-da-da.'

01:17 But then they didn't really say why. And so I was like, 'Oh.' So it felt like, honestly, I agree with you.

01:24 It felt very pointed towards me. It felt like, 'Well, we have her trapped in this room now.'

01:29 So we didn't get what we wanted to get, this, like, some sort of tearful, whatever the f***.

01:35 We didn't get to break her down IRL in the moment. So we're gonna retaliate by doing that right now

01:41 in a place where she's contractually obligated to be here and try to force this moment now."

01:49 "Yeah." "And it's like, great. I cried. You guys happy now?"

01:51 During the reunion, some of Ariana's co-stars were complaining that the reality star was not doing

01:57 her job when she left the finale party instead of having a conversation with her ex, Tom Sandoval.

02:04 But Ariana sees things very differently.

02:07 "And honestly, here's the thing that's so stupid. I gave them the best f***ing ending to what that

02:13 season could have had in that moment by leaving. Because it was real. It was real. And it was

02:17 exciting to watch. Sorry, if you literally are only looking at it from a perspective of, like,

02:22 good reality TV, I gave you good reality TV." "Yeah."

02:26 "Standing there, you know what I mean? That this, like, conversation that was, like,

02:30 being this, like, fake thing that they were manufactured, yeah, thing that was, like,

02:35 wanting to be had would have been a boring cap to a boring-ass season, to be honest."

02:40 "Yeah."