Tom Sandoval Misspeaks on “Traitors”, Says 'Girls Are Better Cheaters Than Guys': 'I Meant Traitors!'

The 'Vanderpump Rules' alum — who had an affair with costar Rachel Leviss while dating Ariana Madix — retracted his statement in the Feb. 12 episode

A slip of the tongue put Tom Sandoval under fire at the Traitors roundtable.

In the Feb. 12 episode, the group wanted to test the “coffin theory” that one of the people in the caskets earlier this season had to be a Traitor. With Jeremy Collins and Nikki Garcia both out of the game, that only left Ciara Miller.

At the roundtable, Tom, 42, reiterated that “at least one” person in the casket group had to be a Traitor.

“Come on, also generally speaking, historically, girls are better cheaters than guys, just because they have better social…” the Vanderpump Rules alum said before the rest of the cast jumped on him.

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“That came out your mouth?!” Traitor Danielle Reyes remarked.

“I said Traitors! I meant to say Traitors!” Tom insisted.

But everyone heard the reality star — who infamously cheated on his girlfriend of nine years, Ariana Madix, with his VPR castmate Rachel Leviss — say otherwise.

“You said cheater!” Big Brother’s Britney Haynes reminded him.

“Guys are obviously much more likely to cheat, I fully get that,” Tom acknowledged.

“We know you know,” Ciara, 28, said.

Bachelorette Gabby Windey suggested, “Everybody vote for Tom.”

As Tom continued to apologize and state that he “meant Traitors,” Sam Asghari advised, “Don’t dig yourself deeper.”

Britney Spears’s ex-husband then turned the conversation back to going after Ciara.

“Back to the coffin theory: I feel like if we don’t close it, we will never know,” Sam, 30, said. “I think the highest percentage of catching a Traitor tonight is on you until we have some other evidence to go against, which we don't yet.”

Although Ciara tried to plead her case, the vote did not go in her favor, and the group banished the Summer House star.

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“I immediately went into fight mode when I got into the coffin and maybe that was the wrong move,” Ciara said in a confessional interview. “Honestly like, I was raised by like the strongest woman, my mom and like, she was also someone who didn’t have a lot of help but she had to figure it out on her own. She’s gotten everything that she’s ever wanted and more because she stuck to her guns. And yeah, like, I’m sorry but she didn’t raise a weak bitch.”

After Ciara outed herself as a Faithful, Gabby and Britney’s jaws dropped.

“That’s crazy,” Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Dolores Catania said.

Sam admitted, “We messed that one up.”

As the remaining players mulled about the castle following the roundtable, Dylan Efron overheard Danielle, 53, and fellow Traitor Carolyn Wiger chatting by the bar about meeting up in the turret.

“The guys seem like we’ve banded together and think all of us are faithful, so now we’re looking at the girls,” Dylan, 33, told the cameras. “I’m still suspicious of Gabby, but Britney and Danielle are gamers. In this game, I have trusted Danielle and she has trusted me, but maybe her shaking is all an act. So while I love Danielle, there’s vaild suspicion on Danielle now. And I have to at least look there.”

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When Danielle and Carolyn, 38, headed into the turret at the end of the episode, which also saw Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause get murdered, host Alan Cumming gave them the option to forgo murdering that night in favor of recruiting another Traitor. Big Brother alum Danielle wanted to bring in Gabby or Britney, 37, but Carolyn, 38, worried that Danielle and Britney would team up against her.

“It makes zero sense why I would feel good about bringing your bestie in here. Like, she is,” Carolyn said to Danielle of Britney. “That would be stupid of me, I’m sorry. Anybody but Britney.”

The Traitors will make their decision in next week’s episode, which will also see Kate Chastain and Parvati Shallow return to the castle.

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