Raquel Leviss Accuses LVP of Not Truly Caring, & Slams James

Raquel Leviss believes Lisa Vanderpump, 62, used her canine Graham as “bait” to lure her again to Vanderpump Guidelines for season 11.

Whereas showing on Bethenny Frankel‘s podcast, Raquel, 28, recalled how she discovered her canine had been reunited along with her ex-fiancé, James Kennedy, 31, confirmed her plans to begin a podcast of her personal, mentioned her future household, and regarded again on the dying threats she acquired after the reveal of her affair with Tom Sandoval, 40.

“I’m actually, actually completely satisfied that I took the time to go to get remedy on the Meadows,” Raquel mentioned on the August 18 episode of Simply B With Bethenny. “As a result of they did educate quite a bit about disgrace, and carried disgrace, poisonous disgrace, and what wholesome disgrace is. And with all of the vitriol on-line and hate that’s been thrown at me, if I had been to take that on as my very own, I don’t even know the way I’d survive.”

Following the information that Sandoval cheated on longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix, 38, along with her, Raquel and her household acquired dying threats.

“My mother and father acquired them greater than I did. I shut off social media fairly early on and thank God I didn’t have my cellphone whereas I used to be in remedy. We acquired the FBI concerned as a result of these items aren’t okay,” she shared. “I believe folks had been seeing crimson they usually had been simply, like, overcome with these feelings, however not pondering that it is a state of affairs that isn’t so black and white.”

Over 5 months after the scandal broke, Raquel resides in Arizona and planning to avoid her former dwelling in Los Angeles.

“I’m going to be touring round. I’m not heading again to L.A. anytime quickly. So I’ve some plans to take a look at completely different states and completely different areas. It’s unwritten at this level,” she defined.

As for her future household, Raquel seems ahead to assembly somebody sooner or later. However for now, she’s staying single and persevering with to give attention to her psychological well being.

“I’d like to have a wholesome relationship however proper now, I’m nurturing my home vegetation and nonetheless therapeutic myself so I can break these patterns,” she famous.

Raquel is even planning her personal podcast.

“I actually am impassioned by studying about myself and the psychology behind all of this and I’m taking the steps to begin my very own podcast,” she confirmed. “I really feel like it might be an effective way to share my facet of the story and convey on consultants that basically perceive the psychology behind it. And I really feel like that is an space that’s untapped as a result of no one actually desires to speak about being the opposite girl as for as many individuals which are harm by this affair, there’s equally as many individuals which have been that [other person].”

When Bethenny, 52, then signaled to the drama surrounding her canine, who was returned to James after being taken to an animal rescue, Raquel detailed the animal’s unhealthy conduct.

“He has a historical past of aggression and he’s bitten me actually laborious. He’s bitten different folks. I already was contemplating getting a foster household whereas going into The Meadows and attempting it out. However, my canine Graham bit my mother’s hand all the way down to the bone, and it was so unhealthy she couldn’t even get stitches. And I had the choice to both depart The Meadows and return and care for my canine, or attempt to get him re-homed and end out my remedy,” she defined.

As a result of Raquel knew she had extra work to do, she selected to remain in remedy and discover a breed-specific canine rescue for Graham in hopes of getting him rehomed. However after the rescue heart did not discover a dwelling for Graham, they scanned his microchip, realized he was Raquel’s canine, and reached out to Lisa for a donation — despite the fact that it was speculated to be a “confidential, nameless [situation].”

In line with Raquel, she had good motive for not wanting the canine with James.

“He doesn’t have canine expertise and he’s a part of the explanation why Graham is a biter. James would encourage Graham to chew his arms laborious, and he preferred that sensation, so after all that skilled Graham to be a biter,” she defined.

Wanting again on the second through which she discovered Graham was again with James, Raquel admitted to pondering it was a joke.

“My coronary heart dropped to my abdomen. There was an image of James strolling Graham, and I used to be like, ‘No.’ Instantly, my mother referred to as the foster who was working with Graham, and he or she mentioned, ‘Oh it’s so pretty, Lisa adopted him,’ and we had been like, ‘What?’” she recounted. “It’s simply so sick that they’re utilizing Graham as part of this storyline and to additional this villain narrative of mine.”

“So now the narrative is, I dumped my canine at a shelter and he was hours away of being euthanized, and that’s not true,” she added.

Raquel additionally mentioned she reached out to Lisa with considerations about Graham being in James’ care, solely to have Lisa pitch scenes for season 11.

“[I] defined that James isn’t a match canine dad or mum, and he or she simply was speaking concerning the potential scenes we might movie collectively. She was like, ‘Simply come again for one ultimate interview. You may come to Villa Rosa. You may apologize for leaving and disappearing,’” Raquel famous. “She didn’t ask me how I used to be. She didn’t ask me what I’ve been coping with for the reason that final time she noticed me on the reunion.”

“She nearly acquired me again, as a result of I did wanna share my facet of the story… And there was this hearth lit beneath me as a result of I used to be indignant that Graham was getting used as a pawn in all of this, [but] I actually do really feel like he was bait, to get me again,” she added.

Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 is predicted to premiere on Bravo someday later this 12 months or in early 2024.