Rachel Leviss continues to go rogue! Once the Scandoval news broke, Season 10 of Vanderpump Rules took on a different light. One example is a makeout session between Rachel and castmate Tom Schwartz.
Once we all knew that Rachel and Tom Sandoval had been carrying on a seven-month-long affair, the kiss seemed even more salacious. Now Rachel is breaking her silence on the matter and of course, there’s much more to it than fans originally thought.
A planted seed led to Rachel and Tom Schwartz’s kiss
On an episode of her new podcast, Rachel Goes Rogue, Rachel revealed that the kiss was “part of our inside joke.” The joke was that fans had been speculating for months that Rachel and Schwartz hooked up at Coachella.
Once the gossip mill started churning, Rachel said “a little seed [was] planted in my head that, oh, like, that could be a fun storyline for Season 10 and because we’re both single, and so when I made that move, he turned it down, and I was like, ‘Okay, that’s that.’ Like, I’m not going to try again because it was stupid to begin with it and he clearly wasn’t into it.”
On the show, the kiss rubbed Schwartz’s ex-wife Katie Maloney the wrong way. Which came as no surprise to fans. Especially since Rachel noted that Katie “set a boundary, saying if you do anything with Schwartz, I’m not going to be able to have a friendship with you.”
But instead of heeding Katie’s warning, Rachel kissed Schwartz at Scheana Shay’s wedding in Mexico. Thanks to the prompting of VPR producers. Rachel told listeners that producers reminded her that they were “making a reality TV show.”
The former SURver continued, “I have a feeling that either producers got into Schwartz’s ear saying, ‘Oh, you should make out with Raquel.’ He got some pressure somewhere to make out with me and put a move on me.”
“Definitely staged and definitely produced”
Rachel went on to say that the kiss was “definitely staged and definitely produced.” And had the feeling that Schwartz got the “go ahead with Sandoval to kiss me because I don’t think he would do it without Sandoval being okay with it.”
Furthermore, Rachel revealed that when they did kiss, “both of us knowing that I had a thing with Sandoval.” And apparently, Sandoval “was in on it and definitely okay with it.”
To make matters even more twisted, Rachel shared that Schwartz was fully aware of her affair with Sandoval “since the very beginning.”
She explained, “I got a phone call from Tom the next morning after we hooked up for the first time, and my mind was racing. I was feeling so much guilt and shame about it. And I finally got a phone call from Sandoval and he was at Schwartz’s apartment when he called me, and that was like a safe space for him.”
Rachel concluded, “And so Schwartz knew before we even had a conversation to talk about it and what the game plan was going to be, because immediately I was going to film with Ariana [Madix] and our group of girls that night.”
Vanderpump Rules returns to Bravo on Tuesday, January 30 at 8/7c.
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