Stassi Schroeder believes Raquel Leviss‘ story concerning the threats Tom Sandoval allegedly made towards manufacturing amid the Vanderpump Guidelines season 10 finale.
Days after Raquel, 28, revealed on Bethenny Frankel‘s podcast that Sandoval, 40, pressured their movie crew to chop a scene through which she confronted him about filming an NSFW FaceTime session with out her consent, Stassi, 35, regarded again on her personal experiences with manufacturing “[covering] for the dudes” as she and her feminine co-stars have been pressured to deal with their “darkish” conduct.
“She requested about [the NSFW video] and he mentioned, ‘I wished you to see how lovely [you] regarded,’ after which after the scene wrapped, the truth that he acquired mad and mentioned, ‘Why did you say that to me on digicam? You’re gonna make me look unhealthy,’” Stassi informed listeners on the newest episode of Straight Up With Stassi shared by Bravo Snark Facet on Instagram on August 23. “After which [he] went and threatened manufacturing and mentioned, ‘I received’t movie anymore except you’re taking that out,’ they usually did. And so they did!”
In keeping with Stassi, who was fired from Pump Guidelines resulting from racially-charged conduct in June 2020, the truth that manufacturing agreed to take away the second from the episode damage girls in every single place.
“I used to be similar to, ‘Come on. We’re nonetheless doing this sh*t?’” she requested.
Trying again on the eight years she spent on the truth present, Stassi mentioned manufacturing regularly had the backs of male solid members.
“There have been so many instances that I bear in mind crying to producers and being like, ‘You guys have coated for sure those that have carried out actually darkish issues, males, that I can’t even be in the identical room as a few of these males,’” she recalled.
Though Stassi acquired much less screentime due to her refusal to spend time with sure members of the present, she was prepared to chop again if it meant defending herself from them.
Issues acquired so unhealthy, in truth, that Stassi truly thought-about going public together with her complaints.
“I used to be like, ‘Would I ever wanna go public with this kind of factor?’ And I used to be like, ‘No,’ as a result of I wouldn’t need to damage everybody’s jobs. I wouldn’t need to shut down a present that it’s not simply the solid. It’s the crew. It’s producers. There are such a lot of those that work on it and adore it. It’ll trickle all the way down to so many individuals that I’m like, ‘I’m more durable than this. I can heal by myself.’ And I did,” she defined.
Whereas Stassi is years faraway from Pump Guidelines, she mentioned she isn’t the one feminine solid member who skilled poor remedy by their movie crew as she backed Raquel’s claims about Sandoval.
“There are such a lot of different feminine solid members on Vanderpump Guidelines who’ve gone by the identical factor the place manufacturing has coated for the dudes and we’ve simply needed to heal ourselves. In order that was a straight-up reality I do know that Rachel informed as a result of it’s occurred earlier than and the truth that Sandoval was capable of similar to get away with it once more was simply, ‘F*ck,’” she acknowledged.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 is at the moment in manufacturing and anticipated to premiere on Bravo someday later this yr or early subsequent yr.
