Vanderpump Rules season 10 ended with a devastating three-part reunion during which Ariana Madix and Lala Kent eviscerated Raquel Leviss, to the level the place many viewers discovered their phrases and actions uncomfortable to look at.
And, in hindsight, Lala agrees, acknowledging now she was left feeling “dirty” in the moments after the reunion wrapped filming.
© BravoHowever, she additionally believes that Raquel ought to by no means have been allowed on actuality TV, persevering with: “For me, it’s a reality TV show [and] I feel like we’re all playing the same game, but when I watched that, I was like, ‘Oh, we’re maybe dealing with someone who maybe shouldn’t be on this type of platform.”
Despite the majority of Bravo followers being on Team Ariana, many discovered it uncomfortable to look at the solid assault Raquel as she sat and accepted their jabs and usually agreed with their sentiments.
“I don’t know how other people feel about the last five minutes, but I did sit there and go, ‘Oh [expletive], she needs some real help,’ and I’m hoping she got it,” Lala informed TMZ.
© BravoThe three-part reunion between the stars of the Bravo present largely targeted on the affair between Raquel and Tom Sandoval, who had been in a nine-year relationship with Ariana. Tom, now 39, and Ariana, now 37, had been collectively for 9 years following the former’s break-up with fellow Vanderpump star Kristen Doute.
They met in 2013, when Ariana was launched on the second season of the present, a by-product of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills starring restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump; they started relationship in 2014. They ultimately moved in collectively, and in late 2022 Ariana spoke overtly about their future, admitting that she did not see marriage “on the agenda”.
© BravoRaquel, 28, in the meantime, was launched to the present in season 5 in 2016 as the girlfriend of solid member James Kennedy. The two received engaged in 2021 however cut up up a couple of months later. Ariana found the affair when she checked out Tom’s telephone and noticed an intimate video taken by Raquel.
Tom shared a press release on Instagram the following day, apologizing to Ariana and admitting the affair, stating that he “made reckless decisions that hurt somebody I love”. Raquel then additionally shared a press release with ET admitting her half in the relationship and apologizing to her followers and particularly Ariana, including that she was in search of counseling.
© BravoThe drama grew to become a world story, and dominated huge swathes of the web — one gossip columnist even referred to as it “our Brangelina”, and The New York Times lined it.
In the reunion, taped simply three weeks after the scandal broke, Ariana, greatest buddy Katie Maloney, Lala and James attacked Tom and Raquel for his or her deceitful conduct. Lisa additionally shared her disappointment in Tom’s conduct, even as she refused to interrupt her enterprise partnership with him.
Sandoval’s greatest buddy and Katie’s ex Tom Schwartz, who knew of the affair and saved it secret, squirmed uncomfortably all through the continuing and additionally took jabs from Ariana, La La, Katie, and the others.
© BravoThe closing jiffy noticed Raquel communicate to a producer days after the reunion was filmed the place she debunked a number of of Tom’s claims and laid out the true timeline of their affair.
It was additionally confirmed that she had voluntarily checked right into a psychological well being remedy facility after filming and was nonetheless present process remedy.
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