Rachel “Raquel” Leviss revealed her ideas on James Kennedy‘s future with girlfriend Ally Lewber throughout an episode of her podcast final week.
Days after the premiere episode of Vanderpump Guidelines, Raquel, 29, spoke of James, 32, and Ally, 27, as she shared if she believes her former fiancé can have wholesome relationships, addressed a remark Tom Sandoval, 41, just lately made about her on a podcast, and admitted to feeling FOMO (Concern of Lacking Out) amid season 11.
“We’ll see,” Raquel replied after being requested if James and Ally would final on the February 1 episode of Rachel Goes Rogue. “I believe Ally is a really affected person particular person. She jogs my memory plenty of me, and I believe there’s a motive in her to assist. And I believe time will inform. He’s older now. He has extra life expertise. However it doesn’t appear to be there’s plenty of progress there. So we’ll see.”
Raquel appears to be anxious that Ally isn’t in love with James, however relatively the thought of a future with him.
“My recommendation to Ally could be don’t fall in love with the potential of someone since you’re going to be let down. And you may simply concentrate on your self and actually develop your self in order that at some point yow will discover somebody who’s on that very same stage and has finished the identical quantity of therapeutic so there’s a wholesome relationship,” she shared.
In line with Raquel, she’s in a unique place than she was when she dated James, and when she engaged in a months-long affair with Sandoval behind the again of his then-girlfriend and her then-friend, Ariana Madix, 38, as a result of she’s finished “plenty of remedy. Like, intense, intense remedy.”
“I’ve finished plenty of reflecting on my patterns and my relationships and searching on the issues with James after which taking a look at that relationship with Tom and seeing what was overlapping,” she defined. “For me, this affair, it was sort of manifesting otherwise. Like, I didn’t see the similarities once I was in it, however as I’ve been in a position to take a step again and look extra clearly at it, I can see it for what it’s. Prefer it was that potential. Like I used to be in love with the potential of us having an actual relationship out within the open and never in secrecy. And I didn’t even see that as a sample till I used to be in a position to take away myself from the scenario completely.”
Though Raquel is now not in communication with Sandoval, she did hear what he stated about her throughout his look on Nick Viall‘s podcast final month.
“I hated what he stated. He stated somebody like Raquel, some 20-something-year-old doing that whipped cream bikini factor like Varsity Blues. And I’m like, ‘Okay, what is that this reference?’ And I YouTubed it and was like, ‘Oh my gosh, like, what?’ And we’ve already talked about it on my podcast how this got here to be, our first moments that actually shifted the dynamics into one thing extra of a love connection if you happen to may even name it a love connection. However the best way that he was describing it actually made it sound like I used to be the temptress and that it was this seduction that he fell into,” she revealed. “I can take possession of my half in that as a result of, yeah, it was a alternative that we made on daily basis. And it was a extremely unhealthy choice, nevertheless it simply felt like he was placing quite a bit on me saying it was my fault for seducing him, which I don’t suppose is true.”
Although Sandoval seems to have moved on from their sordid romance with mannequin Victoria Lee Robinson, 31, Raquel believes Sandoval nonetheless has work to do on himself.
“If he bought good remedy and a few introspection, he would come to the conclusion that your self-worth isn’t based mostly in your important different,” she famous. “You may’t get your self-worth from someone else. It has to return from inside you.”
Raquel additionally questions James’ skill to have wholesome relationships.
“I don’t suppose that that’s a wholesome relationship,” she stated of his romance with Ally. “I don’t suppose any relationship with James is wholesome, particularly understanding that we broke up and he bought with someone else so rapidly after. There’s no time to essentially replicate on your self in a span of three weeks or 4 weeks, nevertheless lengthy it was. The identical issues, only a totally different particular person.”
Simply speaking about James made Raquel admittedly “anxious” and “nervous” as a result of feelings she was feeling about their previous relationship — and his present life with Ally.
“That was my fiancé. That was someone that I assumed I used to be going to spend my life with. And we have been taking a look at homes that had a pool. And we have been able to take that subsequent step. And right here he’s on this new home with a pool and a yard,” she shared, additionally noting, “I simply thought it was humorous that an airplane, like, they’re in a fly-over zone … I loved that.”
As for season 11, Raquel confessed to feeling “a little bit FOMO” after quitting the present final 12 months.
“I can personal that, however I don’t know. Because it went on, I simply saved pondering, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so pleased that I’m not a part of this,’” she added.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
