Scheana Shay is not sugarcoating the current state of her friendship with Ariana Madix.
“Things definitely aren’t where they were a year ago,” the “Vanderpump Rules” star exclusively tells while promoting her partnership with Smirnoff ICE’s “Surpr-ICEs” campaign at this year’s Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif.
However, she notes that she and husband Brock Davies were present at Madix’s final April 7 performance in Broadway’s “Chicago.”
“We didn’t really [talk] — I mean, I went with Brock, we said hi after,” says Shay, 38, suggesting that she and Madix, also 38, didn’t interact much before or after the theatrical production in New York City.
“She was absolutely incredible, but she’s a very busy person right now, as am I.”
Shay is optimistic that she and Madix “can reconnect” when the actress returns to the West Coast after playing Roxie Hart on the Great White Way — even if they clashed during the March 16 “Vanderpump Rules” Season 11 reunion taping.
“I think it’s just tough, the position we’re all in and the reunion didn’t necessarily help bring us closer together,” she divulges. “I can say that.”
The current installment of “Pump Rules” has seen Shay unpack her complicated feelings about potentially moving forward in her friendship with Tom Sandoval — after he cheated on Madix with their now-former castmate Rachel “Raquel” Leviss.
While Madix and Shay have been close for years, the latter has explained on the show that her bond with Sandoval, 41 — whom she distanced herself from in the wake of his infidelity scandal — also goes way back, underlined…
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