Tom Sandoval texted with Luke Broderick before Kristen Doute’s podcast

Tom Sandoval shares the receipts after his ex-girlfriend Kristen Dout publicly criticizes his lawsuit against Ariana Madix.

After Doute, 42, and her boyfriend, Lucas Broderickdiscussed the legal drama on their joint “Balancing Act” podcast, Sandoval, 42, dismissed her comments.

“Really @kristendoute, I had the ‘dare’??? I know this really didn’t come from @luke_broderick minutes after I made a statement,” Sandoval wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, July 20, sharing a screenshot of the text exchange between the men. “By the way, I always have love for Luke.”

According to Sandoval’s screenshot, he received a text message from Broderick, 33, on Thursday, July 18. Broderick allegedly informed him that the couple was “about to record a podcast” discussing the lawsuit. Broderick asked if Sandoval wanted to “call or say anything else” about the situation.

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Broderick also claimed that he understood that the legal motion likely came from an attorney and not Sandoval himself, in an “action to separate him from Ariana.” It is not known whether Sandoval responded to the text.

Doute and Broderick’s podcast episode “Balancing Act” aired later Thursday, in which she expressed her disgust in the legal filing.

“I was about to ream his ass,” Doute joked. “[The idea that] Tom complains that Ariana is crazy. I’ve texted horrible things. I don’t want any of you to read how mean I thought that was.’

Broderick, meanwhile, took an opposing perspective.

“It’s funny because when I saw the article about it, I said, ‘This is probably just to separate Tom and Ariana, and it’s a normal legal process,'” he recalls. “Because in the revenge porn distribution, his lawyers probably said, ‘Look, if you file this against Ariana, you’re deleted because she took it off your phone and therefore one of these charges against you can be dropped.'”

We weekly broke the news earlier this month that Sandoval had filed a lawsuit against 39-year-old Madix, claiming she “gained access” to his phone in March 2023 and viewed explicit videos of Rachel ‘Raquel’ Leviss without Sandoval’s “authorization or consent.” (The videos show how Madix initially learned that then-boyfriend Sandoval was having an affair with Leviss, 29.)

“It is disgusting that Tom Sandoval continues to torment Ms. Madix,” Madix’s attorney said Jordan Susman told Us in a statement at the time. “From engaging in an illicit affair that destroyed her home and stability, to months of emotional warfare and now this attempt to further avoid personal responsibility for the effects his actions have had on her and her emotional well-being.”

The statement continued: “Tom Sandoval knows full well the privileges he and Ms. Madix shared regarding their personal communications devices. If he or his mistress had their way, it would be illegal for anyone to discover their spouse or partner was having an affair.”

Later on Thursday, Sandoval released a statement denying that he intentionally filed a lawsuit against Madix.

‘Late Tuesday afternoon, my lawyer, Matt Geragos, whose advice I trusted, called me about the cross-complaint in the lawsuit against myself and Ariana,” he wrote via Instagram. “He assured me that the action in these types of lawsuits was customary and strictly preventive and urged me to agree. The words “New Trial” or “Indictment” were not spoken to me. I should have done more research on this matter.”

Sandoval further stated that “the action against Ariana filed on my behalf is withdrawn” and he planned to fire Geragos from his legal team. (The lawyer is the brother of Leviss’s lawyer, Mark Geragos.)

“By removing both the cross-complaint and the attorney who recommended it, I hope to bring this matter to a swift conclusion so that Ariana and I can finally move on with our lives,” Sandoval concluded at the time.