Rachel Leviss recalled processing the trauma of being recorded masturbating by Tom Sandoval without her consent.
The former beauty pageant contestant detailed both the deceit from the man she was in love with and how Sandoval tried to manipulate her legal team.
Rachel’s Sandoval trauma:
On an episode of the Rachel Goes Rogue podcast, the former Vanderpump Rules personality recalled how she processed one of the many traumas that came as a result of her Scandoval affair with Ariana Madix‘s former life partner.
“I’m just thinking back to the moment for me at The Meadows because it took me a while to process Tom recording me without knowing.”
“It was so chaotic that I didn’t have the ability to process what just happened … like survival mode.”
“It wasn’t until I had my one on one trauma therapy sessions in the Meadows that I was able to really start decompressing what he did and how he violated a personal boundary.”
Rachel told Sandoval about her trauma. “I remember telling him on the phone after processing it, ‘I don’t think that I will be able to forgive you for this.'”
Tom’s manipulation:
“Then a week later, he’s trying to get me to hire his lawyer and fire my lawyer. He a slip up and he said, ‘The last thing we need you to do right now is go rogue.'”
Rachel realized as she deals with trauma, Sandoval is still trying to manipulate her.
“So, I processed that in itself – I did art therapy, and I painted out that in conversation. I had this fantasy of calling him and being like, ‘I’ve gone rogue’ and just hang up. And kind of, like, do that power move. My therapist is like, ‘Well, we’re not gonna do that.'”
“But, I guess my question is – it OK not to forgive somebody?” asked the VPR alum to her guest, a mental health professional.
Bravo TV fans react to Rachel’s Sandoval trauma:
- I don’t understand how someone can be friends with Tom after he recorded her without her consent?!
- Did Rachel care about how Ariana was feeling when she had sex with Tom in the car right outside the home?
- People are not giving enough attention to the fact that he recorded her without her knowledge. It’s so creepy.
- He was so in hopes the love bombing would keep her quiet. Nope. This whole relationship was so ugly and toxic
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