Raquel Leviss gets grilled by Andy Cohen over the affair, Sandoval explodes on production during the reunion

Before we get to Raquel’s one-on-one with Andy, though, viewers caught her first Tom Sandoval in her trailer during a lunch break. Due to their restraining order, the two had to be filmed there Sheana Shaywhich required the couple to be 100 feet apart during the duration of filming.

Although Leviss had followed the events on a television monitor, Sandoval enlightened her about the high emotions in her.

“It’s tough out there,” Tom said after joining her. “I immediately got emotional and [James Kennedy] was literally exactly how I imagined it to be. He’s out of control. Scheana is totally submissive [Katie Maloney] because she wants to be back in the group. [Lala Kent] who literally doesn’t give a shit that either of us calls me a narcissist. They basically portray us as pathological liars.

“We know that’s not the case, we haven’t lied about anything other than this affair,” Leviss said, trying to calm him down. However, she then said she had some concerns about what she had seen so far, as she felt it sounded like Tom had “a solid relationship” with him Ariana Madix before the affair began. “Of course I only know what you tell me,” she added, “I have a feeling she wanted to continue the relationship because you never broke up with her.”

Sandoval said that was true “in a sense,” before warning Raquel that Madix would “let loose on you” when she eventually joined the rest of the group. “It just sucks because now my whole character is in question,” she said, calling the scandal her “wake-up call.”

With that, Tom dropped out before telling producers he was done for the moment and wanted a “proper break” where he and Raquel would not be filmed. However, one of the show’s producers declined, saying the cameras had to stay on when anyone was talking together – and saying they did the same with the rest of the cast.

“We have to take a break by law,” Tom said, as the producer said he could but wouldn’t spend time alone with Raquel. “I’m going to fucking turn around,” Sandoval cried, “this isn’t a joke. I need a break from filming. Stop filming me! I want to talk to her, I don’t want a camera in my “Fucking face!”

“I don’t feel relaxed, neither do you, we have to be careful what we say, we don’t want that. We’re in a very tricky situation right now!” he added before production seemed to slow down. Sandoval then rejoined the group on stage while filming continued without Raquel.

At one point, Sandoval accused Kennedy of getting aggressive at an event and slapping a woman on the butt – leading Ariana to exclaim, “You guys were just kidding my friends! You guys were just kidding her!” She also slammed Tom for dedicating songs to her at some of his performances while he was already “shagging other people”.

The conversation then moved to the restraining order against Scheana, which Raquel filed, alleging that Shay hit her after she found out about the affair. With Scheana reluctant to go into details due to the legal battle and Raquel not yet on stage, Andy asked Sandoval what he thinks happened.

“I was not there. I feel like I’m in a bind. The thing is, I don’t want to destroy my relationship with Scheana, but I want to tell the truth,” he said, as Ariana told him he actually wasn’t in a relationship with Scheana anymore.

“Scheana said, ‘I’m on the phone with Raquel right now, I’m going to give up and call you from mine,'” Madix claimed. “She said, ‘I pushed her,’ she never said ‘hit’.”

Sandoval, however, told a very different story, claiming that Scheana exclaimed, “I just punched that bitch in the face and threw her phone in the street.” He was adamant, saying he would “do a friggin’ lie detector” to prove it that he was telling the truth – even though Scheana told him to “shut the fuck up”.

Shay went on to tell Sandoval that they would never be friends again, before admitting she suspected something was going on between Raquel and Tom, even venturing it to Ariana. Madix, she said, told her she didn’t believe the rumors at the time were true because “neither of them would ever do that to her.”

Cohen then presented Scheana with some paperwork he received from Raquel during their one-on-one interview the day before the reunion. In a snippet of that conversation, Leviss said she “completely” regrets seeking the restraining order and claimed that she and her attorney would “take all steps to have the restraining order dropped.” The papers she gave Andy to give to Scheana were evidence of her request to cancel the upcoming court hearing.

“I’d rather she didn’t, we don’t need her around any of us,” Madix noted, before Lala said the whole ordeal “took its toll” on Shay. Then Scheana broke down in tears as she shared how emotional it was for her.

“To live through the past few weeks, particularly the betrayal of two of my best friends, is heartbreaking in itself,” she said, before pointing out how “ride or die” she and Ariana had been to Raquel before the affair.

“I did everything for her and her doing this to me took a lot out of me. I wasn’t able to fully be there for my daughter. My daughter sees me crying and starts crying, she starts hyperventilating.” the other day because she saw that I had a complete breakdown. It was a lot,” she said before collapsing again.

Watching Shay’s tears, Raquel told a producer in the trailer that she should have written Scheana a “personal message” after the scandal was exposed. “As things develop, there are more realizations and more regrets,” she added.

Back in the studio, Tom apologized to Scheana and said the situation was “quite out of control”. He said her deceit shouldn’t erase the 15-year friendship, saying he and Raquel “didn’t do so maliciously.” Madix was furious at this comment and yelled at him, “Be careful what you say now because it’s vicious!”

He tried to say they hadn’t embarked on the affair with “malicious intent” but Ariana didn’t hear it – she called him “disgusting” before a heated argument broke out between the former couple. Andy broke up and then sent Scheana away so Raquel could join them on stage, though he showed more of his one-on-one chat with Leviss before she exited.

In their conversation, Raquel said she was “a little nervous” about the reunion, but acknowledged that “it’s important that I’m here and taking responsibility for my actions and that’s why I’m here to do that.” She went on to say that while Tom has always been “someone who was close to me and had his fingers crossed for me,” things didn’t get romantic between them until around August 2022. “He made me feel heard and seen.” And those are feelings that maybe I’ve never really felt,” she added, confirming that she never felt that way about ex James either.

When Cohen asked her if she thought there would ever be a way forward with Ariana after she found out, she laughed and said there was. “I guess I was living in my own little reality, hoping it would work out,” she replied, before Cohen then wondered if she and Sandoval were telling each other that Madix was ignoring all the warning signs because she “didn’t want to know.” “. Something might have happened.

“It felt like that to me. She never pushed for it, she never confronted me about it. As far as I know from what Tom told me, she didn’t, she didn’t ask him too much about it, she just believed at face value what he was going to tell her,” Raquel said. That’s what it sounded like to Cohen , like you’re blaming Ariana for the affair.

“I think that was my mindset at the time. Now I know she really wanted to know and it was very deceitful. I’m very ashamed of it,” she said.

Leviss claimed that she and Tom planned to tell Ariana about the relationship, but the two “first wanted to clear up ‘our story.’ He felt like it would hurt her if she knew how long it had been like this,” she added when Andy asked if that meant the two were lying about how many months they were behind theirs would have snuck around on their backs. “Yes,” she replied, saying that she ultimately told Madix the truth when confronted with the affair.

“She thanked you for telling me because Tom would never have told me the truth,” she claimed Ariana told her. Raquel added that she was “terrified” of seeing Madix in person and “prepared for the worst and hoped for the best.”

Before Raquel finally left, Andy pointed out that she and Ariana had not seen each other in person since the affair was exposed. When asked what she thought about seeing Leviss, Madix replied, “Not great,” while Sandoval had no idea how she should feel. As she walked towards the stage, Tom Schwartz dropped a Xanax and offered it to the rest of the cast…while Ariana utterly refused to even look Raquel’s direction.

That ended the episode — although a preview of the third part of the reunion next week showed Ariana going for the jugular, the cast questioning the entire Raquel Schwartz dynamic, and Tom breaking down in tears as he says to Madix, ” I know that.” You hate me and that’s okay…but I want you to know that I will always love you.

“I can’t think of two worse people, I can’t,” Ariana replies.

The reunion continues next Wednesday on Bravo.