James Storms Off Set After Tom Sandoval Accuses Him Of Mixing Drugs & Booze!
May 14 2019, Updated 12:43 p.m. ET
James Kennedy earned the wrath of the entire group in part two of the Vanderpump Rules reunion — Tom Sandoval even accused him of mixing booze and drugs during a cast feud!
“Katie is it hypocritical of you to tell Lisa to get rid of James when we saw you yell at Lala at work?” Andy Cohen asked Katie Maloney about her move to get James Kennedy fired.
“I don’t like ultimatums,” Lisa Vanderpump warned her.
“I’ve let a lot of things he’s said about me roll off my back and he’s apologized but I knew he didn’t mean it and he said it again. At the end of the day I don’t regret that at all,” Maloney said about complaining that Kennedy called her “fat.”
Maloney said that she couldn’t take the body shaming any longer. “I’ve taken it in stride for three years. Everyone has been talking about it. People like him have made me feel bad about my body.”
Tom Sandoval pointed out why everyone thought she was hypocritical.
“You called Lala a [expletive]. You waited like two years to apologize,” he yelled at her. “You’re f**king hypocritical. You’re all hypocrites. I’m not trying to get somebody fired because they tell me I’m dumb!” which Maloney said to Sandoval in the previous episode.
“Were you surprised people called you the villain?” Cohen asked her.
“Oh, very much,” she said. “I think a lot of people really missed the point. That this is the point that this is about standing up for yourself. At the end of the day I really did something that I was proud of and I thought was noble. And f**k it. It felt good. So, no regrets.”
Kennedy also tried to insist that he had changed and wasn’t “drinking and partying,” anymore, but Maloney called him out, saying that she had seen him “sh*t faced” at a recent party.
Kennedy admitted that he was still drinking, and Lisa also called him out, saying: “You’re not always honest, are you, about your sobriety?”
Sandoval, who was his biggest defender, pointed out: “I think when I’ve seen with you, James, be at your absolute worst is when you’re mixing alcohol with other things. I see you have a beer, be totally chill, totally fun, mix it with other things.”
Kennedy interrupted him, asking: “What other things? I’m smoking weed. I drink vodka.”
Sandoval coyly said: “More uppers-type things,” and Kennedy quickly shut that down.
“No, I don’t,” he said but Sandoval continued. “Well, that’s like your kryptonite.”
“That’s not my thing so shut your mouth,” Kennedy told his only defender on stage.
Vanderpump admonished him and Kristen Doute ripped into him: “The one person who has had your back the entire time and you speak to him like that?”
“I think you had a drink at lunchtime,” Vanderpump said, and he justified his anger as “I’m sitting on a show with eight people screaming at me.”
He then ripped into Stassi Schroeder’s “ugly” extensions but tried to explain his reasons for drinking.
“Sometimes I can go into social anxiety. I feel like I need to be on. It gets hard for me sometimes,” he said, adding that “after a whiskey or two,” he feels better.