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Taylor Hill/WireImage; Amanda Edwards/Getty
Earlier this month, the formerReal Housewives of Beverly Hillsstar, 63, toldTMZthat Leviss’s filing was “ridiculous.” She suggested theVanderpump Rulesalum, 29, should not send explicit videos to “your best friend’s boyfriend” if she didn’t “want to have somebody share your porn” — although it was only after this comment that she learned about Sandoval, 41, allegedly recording Leviss without her consent.
“Immediately, I was like, ‘Oh, she didn’t read the brief,'” Leviss said on Monday’s episode of herRachel Goes Roguepodcast. “But then, you know, insiders told me like, ‘Oh no, she knows exactly what she’s doing.’ She’s saying this statement for the press to pick up this certain story.”
Rachel ‘Raquel’ Leviss and Tom Sandoval.Santiago Felipe/Getty, River Callaway/Variety via Getty
Santiago Felipe/Getty, River Callaway/Variety via Getty
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On this week’s episode of her podcast, Leviss clarified that that the video was recorded over a FaceTime call and only learned of its existence when it was sent to her. While acknowledging that the duo were never “super tight” during her time on the show, Leviss confessed that Vanderpump’s public stance on the matter “doesn’t feel good.”
“It took a long time to really decide if I’m going to press charges or not. And I felt like it was important to to bring this up,” she explained. “My privacy was violated in a very intimate and unsuspecting way, and it is embarrassing and not something that I’m proud of at all. So to have her push out a certain type of story that isn’t anywhere near the truth of what has happened is very disappointing.”
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Lisa Vanderpump.Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty
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Noting that Vanderpump — who is also Sandoval’s business partner in their L.A. barTomTom— possesses “a lot of power,” Leviss said she wanted to be “firm in standing up for myself.” She claims her former SUR boss andVPRexecutive producer has been “spreading certain propaganda and straight-up lies as a way to change the public’s perception.”
“It’s going back like years and years, decades and decades of back when people would say, ‘Oh well she was wearing booty shorts. She was asking for it. Oh, she deserved it because she looked a certain way.’ It’s very, very icky,” Leviss said. “It doesn’t feel right.”
She continued, “It’s one thing to be an advocate and advocate for [Sandoval’s] mental health in general, but it’s another to twist and turn things to support one of your cast members who is a male and have the woman take the fall.”
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source: people.com
