Raquel Leviss Claims Lala Convinced Her Oliver Was Single

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Raquel Leviss claims Lala Kent satisfied her Oliver Saunders was single throughout their forged journey to Las Vegas final summer season.

As Lala shaded her Vanderpump Rules castmate on her podcast and Andy Cohen opened up concerning the upcoming reunion taping amid Raquel’s authorized drama with Scheana Shay, Raquel mentioned that due to Lala’s personal flirtation with Oliver, she “100 percent” believed that he was not married to Samantha Saunders.

“I was like, ‘Oh, Lala mentioned meeting him at the Vanderpump à Paris opening, and she was saying that she was kind of into him,’” Raquel defined on a current episode of Page Six‘s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast. “And that made me think that he was single. There was no thought in my head that he was [not].”

As Raquel shared, Oliver “point-blank” advised her, “‘I’m separated from my wife, and I have a child,’” and, as a result of she felt charmed by his “really good personality” and located “the way he spoke about his son” to be “very endearing,” she discovered herself considering, “I’m kinda into this guy.”

“And then Lala gave me the green light,” she recalled.

Meanwhile, in the identical interview, Scheana mentioned that on account of Oliver’s relationship standing being “an immediate red flag” to Lala, she advised Raquel she may “have him,” although she had a “crush” on Garcelle Beauvais‘ son.

“[Raquel] got put in such a bad position … [It was] not her fault,” Scheana famous, defending her co-star simply days earlier than it was revealed that she and Tom Sandoval, the boyfriend of their mutual pal and castmate Ariana Madix, had been allegedly having an affair.

Following the information of Sandoval and Raquel’s relationship, Lala lashed out at Raquel on her podcast.

“Bottom feeders attract to bottom feeders, and real recognize real,” Lala mentioned on the March 9 episode of Give Them Lala, by way of Us Weekly. “That’s how it’s always been.”

According to Lala, Raquel’s habits amid season 10, which included dates with Peter Madrigal and a make-out with Tom Schwartz, “feels very climb-y.”

“There’s plenty of dudes to make out with. You gotta get out of the group,” she suggested. “For it to be your best friend’s dude it’s just yucky. For her to make a comeback, the group’s never gonna forget. That’s some low-down, dirty stuff.”

“I personally would leave and run away and go home, I would go and live my life,” Lala continued. “You don’t expect your best friend who’s a woman to do you like that. And to sit there and look you in your eyes and confide in each other and go get lunch when the whole time that’s what she’s been doing behind your back? That is absolutely terrifying.”

Although Lala mentioned she and Katie Maloney had been “picking up” a scent amid manufacturing, they may’ve by no means imagined the destruction Raquel would finally trigger.

“This is Ariana’s real life. It’s everyone’s real life, and I’m heartbroken for her. I cannot even imagine. She is going to come out of this looking at her life differently,” she shared.

While Lala is understandably disgusted by Raquel’s habits, she has no plans to get “physical” on the upcoming reunion.

“I’m not trying to catch a case,” she defined. “Also, there’s something about putting my hands on someone that feels ick. So, that’s not gonna be me, but I’ve never really been a physical person. That’s why I talk the way I do. I don’t know how the rest of the cast is gonna be. I think that there’s gonna be a lot of security for sure.”

As for a way Ariana is doing at present, Lala mentioned she texts her and checks in with pals earlier than noting that she is planning to maintain her distance “until the wound is not so fresh.”

Lala then seemingly likened the scandal to the tip of her relationship with Randall Emmett.

“[Sandoval] dimmed her light. Dimmed it. He exhausted it,” she said. “And you wanna know how I know? Because I was in something like that, where I was like, ‘God, you’re so f-cking annoying, I’m exhausted from you.’”

In different information, on a current episode of his SiriusXM radio present, Andy answered fan questions concerning the taping of the reunion, which is ready to movie in simply two weeks — earlier than Raquel’s restraining order towards Scheana, who she accused of assault (which Scheana denies), expires.

“I don’t know, I haven’t gotten into it,” Andy admitted on the March 8 episode of Andy Cohen Live, by way of Us Weekly. “The reunion is in, like, two and a half weeks, and I think there will be a lot happening in the two and a half weeks. There’s so much happening every single day, so I don’t know.”

Then, when Andy was requested if Sandoval and Raquel will skip the taping, Andy mentioned the particular might be “great” it doesn’t matter what.

“I don’t want to lean into hypothetical situations because I don’t want to be quoted talking about a hypothetical,” Andy replied. “All I can say is we’re going to deliver a reunion, and that’s what I can tell you. We’re going to deliver a reunion, and it’s gonna be great. How about that?”

Vanderpump Rules season 10 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.