Early on in Season 10 of Vanderpump Rules, when rumors began swirling and there was speculation about Tom and Rachel, Ariana was quick to come to both Tom and Rachel's defense.

"Obviously I love Raquel dearly and she's one of my closest friends," Ariana said on the show, using Rachel's name that she went by for years before switching back to her legal name, Rachel. "I not only trust and love her, I trust and love my boyfriend."

As we now know, that comment aged horribly, given what eventually came out about one of Ariana's "closest friends" and her now ex-boyfriend. But according to Rachel more recently, and were talking April 16, 2024 recently, their friendship was very different.

In a long-winded wall of text Rachel shared in her Instagram Stories, she addressed a few things, including her former friendship with Ariana and even what happened between herself and Scheana amid Scheana's story about allowing Rachel to live at her apartment after her breakup with James Kennedy.

"Ariana and I were not best friends," Rachel wrote in her Instagram Stories. "We were acquaintances who became friends through the show. She's always been somebody who has been very sweet to me. She would stand up for me and encourage me to pursue whatever I was pursuing. And that was all great, but we never had, like, a deep conversation that I would have with a best friend."

Rachel also wrote that she never meant to hurt Ariana and admitted that she wasn't "thinking clearly" during her affair with Tom. Still, she added that she and Ariana were never really "best friends."

In fact, according to Rachel, most of the instances where she was seen with Ariana was because she was "hanging out with Tom." And for the record, Rachel doesn't expect Ariana to ever forgive her for Scandoval. Color us very unsurprised.