Vanderpump Guidelines star Raquel Leviss is seen for the FIRST TIME since launch from psychological well being facility and explosive Scandoval reunion – as somber star dons ‘Be A Good Individual cap’ for household go to amid dramatic season 11 negotiations

Troubled Vanderpump Rules star Raquel Leviss — who not too long ago modified her identify to Rachel Leviss — has been seen for the primary time since leaving a psychological well being therapy facility in Arizona.

The 28-year-old reality TV star was seen strolling on her personal as she saved her head down after visiting household in Tucson.

The brunette tried to maintain a low profile as she pulled down a cap that learn ‘Be A Good Individual’ down over her eyes as she went make-up free.

The star additionally ditched any shred of glamor by carrying a beige-and-white striped males’s button-down shirt over a print shirt with black shorts and white sneakers.

Leviss checked into the ability in mid April and checked out earlier this month.

She sought assist on the facility amid stress from the tough criticism over her affair with co-star Tom Sandoval whereas he was relationship Ariana Madix, his girlfriend of 9 years.

Noticed: Troubled Vanderpump Guidelines star Raquel Leviss — who not too long ago modified her identify to Rachel Leviss — has been seen for the primary time since leaving a psychological well being therapy facility in Arizona. The 28-year-old actuality TV star was seen strolling on her personal as she saved her head down after visiting household in Tucson

‘Be a Good Individual’: The brunette tried to maintain a low profile as she pulled down a cap that learn Be A Good Individual down over her eyes as she went make-up free

It will likely be a tough street forward for Leviss as she is required to return to the fact TV present that precipitated her emotional misery that put her within the facility.

Based on TMZ, Leviss is sure by an current contract that requires her to return for season 11.

An inside supply had beforehand revealed that the star wished ‘to get as a lot cash as she presumably can so she is enjoying hardball’ with the community earlier than agreeing to return for Season 11. ‘For the fitting value, she will likely be there,’ the insider mentioned.

However her rep has argued that she is just returning as a result of she is beneath contract.

Bravo can all the time say no to a elevate and nonetheless make her seem on the hit Bravo collection, it was alleged. However she might get out of returning to VR if a physician mentioned it was not good for her well being.

The affair was uncovered in March and by April Leviss was within the facility. 

A supply instructed ET: ‘Raquel and her household determined earlier than the connection was found that she would enter a voluntary facility for psychological well being counseling.

‘She was scheduled to go in pre-reunion however determined she wished to complete her filming dedication. Bravo and manufacturing have been conscious and in help of her journey in direction of higher psychological well being.

Leviss’ rep added that she was not in a facility for substance abuse points. 

In March Leviss issued an announcement by which she revealed she was analyzing her personal habits and chatting with a counselor after the affair was uncovered.

She mentioned: ‘I’m reflecting on my selections, chatting with a counselor and I’m studying issues about myself corresponding to my patterns of codependency and habit to being and feeling beloved.

‘I’ve sought emotional validation via intimate connections that aren’t wholesome with out regard for my very own well-being, typically negatively affecting others and infrequently prioritizing the intimate connection over my friendships. I’m taking steps to grasp my habits and make more healthy selections.’

This comes after Sandoval revealed he and Leviss had damaged up.

Low-key: The star additionally ditched any shred of glamor by carrying a beige-and-white striped males’s button-down shirt over a print shirt with black shorts and white sneakers

Looking for assist: Leviss checked into the ability in mid April and checked out earlier this month

Following the current finish of his nine-year relationship with Madix over his infidelity, the bar proprietor revealed they’re ‘sort of taking a break.’

‘We’re not placing any label on it,’ the fact star mentioned on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast.

When requested in the event that they have been nonetheless buddies ‘with advantages’ by the comic, 67, Sandoval denied they have been nonetheless romantically concerned.

‘Not proper now,’ the rocker, who’s within the cowl band Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras, instructed listeners, after insisting he and the previous pageant queen are nonetheless ‘good buddies.’ 

As for a way their relationship blossomed from platonic to intimate, Sandoval opened up about his attraction to Leviss as he and Madix, 37, drifted aside after almost a decade collectively.

‘We have been at my home, and I am locked out of my home and we’re speaking and we kissed,’ he recalled. ‘It was magnetic. We have been shifting nearer and as we have been speaking, time went on, and we’re speaking nearer and nearer and nearer, and swiftly, we’re kissing. I felt one thing that I hadn’t felt in so lengthy, like, emotionally.’

He went on to elucidate how he and Madix had begun residing their very own lives and the romance between them had grown stale. 

‘We had been collectively for 9 years, and clearly we had constructed a home and enterprise collectively and every part. We have been a model. And like many relationships, it turned extra of a greatest buddy/household/typically roommates state of affairs,’ he defined.

The Missouri native mentioned their relationship total was  ‘simply missing intimacy’ and ‘connection.’

He felt that they have been remaining collectively to ‘hold the optics up that [they] have been strong’ for his or her actuality present and different enterprise endeavors. 

‘We did have one another’s backs, for positive, and that was good. There was a security to it and a stability,’ he mentioned of Madix. 

Forward of turning 40, he recalled pondering his life ‘regarded very bleak’ and began pondering his ‘greatest years have been behind.’

‘I began to lose my optimism in life and my drive. I felt like I wanted to make a change to really feel alive once more, to really feel motivated, to really feel optimistic once more,’ Sandoval confessed.

Love triangle: The fact star, 28. whose affair with Sandoval, 39, ended his nine-year romance with Ariana Madix, 37, selected to enter the voluntary facility earlier than her fling was found (pictured November 2022)

A supply mentioned: ‘Raquel and her household determined earlier than the connection was found that she would enter a voluntary facility for psychological well being counseling’; seen with Madix (left)

Betrayal’ Sandoval and Madix pictured simply days earlier than the March break up

Earlier than his affair, he mentioned his ‘confidence was zapped’ and any sexual expertise with him can be the equal to hooking up with ‘a 19-year-old’ throughout ‘his second time’ as he misplaced his ‘recreation.’

‘I am not saying it is [Ariana’s] fault, we simply did not have that intimacy,’ Sandoval claimed.

After listening to his visitor’s aspect, Mandel urged followers to have ’empathy and compassion’ for Sandoval, who beforehand mentioned he felt like ‘one of the hated folks in America’ for betraying Madix. 

‘That you must be heard as a result of the narrative is everybody else’s however however yours,’ the America’s Acquired Expertise choose instructed listeners. ‘I do not perceive the hatred and the vitriol.’

Whereas the father-of-three said he wasn’t ‘condoning dishonest on a accomplice,’ he raised eyebrows for saying that the quantity of backlash Sandoval has obtained has been perplexing. 

Madix admitted to being ‘devastated and damaged’ however grateful for her supporters in a submit final month.

The fact star took to Instagram to share a surprising snap of herself with a prolonged caption addressing the scandal whereas thanking her buddies together with her castmates for his or her help throughout what she described as her ‘darkest hours.’

She wrote: ‘hello. the place to start? i need to specific my most honest gratitude for the outpouring of affection and help i’ve obtained from buddies, household, and other people i’ve by no means even met within the final two weeks.

‘when i’ve felt like i could not even stand, you all have given me the energy to proceed and seen me via my darkest hours. to say i’ve been devastated and damaged is an understatement. nevertheless, i do know that i’m not on this alone.’

As a lot of her Vanderpump Guidelines co-stars of the previous and current have publicly supported her together with Scheana Shay, Kristen Doute, and even Leviss’ ex James Kennedy, she made positive to thank those that have been there for her.

Madix continued: so a lot of my closest buddies are additionally grieving this loss proper now and reeling from this betrayal on so many ranges. i’m so f***ing fortunate to have the most effective help system on this planet and that i hope i can repay each single individual for the love you’ve got proven me.

‘what does not kill me higher run. love, ariana’

Sandoval, who can be enterprise companions with Leviss’ love curiosity Tom Schwartz, wrote on his Instagram that his costar solely realized of his infidelity ‘very not too long ago’ and ‘didn’t condone’ his actions.

On March 11, Sandoval apologized for dishonest on Ariana Madix with Leviss on social media. He vowed to ‘mirror and work on myself’ in wake of the infidelity.

He then requested his followers to not take out their anger on his enterprise accomplice Tom Schwartz, in addition to his household and buddies.

‘Hey, I totally perceive and deserve ur anger & disappointment in direction of me, however please depart Schwartz, my buddies, and household out of this case…’ he wrote.

Nonetheless buddies: Following the current finish of his nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix over his infidelity, the 39-year-old bar proprietor revealed they’re ‘sort of taking a break’

He continued: ‘This was a really private factor. Additionally, Schwartz & Sandy’s may need my identify on it, but in addition there are 3 different companions and 20 workers, who particularly depend on the restaurant for revenue for them and their households,’ Sandoval mentioned, nodding to his new bar and TomTom, which opened again in 2018. 

A supply not too long ago knowledgeable Web page Six that Sandoval and Leviss had been which means to tell Madix concerning the affair ‘for weeks.’

They waited so lengthy, although, that Madix wound up discovering their secret herself when she found Leviss’ texts on Sandoval’s cellphone. Insiders claimed that Madix caught sight of a raunchy selfie video from Leviss on Sandoval’s cellphone whereas she was on the live performance venue. Upon inspecting his texts, she noticed that Sandoval and Leviss had been corresponding in a means Folks described as ‘inappropriate.’

Sandoval and Madix reportedly met up the Friday after she realized of the affair and had a dramatic confrontation about their break up in entrance of Vanderpump Guidelines cameras, as reported by TMZ.

A manufacturing supply instructed DailyMail.com: ‘There’s extra to this story that will likely be revealed within the coming weeks however all just isn’t what it appears, nevertheless, it’s true that Tom and Raquel have been hooking up.

‘We should always change the identify of the present to Raquel Guidelines as she has actually grow to be the star of the present this season, giving it her all. The solid ought to be thanking Raquel and Tom as Bravo are already speaking about renewing the present for an eleventh season. That is the mess that viewers dwell for.’

‘Manufacturing has switched the cameras again on and they’re catching all the fall out because the solid react to this information. This would be the greatest season of Vanderpump Guidelines but.

A supply instructed Folks the affair ‘has been occurring for upwards of six months – all of the whereas, Tom was sleeping subsequent to Ariana in mattress. She was fully blindsided by this; devastated does not even scratch the floor of how she feels.’

The insider added: ‘That is somebody she thought she knew; somebody she deliberate to spend the remainder of her life with. You possibly can’t even put into phrases that betrayal.’