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James Kennedy‘s exes, Kristen Doute and Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, are weighing in on the current information concerning his home violence arrest.
As James, 32, stays silent after being booked and launched on bail on Tuesday, Kristen, 41, and Rachel, 30, who each alluded to mistreatment from the Vanderpump Guidelines alum up to now, have shared their ideas concerning the alleged incident between James and, doubtlessly, his present girlfriend, Ally Lewber, 28.
“FINALLY,” Kristen, who dated James between 2013 and 2015, wrote within the caption of a December 12 put up on her Instagram Story, which included TMZ’s article about James’ arrest.
In the meantime, Rachel, who break up from James in late 2021 after 5 years of relationship, responded by way of a press release from her attorneys, Mark Geragos and Bryan Freedman.
“This information is, sadly, not shocking. Rachel’s lawsuit describes, in vital element, Mr. Kennedy’s lengthy historical past of erratic, violent habits and substance abuse,” they instructed TMZ, including that NBCUniversal and Evolution allegedly knew about James’ “troubling habits all alongside.”
Though Ally has not been recognized as James’ sufferer, she has remained tight-lipped about his arrest, as a substitute insisting they had been “in a brand new period” simply in the future after he was taken into custody after reportedly grabbing the arm of a girl throughout a verbal dispute.
Throughout an interview with The U.S. Solar on Wednesday on the New Yr’s Eve with Windsor occasion in West Hollywood, Ally stated that she and James had been trying ahead to their subsequent chapter following the information of the Pump Guidelines reboot.
“I do really feel like we are able to now identical to stay our lives and never fear about like, ‘Oh, what’s our storyline going to be like? What drama do we’ve to share?’ That isn’t wholesome and I really feel like we’re each simply making an attempt to enter this new period of our life and clear-mindedness,” she defined.
That stated, she admitted that their departure from the present was “bittersweet.”
“James, I feel he took it rather well, you already know, for James. He feels issues within the second, after which he accepts it,” she shared. “I feel it’s like grieving and only a sense of like, letting it go, reflecting, having gratitude. It’s simply bittersweet. It’s like graduating highschool or one thing.”
In line with Ally, she believes James and Scheana Shay, 39, took the information the toughest.
“I haven’t spoken to everybody, however … I feel [Ariana Madix]’s in all probability the happiest. She doesn’t must movie with [Tom Sandoval], she’s received superb alternatives forward of her … [But Scheana and James are] each emotional,” she famous. “And I feel that they’ve simply actually given it their all around the final nonetheless a few years.”
When Ally was then requested if James would miss his paycheck, Ally stated that she wasn’t involved earlier than signaling James’ profession as a DJ.
“His reveals have actually picked up. He’s received a Vegas residency. He’s advantageous within the profession division, he has a profession. And he’s making an ideal sum of money,” she shared.
Whereas a number of the solid is predicted to pop up on The Valley, Ally denied James can be doing so.
“It’s not on the playing cards. I don’t suppose that we’re feeling like a pull there. And I feel we’re simply transferring on and searching for one thing totally different,” she defined. “He’s simply so humorous and I feel that he was destined to be on TV. So I completely know James can be on TV once more. He’s simply gonna discover his method. I do know he’s excited too to simply lean extra into the music and to lastly possibly attain an viewers exterior of Bravo.”
As for the place James was throughout the occasion, Ally stated he stayed house as a result of they’d had a busy week — and since James, who has reportedly been sober for 5 years, doesn’t prefer to be round massive crowds.
