{"id":108002,"date":"2023-06-15T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/meghan-mccain-says-she-feels-more-compassion-for-raquel-leviss-than-ariana-madix-what\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:19:06","slug":"meghan-mccain-says-she-feels-more-compassion-for-raquel-leviss-than-ariana-madix-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/meghan-mccain-says-she-feels-more-compassion-for-raquel-leviss-than-ariana-madix-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan McCain Says She Feels \u2018More Compassion\u2019 For Raquel Leviss Than Ariana Madix! WHAT?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Um\u2026 what!?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard numerous voices weighing in on the Scandoval. Now\u00a0<strong>Meghan McCain<\/strong> is making her voice heard to return to the protection of\u2026 <strong>Raquel Leviss<\/strong>?! Not solely that, she\u2019s selecting her <em>over<\/em> <strong>Ariana Madix<\/strong>?? Um, we now have some questions.<\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/meghan-mccain-i-feel-more-compassion-for-raquel-than-ariana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DailyMail.com<\/a><\/em> on Wednesday, the 38-year-old delved deep into all issues <em>Vanderpump Rules<\/em> \u2014 particularly the continuing <strong>Tom Sandoval<\/strong> dishonest fallout. But within the former <em>The View<\/em> host\u2019s sizzling take \u2014 she says she\u2019s feeling extra for Raquel! Yes, the identical Raquel who knowingly had an affair together with her bestie\u2019s boyfriend of almost a decade (<a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/andy-cohen-raquel-leviss-cheated-tom-sandoval-lots-of-attention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possibly even for consideration, in keeping with some<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/raquel-leviss-gushes-making-out-oliver-saunders-in-front-of-tom-sandoval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Related: Raquel Gushes About Making Out With Oliver Saunders In FRONT OF Tom!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The columnist began out by calling this complete scandal out for what it&#8217;s \u2014 a jackpot for <strong>Bravo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis was TV gold. It was the kind of real-life car crash that any connoisseur of unscripted slop relishes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We can\u2019t disagree there! But when the drama began turning into one thing extra controversial, Meghan stated, \u201csomething went terribly wrong\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTom and Raquel were smothered in hate \u2014 real hate. As \u2018Scandoval\u2019 played out in the media for months, I found myself feeling more compassion for Raquel than Ariana.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"highlight\">Whoa!<\/p>\n<p>While explaining her POV, <b>John McCain<\/b>\u2018s daughter\u00a0called the 28-year-old reality star \u201can emotionally muted brunette bombshell\u201d who \u201cpumped Ariana \u2014 on camera \u2014 for the nitty-gritty on her and Tom\u2019s relationship and intercourse life.\u201d She additionally acknowledges that Raquel \u201cpretended to be a concerned friend\u201d to Ariana whereas going behind her again and sleeping together with her man.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, the punishment, in her thoughts, doesn\u2019t match the crime!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYes, she and Tom had behaved terribly. But she took responsibility for what she did, and she was clearly suffering. Raquel checked herself into a mental health facility and had been in hiding \u2014 until the reunion finale \u2026 Reality television is meant to be escapism, not sadism. Yet that\u2019s what this became. Raquel was shaking and crying. And it all may have taken a terrifying toll. \u2026 At what point is enough \u2014 enough?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Some critically sizzling takes right here! It didn\u2019t look like Raquel was \u201cshaking and crying\u201d within the midst of the affair, although. Is she sorry she did it \u2014 or sorry she obtained <em>caught<\/em>? And sure, it\u2019s truthful to really feel sympathy for somebody in ache. That\u2019s simply empathy, and it\u2019s  factor.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Ariana and <strong>Lala Kent<\/strong> themselves have backed down from speaking trash about Raquel. Even they appear to assume the entire thing <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/ariana-madix-showing-sympathy-raquel-leviss-lax-lala-kent-video-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has gone a bit too far<\/a>. With that being stated, although, even when it\u2019s justified to really feel a little bit compassion for a way massive this has blown up \u2014 is it cheap to really feel MORE compassion for Raquel than Ariana?? We imply, let\u2019s not overlook who the sufferer is simply because one of many perpetrators is feeling actually unhealthy.<\/p>\n<p>As for the way forward for <em>Pump Rules<\/em>, the<em> Dirty Sexy Politics<\/em> writer stated she desires to see a Raquel redemption arc:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBravo shouldn\u2019t forget about Raquel \u2014 they should be thanking her. [The] \u2018Scandoval\u2019 brought the show and the network a degree of cultural significance that they have never achieved before. And from here now on out, they should proceed with a level of sensitivity that this debacle deserves. I, for one, want to watch how her story plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now THAT seems like TV gold! We imply, everybody deserves a second likelihood \u2014 in the event that they do the work to get it. Seeing her flip it round over a season or two and actually earn everybody\u2019s respect\u00a0<em>would<\/em> be superb. But that\u2019s as much as her, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>What do U assume, Perezcious readers?<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7HMRjYl1p8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bravo<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4QdQT3EOJGU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Um\u2026 what!? We\u2019ve heard numerous voices weighing in on the Scandoval. Now\u00a0Meghan McCain is making her voice heard to return to the protection of\u2026 Raquel Leviss?! Not solely that, she\u2019s selecting her over Ariana Madix?? Um, we now have some questions. In an op-ed for DailyMail.com on Wednesday, the 38-year-old delved deep into all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}