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With a model new season of the Bravo current on the horizon, Leviss kicked off her Rachel Goes Rogue podcast on Monday by first explaining why she chosen to not return to the gathering … sooner than moving into how points between her and Tom Sandoval allegedly began.

“I don’t must be with Tom and I’ve made the selection to cut Tom out of my life,” she talked about of why she turned down Season 11. “Going once more to do the current, it’d drive me to work along with him … and I do know I’m on the outskirts with all the other cast, so I might not get my story all through.”

“I really think about the ladies wouldn’t give me the time of day to let me converse in confidence to them, given my earlier historic previous with my interactions with them,” she added, sooner than saying that she did take into consideration returning whereas she was in remedy for her psychological properly being after the scandal blew up.

“I had develop to be the worst mannequin of myself by the use of the 7 months of secrecy, deception and going along with these lies that ate me up. And part of that’s my fault … and it was a extraordinarily harmful choice,” she talked about. “Nonetheless I was nonetheless in relationship with Tom, we had been talking on the cellphone after I went in for remedy and in these months I was in there, I was debating whether or not or not or to not do the current.”

In the end, she felt she was watching “the worst mannequin” of herself when revisiting Season 10 and now believes she “made the suitable selection by leaving.” That being talked about, she’s going to proceed to look at — and react to what she sees on her podcast.

Later inside the episode, her podcast cohosts puzzled who made the first switch between her and Sandoval. That led to Leviss detailing their first hookup, leaving that reply up for them to find out.

Very like how Sandoval outlined it, she talked about the two went out for drinks at The Abbey in West Hollywood, sooner than she equipped to supply him a journey home. As quickly as there, he invited her in for a nightcap, whereas Ariana Madix slept upstairs. He wound up being locked out of the home, so that they went spherical to the once more of the house to try to find one different method in.

“We go inside the once more, and the sliding door shouldn’t be unlocked, so he was like, ‘Properly, we now have the fireside pit proper right here,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, the fireside pit’s cool, we’re capable of merely maintain talking,’” she recalled. “We acquired the fireside pit going, we’re chatting, after which he goes, ‘You already know what the easiest issue about this pool is? That it’s heated.’”

They decided to go on, with Rachel saying, “I took my jeans off, and I had this corset prime on, so I left that on, and I was in my underwear, and I went in his pool and it was heated.”

Sandoval, she talked about, was in merely his boxers and whereas they’d been initially swimming on reverse sides of the pool, he came to visit to her to tell her to indicate down the music she was collaborating in from her cellphone.

“After which checked out me a positive method after which he grabbed me, spun me and kissed me and I was like shocked nevertheless like happy,” she talked about, sooner than cringing at herself by saying, “Ugh, so harmful, so embarrassing.”

“I knew it was flawed, Tom knew it was flawed. Correct after Tom kissed me, he like sat on the stair of the pool and he was like, fingers on his face, his ideas might want to have been working a million miles a minute, contemplating what to do,” she continued.

In accordance with Rachel, she talked about she must go away and started to decorate, sooner than he knowledgeable her to sit down down down whereas he thought points over.

“Cling on, I merely should assume for a second. I merely have no idea what to do correct now on account of I really akin to you,” she talked about he knowledgeable her, sooner than she talked about she’d actually really feel additional comfortable talking it out in her vehicle than in his yard. As quickly as there, they linked.

When requested by her cohosts whether or not or not they did “each half,” Leviss responded by saying, “It was very harmful.”

The two would proceed to see each other in secret, all whereas Sandoval and Madix lived collectively. The affair was uncovered in March 2023, bringing in a rankings enhance for Vanderpump Pointers and an end to Tom and Ariana’s relationship.

Explaining why she decided to do a podcast after strolling away from Vanderpump Pointers, Leviss talked about she knew she was as quickly as as soon as extra opening up the door to “scrutiny and judgement.” She, nonetheless, felt like she was “obligated for myself to face up for myself.”

She added, “I would considerably converse my truth and share my story and be ridiculed for it than sit idly by and watch this whole season pan out and by no means get my story all through. That’s the reason I’m doing my podcast. I’m really scared, I’m really nervous.”

Season 11 of Vanderpump Pointers premieres January 30 at 8pm ET on Bravo.