Ariana Madrix’s ex Tom Sandoval will get one other hit at his character from fling Raquel Leviss.
Raquel “Rachel” Leviss is revealing how she felt pressured by Tom Sandoval to maintain their affair’s specifics a secret when she actually needed to come back clear.
The previous forged member of Vanderpump Guidelines disclosed that Sandoval gave her the order to “follow a narrative” he wrote about their surprising encounter with a purpose to reduce the stress earlier than the Bravo sequence’ Season 10 reunion final yr.
“The final 5 minutes of Season 10, you see me break down as a result of I need to come clear and I’m nonetheless holding issues again as a result of I don’t need to betray Tom as a result of he’s the one person who I’ve left,” she stated on her “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast Thursday.
“In my world, it appeared like he was the one particular person. He bought me. He understood me. He was there for me in all of this time — or so I believed.”
After 9 years with Ariana Madix, Sandoval tried to cover the specifics of his affair with Leviss, nevertheless it wasn’t till her one-on-one interview with producers on the finish of the present that she opened up and revealed them.
Within the last moments of the reunion, Leviss recounted speaking with a therapist about how she had “betrayed Tom by telling this reality.”
She recalled her therapist responding in shock, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa — however didn’t Tom betray you first?”
The Bravo alum later got here to see how the 41-year-old singer had tricked her into mendacity at first in regards to the length of their relationship despite the fact that she knew she “wasn’t a superb liar.”
“I expressed to him that I don’t like mendacity,” she defined on her podcast.
“He put me in a extremely dangerous place with my friendships, and this placement of being on this worldwide actuality TV present [meant] that my popularity was on the road.”
Considering again on the controversy, Leviss additionally questioned whether or not Sandoval had intentionally focused her after her breakup with co-star and ex fiancé James Kennedy, when she was at her most susceptible.
“He knew I used to be going by this heartbreak, and I’ve heard him say in his interviews, ‘Oh, Raquel actually was coming into her personal.’ And that’s what attracted him to me,” she admitted.
Leviss went on to criticise her ex-boyfriend for pursuing her reasonably than being a pal to her.
“You a–gap. You may have simply let me be. Like, let me stay,” she ended.
