Rachel Leviss is going rouge… and (once again) going off about some of her former castmates.
On the latest episode of her Rachel Goes Rogue podcast, the former Vanderpump Rules star spoke about her time on the Bravo series– as she does nearly every episode– by answering questions submitted to her by listeners. During the Q&A, several fans asked Rachel to weigh in on her relationships with her former friends and castmates Ariana Madix and Scheana Shay.
Rachel claimed that Ariana’s actions at the reunion– which was filmed just weeks after Ariana learned about Rachel and Sandoval’s under-wraps “Scandoval” romance– “propelled more hate” towards her from the public at a time when she was already receiving a lot of backlash.
“It just is very telling to [Ariana’s] character,” Rachel said.
(As fans of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ likely remember, it was revealed in March 2023 that Rachel and Tom Sandoval had engaged in a months-long affair behind everyone’s back, including Ariana–Sandoval’s girlfriend of nearly a decade. Since Scandoval broke, Ariana has remained booked and busy in the months (and now year+), appearing in Chicago on Broadway, competing on Dancing with the Stars, nabbing a gig as the host of Love Island: USA and banking more than $1 million in brand deals, etc.
When asked by a listener this week if she believes Scandoval is responsible for launching Ariana’s career, Rachel put her former pageant skills to work by formulating kind (yet backhanded) response.
“Honestly, I’m really happy that Ariana is living out her dreams,” Rachel said. “She’s always wanted to be on Broadway [and] I mean, who doesn’t want to be on ‘Dancing with the Stars?’ That’s incredible. And she has always been obsessed with ‘Love Island,’ so the fact that she’s a host of ‘Love Island’ is pretty epic.
“I’m just happy that Scandoval was able to really launch her in the direction that she’s always dreamed of,” Rachel continued. “I think the part that irks me the most is the way she went out of her way to dehumanize me at the [Season 10] reunion … .”
Rachel was also asked on Tuesday’s podcast if she would speak to her former pal Scheana if the two were ever to run into each other, to which she replied, “no, no, no, no.”
“I have run into Scheana, like, twice and I don’t have a desire to speak to her and clearly she doesn’t have a desire to speak to me,” Rachel said. “So that’s not gonna happen.”
As ‘Vanderpump Rules’ fans may recall, Scheana and Rachel were in New York City together in March 2023 to film an episode of Watch What Happens Live when Ariana found out about Scandoval. Rachel alleged that after she and Scheana finished filming, Scheana punched her in the face– an allegation that Scheana’s attorney denied from the start. Rachel went on to file a restraining order against her former co-star, which was eventually dropped.
Rachel confirmed this week that Scheana is no longer someone she wishes to be friends with.
“I just don’t think that there’s any type of conversation that I can even comprehend, because there’s no point in having a productive conversation with somebody that you don’t want to have a friendship with anymore,” she said. “[I have] no desire to reconcile with Scheana.”
On this week’s episode, Rachel also responded to a fan who wanted to know why Rachel is “so damn invested” in ‘Vanderpump Rules.’ While Rachel acknowledged that the show is often a topic of conversation on Rachel Goes Rogue, she insists that she doesn’t speak about her former employer outside of recording her podcast.
“ … Basically an hour out of my week, I talk about ‘Vanderpump [Rules]’,” she said. “I’m a very busy person. I have a lot of other things going on in my life. Right now, I like to keep it confidential because after sharing my entire life on the show for so many years, I feel like my personal life is now sacred to me and I will pick and choose what I share with the broader audience.”
Rachel went on to claim that she understands how those listening to her podcast would get the impression that she’s “still very hung up” on the show and incapable of moving on from it, but she maintains that’s not the case.
“The reason why I talk about it is because I feel like I’ve learned a lot from the time that I was on the show to taking a year off the show and not returning back,” Rachel said. “ … Long story short, I just want to reassure you guys that this is not my whole life and I’m doing good and [I’m] healthy.
“Oh, also, I don’t know if I’ll really be able to move on until after the court case is resolved anyway,” she added.
