Raquel Leviss is finally saying goodbye to former lover Tom Sandoval once and for all, after their Scandoval affair made international headlines.
The Vanderpump Rules star, who is celebrating her 29th birthday this week, revealed on her Instagram stories that she’s blocked the rocker after he sent her a public birthday message.
After she shared a video of a flower farm she visited, he commented: “Happy birthday Rachel, I really hope ur (sic) finding peach and happiness. Miss u friend.”
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She shared a picture of his blocked profile on her Instagram stories and commented: “OK bye!”
Leviss, who now goes by the name Rachel, also updated her Instagram bio to read that she’s in her ‘healing era’.
“I’ve been dreaming of a place like this,” her flower farm video was captioned.
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Last month, Leviss broke her silence on the Scandoval affair in an interview with Bethenny Frankel on her Just B with Bethenny Frankel podcast.
Her appearance on the show came after Leviss spent time in a treatment facility after her affair with best friend Ariana Madix’s boyfriend of nine years Sandoval, 40.
Leviss said she was glad she had the chance to tell her side of the story and said she has been portrayed as the “ultimate villain”.
“I feel like I’ve been portrayed as the ultimate villain. My mistakes that I’ve made on camera live on forever,” Leviss said.
“Reality TV is edited, it is contrived to create a certain storyline. So it’s not all factual.
“But I do want to acknowledge the hurt I brought to a lot of people. I was completely wrapped up in heartbreak and wanting to get certain needs met,” she explained.”
“I was still healing from a relationship from somebody I thought I was going to marry.”
She insisted that she was never “best friends” with Madix, 38, but does feel bad for “hurting her” with the affair.
“Ariana and I were not best friends, we were acquaintances who became friends on the show. It’s painful to think I’ve hurt her in this way… I don’t expect her to forgive me,” Leviss said.
She hinted there was trouble in paradise between Madix and Sandoval long before they had an affair.
“I would not be involved in this affair, secrecy type situation if I thought there was longevity in this relationship between Tom and Ariana.”
“The people closest to them can see their relationship has not been what they portray on camera. Tom always told me they’re a brand, they’re an image… They’re business partners.”
News broke in March the ex-power couple had parted ways after Sandoval cheated on Madix with her close friend Raquel, who is also their Vanderpump Rules castmate.
All three have been regular cast members for almost a decade. The former couple were notably the show’s most stable couple for all nine years of their relationship.
Leviss joined the series in its sixth season in 2016, and was dating series regular James Kennedy. They got engaged in 2021, and were affianced for seven months before splitting in December 2021.
Weeks after the cheating scandal broke, Sandoval broke his silence. When asked by paparazzi if he would change anything if he could go back in time, he noted, per ET, that he could have handled things better – and said, “Hindsight’s always 20/20 man.”
He then took to Instagram with an apology, urging fans to not take out their anger on his friends and castmates – namely Tom Schwartz, his best friend and business partner.
To fans, that was confirmation Sandoval had cheated on Madix, though he didn’t address her or apologise to her publicly until three days later, when he wrote on Instagram: “I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that hurt somebody I love. No one deserves to feel that pain so traumatically and publicly.”
Madix, at this stage, had deleted her social media accounts, though she eventually returned to Instagram on March 16 with a photo of herself on holiday in Mexico, where she wrote a lengthy statement addressing the drama.
“To say I have been devastated and broken is an understatement. However, I know that I am not in this alone. So many of my closest friends are also grieving this loss right now and reeling from this betrayal on so many levels,” she said.
Leviss, meanwhile, issued an apology via Instagram on March 9, saying she was sorry “for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and my friends and fans”, and calling the circumstances of her relationship with Sandoval “indefensible”.
In the final episode of Season 10, Sandoval confirmed the affair had been going on for seven months.