Raquel Leviss breaks silence on Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix dishonest scandal

Raquel Leviss is lastly talking out about her months-long affair with Vanderpump Guidelines star Tom Sandoval. The dishonest scandal shook the forged of the Bravo actuality present as Sandoval has been relationship their co-star, Ariana Madix, for 9 years. Madix and Leviss had been shut pals.

“I need to apologize for my actions and my selections foremost to Ariana, and to my pals and the followers so invested in {our relationships}. There isn’t any excuse, I’m not a sufferer and I need to personal my actions and I deeply remorse hurting Ariana,” she tells Leisure Tonight.

“I’m reflecting on my selections, talking to a counselor and I’m studying issues about myself comparable to my patterns of codependency and habit to being and feeling cherished. I’ve sought emotional validation by intimate connections that aren’t wholesome with out regard for my very own well-being, generally negatively affecting others and sometimes prioritizing the intimate connection over my friendships. I’m taking steps to grasp my habits and make more healthy selections,” the previous magnificence queen provides.

“Though I selected to be on a actuality present accepting the nice and dangerous that comes with it, past my very own actions I’ve been bodily assaulted, misplaced friendships, obtained dying threats and hate emails along with having had my privateness violated,” Leviss says.

“I’ve begun counseling to finish my unhealthy behavioral cycle, study to set stronger emotional boundaries and study to guard my psychological well being,” she concludes. “I do not count on sympathy, understanding or forgiveness. Proper now I need to focus by myself well being and well-being and as I attempt to be a greater individual shifting ahead, I’ll prioritize my psychological well being and study from my errors.”

It is Leviss’s first public assertion since information of her and Sandoval’s relationship broke on Friday. Sandoval issued a press release over the weekend and was broadly criticized for his phrases as he made no point out of Madix, and as a substitute, was protecting over his companies and finest pal, Tom Schwartz. Sandoval tried to rectify that with a brand new assertion on Tuesday evening the place he lastly addressed Madix instantly.

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“I need to initially apologize to everybody I’ve damage by this course of. Most of all, I need to apologize to Ariana,” he started. “I made errors, I used to be egocentric and made reckless selections that damage any person I like. Nobody deserves to really feel that ache so traumatically and publicly.”

Sandoval mentioned he feels “actually horrible” concerning the “devastating” scenario.

“My largest remorse is that I dishonored Ariana. I by no means meant to disappoint so many individuals, together with our loving households and pals,” he wrote.

“My love for Ariana was stronger than any digicam may ever have captured. A few of our greatest instances collectively had been by no means filmed. The identical goes for a few of our largest struggles. I want issues occurred in numerous order and our relationship was not severely tarnished and that it ended with the identical respect with for her that it started with. I owed Ariana higher,” he acknowledged.

Sandoval mentioned he is “past unhappy that it ended the best way it did” and that he’ll work on himself.

Madix found Sandoval was dishonest on her final Wednesday when she discovered a NSFW video of Leviss on his telephone, Yahoo Leisure can verify. Leviss was in New York Metropolis with castmate Scheana Shay, as they had been selling the present season of VPR on Watch What Occurs Reside. After the present, when information of Sandoval and Leviss’s relationship rapidly unfold throughout the pal group, there was allegedly a bodily altercation between the ladies. On Tuesday, Leviss filed a restraining order in opposition to Shay, in accordance with public data. (Though she used her authorized title, Rachel Leviss.) The incident in New York is probably going what she referred to in her assertion when she claimed to be “bodily assaulted.”

Leviss additionally fired off a sequence of authorized letters to her co-stars relating to the sexually express video. ET obtained a duplicate of the letter she despatched to Sandoval, which learn partially, “We perceive that someday just lately you and Ms. Leviss engaged in an intimate alternate on FaceTime, which you recorded with out the permission of Ms. Leviss. California is what is named a ‘two get together consent’ state, and accordingly such recording is prohibited in California and may doubtlessly expose you to each civil and prison penalties. Please be additional suggested that any distribution of this recording would represent a violation of a number of California legal guidelines.”

As for the place Leviss and Sandoval’s relationship stands, that half is unclear. Andy Cohen mentioned on Monday’s episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Reside he believes the 2 are nonetheless seeing one another. In line with VPR star James Kennedy, to whom Leviss was beforehand engaged, she and Sandoval have been sleeping collectively since July.

The scenario — dubbed Scandoval — is quickly unfolding. Manufacturing cameras went again up on Friday and the reunion is ready to be taped throughout the subsequent two weeks. Nevertheless, some studies on Tuesday claimed Sandoval threatened to cease after he did not like how a scene went this week between himself and Leviss. A Bravo rep didn’t reply to Yahoo’s request for remark.

“Tom wasn’t pleased with how the scene went with Raquel and felt prefer it was going to color him in a adverse mild. He advised producers he’d prefer to re-film the scene, however producers weren’t having it,” a supply advised ET. “Tom advised manufacturing that he would now not shoot Vanderpump Guidelines if they do not take heed to him.”