Wow, Rachel Leviss has gotten shut sufficient to look accountability within the eye… and run the opposite method!
During this week’s episode of her Rachel Goes Rogue podcast, the fact star previously referred to as Raquel answered some fan questions — and ended up leaning onerous into the narrative that she and Ariana Madix are each the victims of an evil mastermind of a person. At least, that was form of our learn!
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She’s stated for months Tom Sandoval talked to her (and likewise to bestie Tom Schwartz) about telling a model of the dishonest story that didn’t look fairly so unhealthy in the course of the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 reunion. So how did he coach her into “sticking to the story” he’d concocted? Easy — by being her solely lifeline:
“The last five minutes of Season 10, you see me break down because I want to come clean and I’m still holding things back because I don’t want to betray Tom because he is the one person I have left. In my world, it seemed like he was the only person. He got me. He understood me. He was there for me in all of this time — or so I believed.”
Rachel has additionally claimed she needed to inform Ariana in regards to the dishonest straight away — however Sandoval advised her to not. She continued:
“[Sandoval] asked me to lie when he knew that I wasn’t a good liar and I expressed to him that I don’t like lying. He put me in a really bad position with my friendships, and this placement of being on this international reality TV show… my reputation was on the line.”
She wasn’t a great liar, however once more — she did hold a full-on relationship with him secret from her so-called good friend Ariana’s again for seven months. That means efficiently mendacity for a 12 months to the girlfriend (who was additionally her good friend), to viewers of the season, AND to the present’s producers and crew, who have been apparently clueless.
But she wasn’t doing something unsuitable as a result of he was pulling the strings their total relationship!
The 29-year-old defined how she first realized how she’d been the one manipulated the entire time — identical to Ariana — throughout a session together with her therapist. She defined how she was feeling responsible about betraying Sandoval throughout her VPR interviews:
“And my therapist was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa — but didn’t Tom betray you first?’”
By… dishonest on her together with his girlfriend? No, she’s saying she now feels he manipulated her all alongside by seducing her when she was nonetheless susceptible after her breakup with James Kennedy. She defined:
“He knew I was going through this heartbreak, and I’ve heard him say on his interviews ‘Oh, Raquel really was coming into her own.’ And that’s what attracted him to me.”
That sounds prefer it means he was interested in her after she shed her vulnerability, however we guess she doesn’t see it that method? She says now she seems to be again with nothing however fury:
“I’m like, ‘You a**hole. You could have just let me be. Like, let me live. Why can’t you cheer me on as a friend?’”
Well, it actually seems like she’s carried out taking any accountability for her function in partaking in an affair together with her good friend’s longtime boyfriend. After all, if she was his sufferer all alongside, she actually didn’t do something unsuitable in any respect!
Obviously Ariana was a sufferer, too, however simply of Sandoval. She says he used her “mental health against her”:
“It’s very manipulative and messed up I think he could have gone about it in a much more mature way.”
Well, no argument with that. But another person might have been extra mature, too. Obviously Rachel is lots youthful, and there are a number of issues to contemplate right here. We aren’t going to argue that Sandoval didn’t inform her to not come clear, that he wasn’t extra accountable than anybody for what occurred. But is Rachel really being actually unhealthy by dodging all duty for her half in Scandoval?
What do YOU suppose, Perezcious relationship consultants? Is she proper that the entire affair is 100% on Tom? Or has she slipped into an area the place she’s not accepting any of the blame? Let us know within the feedback (under)!
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