Pump Rules’ Katie Maloney Calls Raquel Leviss Interview ‘Hot Garbage’

Katie Maloney is unimpressed with fellow Vanderpump Guidelines star Raquel Leviss’ newest feedback about her affair with Tom Sandoval.

Katie, 36, made her opinion clear whereas commenting on Bethenny Frankel’s Wednesday, August 16, Instagram publish selling her “ReWives” podcast interview with Raquel, 28, which dropped earlier that day.

“What within the sizzling rubbish is that this?” Maloney wrote. She additionally took to her Instagram Story to seemingly indicate that Raquel had lied through the dialog with Bethenny, 52, which marked Raquel’s first time talking out concerning the dishonest scandal since half 3 of the Pump Guidelines season 10 reunion aired in June.

“You understand that trending sound or track … that was like, ‘Why the f—ok you mendacity?’” Maloney stated, referring to the viral track by Vine star Nicholas Fraser. “That’s been caught in my head, like, all morning for some cause.”

Maloney captioned the clip, “Can’t determine why.”

Throughout Raquel’s sit-down with Bethenny, which comes one month after she checked out of a psychological well being remedy facility following a three-month keep, the previous pageant queen downplayed her friendships with costars Scheana Shay and Ariana Madix. (Sandoval, 41, and Ariana, 38, known as it quits after 9 years of courting in March after Sandoval’s affair with Raquel got here to mild.)

“Ariana and I weren’t finest buddies. We have been acquaintances who turned buddies via the present,” Raquel claimed, including that the “narrative that’s being written for” her is “extra salacious” if viewers assume Ariana was one in every of her closest buddies.

Raquel continued: “[Ariana’s] all the time been someone who’s been very candy to me. She would arise for me and encourage me to pursue no matter I used to be, I don’t know … pursuing. And that was all nice — however we by no means had, like, a deep dialog that I might have with a finest pal.”

Raquel additional claimed that she “by no means” noticed Ariana outdoors of filming Pump Guidelines.

“Not simply us collectively — no,” she informed Bethenny. “[If we were best friends], we might, I don’t know, exit to dinner simply the 2 of you or buying or lunch.”

After the podcast episode aired, Katie wasn’t the one one who expressed anger concerning the interview.

“Come on, Bethenny. Nobody cares about her story,” one Instagram person commented on one in every of Frankel’s posts concerning the episode. “She screwed round along with her finest pal’s man. Good for her for going to get her psychological well being assist as a result of she clearly has points with self-worth, however why proceed to provide her any platform? Why proceed to take advantage of this disgusting and vial [sic] act?”

Bethenny, nonetheless, doubled down on the interview amid the backlash. Responding to 1 Instagram person who commented that “nobody cares about something” Raquel has to say, the Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis alum shot again, “Then don’t hear.”

Along with denying that she and Ariana have been finest buddies, Raquel seemingly confirmed through the interview that she received’t be returning for season 11 of Pump Guidelines.

“[With reality TV], they all the time dangle that carrot in entrance of you, like, ‘Effectively, it is advisable to inform your aspect of the story in any other case it’s gonna be written for you.’ And that’s terrifying. So, I nearly went again … simply due to that,” she stated through the interview.

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As for the place she stands with Sandoval now, Raquel stated that she will be able to now “look again on it and see that I used to be not in love with him.” She added that the restaurateur offered her with a “non-judgement zone” which she “wanted in that second” and said that that doesn’t “consider that he was actually in love with me both.”