Raquel Leviss Grilled By Andy Cohen About Affair, Sandoval Blows Up At Manufacturing Throughout Reunion

Earlier than we get to Raquel’s one-on-one with Andy, nonetheless, viewers first noticed her with Tom Sandoval in her trailer throughout a lunch break. The 2 needed to be filmed there as a consequence of her restraining order towards Scheana Shay, which required the pair to be separated by 100 toes the period of filming.

Although Leviss had been watching the motion unfold on a TV monitor, Sandoval crammed her in on the excessive feelings inside.

“It is tough on the market,” Tom mentioned after becoming a member of her. “I obtained emotional proper off the bat and [James Kennedy] is actually been precisely how I knew he can be. He is uncontrolled. Scheana’s absolutely groveling to [Katie Maloney] as a result of she needs to be again within the group. [Lala Kent] who actually doesn’t give a flying f— about both of us calling me a narcissist. They’re making us out to be mainly pathological liars.”

“We all know that we’re not, we have not lied about something apart from this affair,” Leviss mentioned, making an attempt to reassure him. She then mentioned she did have some considerations about what she had watched thus far, nonetheless, as she felt it gave the impression of Tom “had a stable relationship” with Ariana Madix earlier than the affair started. “Clearly, I solely know what you are telling me,” she added, “I really feel like she felt like she needed to maintain the connection going since you by no means broke up along with her.”

Sandoval mentioned that was true, “in a way,” earlier than warning Raquel that Madix was going to “unleash on you” when she finally joined the remainder of the group. “It simply sucks as a result of my total character is in query now,” she mentioned, calling the scandal her “wakeup name.”

With that, Tom made his exit, earlier than telling producers he was accomplished for the second and needed a “actual break” the place he and Raquel weren’t being filmed. One of many present’s producers pushed again, nonetheless, saying that cameras needed to keep up each time anybody was collectively speaking — and mentioned that is precisely what they have been doing with the remainder of the solid as effectively.

“We legally should have a break,” mentioned Tom, because the producer mentioned he might, however would not have the ability to have alone time with Raquel. “I am gonna f—ing flip,” Sandoval exclaimed, “I am not kidding. I want a break from filming. Cease filming me! I wanna discuss to her like, I do not need a digicam in my f—ing god rattling face!”

“I do not really feel relaxed, she does not both, we’ve got to look at what we f—ing say, we do not need that. We’re in a really delicate place proper now!” he added, earlier than it seems manufacturing relented. Sandoval then joined the group again on stage as filming continued with out Raquel.

At one level, Sandoval accused Kennedy of getting belligerent at an occasion and smacking a girl on the butt — prompting Ariana to exclaim, “You simply f— my pals! You simply f— ’em!” She additionally slammed Tom for dedicating songs to her at a few of his gigs, whereas he was already “f—ing different individuals.”

Speak then transitioned to the restraining order towards Scheana, which Raquel filed, claiming Shay had punched her after studying concerning the affair. Since Scheana would not get into specifics as a consequence of litigation and Raquel wasn’t but on stage, Andy requested Sandoval what he thought occurred.

“I wasn’t there. I really feel like I am between a rock and a tough place. The factor is, I do not wish to upset my relationship with Scheana however I wanna inform the reality,” he mentioned, as Ariana instructed him he did not even have a relationship with Scheana anymore.

“Scheana mentioned, ‘I am on Raquel’s cellphone proper now, I am gonna throw it and name you from mine,’” claimed Madix. “She mentioned, ‘I pushed her,’ she by no means mentioned punched.’

Sandoval instructed a completely completely different story although, claiming Scheana exclaimed, “I simply punched that bitch within the face and threw her cellphone on the street.” He was adamant, saying he’d “take a f—ing polygraph” to show he was telling the reality — although Scheana instructed him to “preserve your f—ing mouth shut.”

Shay went on to inform Sandoval they’d by no means be pals once more, earlier than admitting she had suspicions one thing was occurring between Raquel and Tom and even expressed them to Ariana. Madix, she mentioned, instructed her she did not assume there was any reality to the rumors on the time as a result of “neither of them would ever do this to her.”

Cohen then offered Scheana with some paperwork he acquired from Raquel throughout their one-on-one interview the day earlier than the reunion. In a clip from that dialog, Leviss mentioned she “fully” regretted submitting for the restraining order and claimed she and her lawyer have been taking “each measure to have it dropped.” The papers she gave to Andy to offer Scheana have been proof of her request to dismiss their upcoming court docket listening to.

“I might reasonably she did not, we do not want her anyplace close to any of us,” remarked Madix, earlier than Lala mentioned the entire ordeal had “taken its toll” on Shay. Scheana then broke into tears as she opened up about how emotional it has been for her.

“Having this for the previous couple of weeks, to start with, the betrayal of two of my greatest pals, that’s heartbreaking in itself,” she mentioned, earlier than mentioning how a lot of a “trip or die” each she and Ariana had been to Raquel earlier than the affair.

“I did the whole lot for her and for her to do that to me, it has taken such a toll on me. I’ve not been capable of be fully current for my daughter. My daughter sees me crying and he or she begins crying, she began hyperventilating the opposite day as a result of she noticed me having a full breakdown. It has been rather a lot,” she mentioned, earlier than breaking down once more.

Watching Shay’s tears, Raquel mentioned to a producer within the trailer that she ought to have written “a private notice” to Scheana after the scandal was revealed. “As issues are unfolding, it is extra realizations and extra regrets,” she added.

Again within the studio, Tom apologized to Scheana and mentioned the state of affairs had “spiraled method, method uncontrolled.” He mentioned their deceit should not erase 15 years of friendship, saying he and Raquel “didn’t do that maliciously.” Madix was incensed at that remark, shouting at him, “You watch what you f—ing say proper now, as a result of it’s malicious!”

He tried to say they did not enter the affair with “malicious intent,” however Ariana wasn’t listening to It — calling him “disgusting” earlier than a vicious back-and-forth between the previous couple. Andy broke it up after which despatched Scheana packing so Raquel might be a part of them on stage, although he confirmed extra from his one-on-one with Leviss earlier than she stepped out.

Of their dialog, Raquel mentioned she was “just a little nervous” concerning the reunion, however acknowledged that “it is necessary for me to be right here to take accountability for my actions and so I am right here to do this.” She went on to say that whereas Tom has at all times been “any individual that has been in my nook and has rooted for me,” issues between them did not begin to get romantic till round August 2022. “He made me really feel heard and seen. And people are emotions that I have not actually felt possibly ever,” she added, confirming she by no means felt that method with ex James both.

When requested by Cohen whether or not she thought there would ever be a path ahead with Ariana after she discovered, she laughed and mentioned she did. “I feel I used to be dwelling in my very own little actuality hoping that it could work out,” she responded, earlier than Cohen then puzzled whether or not she and Sandoval have been telling themselves Madix was ignoring all of the purple flags as a result of she “did not wish to know” one thing was presumably occurring.

“It appeared that method. She by no means pressed about it, she by no means confronted me about it. She did not, from what I do know kind what Tom’s instructed me, she did not query him an excessive amount of about it, simply believed at face worth what he would inform her,” mentioned Raquel. That, to Cohen, sounded “such as you’re blaming” Ariana for the affair.

“On the time, I feel that was my mindset. Now I do know that she actually did wish to know and it was very deceitful. I am very ashamed of it,” she mentioned.

Leviss claimed that she and Tom have been planning to inform Ariana concerning the relationship, however the two “needed to get ‘our story straight’ beforehand. “He felt like it could damage her if she knew how lengthy this has been occurring,” she added, as Andy requested if that meant the 2 have been going to lie about what number of months they’d been sneaking round behind her again. “Yeah,” she responded, saying she ended up telling Madix the reality when confronted concerning the affair.

“She mentioned thanks for telling me as a result of Tom would have by no means instructed me the reality,” she claimed Ariana instructed her. Raquel added she was “scared” to see Madix in individual and was “making ready for the worst, hoping for the very best.”

Earlier than Raquel lastly walked out, Andy identified that she and Ariana hadn’t seen one another in individual because the affair was uncovered. When requested how she felt about seeing Leviss, Madix mentioned, “Not nice,” whereas Sandoval had no concept really feel. As she began to stroll towards the stage, Tom Schwartz popped a Xanax and provided them to to the remainder of the solid … whereas Ariana completely refused to even look in Raquel’s path.

With that, the episode ended — although a preview for subsequent week’s third installment of the reunion confirmed Ariana going for the jugular, the solid questioning the entire Raquel-Schwartz dynamic and Tom breaking down in tears as he tells Madix, “I do know that you simply hate me and that is okay … however I need you to know I’ll at all times love you.”

“I can not consider two worse individuals, I can not,” Ariana replies.

The reunion continues subsequent Wednesday on Bravo.