Raquel Leviss — the Vanderpump Rules character, whose affair with co-star Tom Sandoval has been splashed all around the web for the final month — has checked into a mental health treatment facility.
“Raquel and her family decided before the relationship was discovered that she would enter a voluntary facility for mental health counseling,” a rep for the Bravo character stated in a press release obtained by a number of information shops. “She was scheduled to go in pre-reunion,” which taped on March 23, “but decided she wanted to finish her filming commitment. Bravo and production were aware and in support of her journey towards better mental health.”
The rep added that Leviss just isn’t in rehab for substance abuse points however in a program targeted on “mental health and trauma therapy.”
Leviss’s spokesperson has not but responded to Yahoo Entertainment’s request for remark.
In early March, it was revealed that Leviss and Sandoval carried on a months-long affair whereas he was in a nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix. Madix uncovered the connection after seeing a sexually specific video of Leviss on Sandoval’s telephone and scrolling by their chat historical past. Madix broke up with the TomTom bar proprietor and musician.
Both Leviss and Sandoval apologized for his or her roles within the dishonest scandal. For her half, Leviss apologized “for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans so invested in our relationships. There is no excuse, I am not a victim and I must own my actions and I deeply regret hurting Ariana.”
Leviss went on to disclose that she had been in counseling studying about her “patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved.” She stated she was hopeful remedy would assist to finish her “unhealthy behavioral cycle” and vowed to make it a precedence to “protect” her mental health and “learn” from these errors.
Earlier this week, Sandoval gave his first interview amid the scandal dubbed “Scandoval” on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast. In it, he detailed his first kiss with the SUR server — final yr within the yard of the house he shared with Madix.
“We just kissed,” he stated. “It was magnetic. We were talking, moving closer, and as we were talking, as time went on, we would just start talking closer and closer, and then all of a sudden, we’re kissing.”
Of the spark, he stated, I felt one thing that I hadn’t felt in so lengthy, like, emotionally.” He went on to call Leviss “superior,” kind,” “smart,” witty,” fun,” “beautiful” and “f***ing amazing.”
He additionally stated that earlier than issues took a romantic flip, Leviss was “a source of strength” for him as he navigated his allegedly sad and unhealthy relationship with Madix.
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