Raquel “Rachel” Leviss slammed Lisa Vanderpump for calling her revenge porn lawsuit against Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix “ridiculous.”
On Monday’s episode of Leviss’ “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast, the “Vanderpump Rules” alum criticized her former boss for “victim-shaming” her and spreading “propaganda” about her in the press.
“Immediately, I was like, ‘Oh, she didn’t read the brief,’” Leviss explained. “But then, you know, insiders told me like, ‘Oh no, she knows exactly what she’s doing.’ She’s saying this statement for the press to pick up this certain story.”
Earlier this week, Vanderpump told TMZ that Leviss’s filing was “ridiculous” and that you shouldn’t send explicit videos to “your best friend’s boyfriend” if you don’t “want to have somebody share your porn.”
However, Vanderpump was unaware that Sandoval allegedly recorded the former beauty pageant queen performing a solo sexual act — which Madix, 38, allegedly shared with the rest of the cast — without her consent.
“Obviously, you guys know, the lawsuit is not about me sending a video. This video was recorded,” Leviss explained. “It was a FaceTime video that I did not know was being recorded and I wasn’t aware this video existed until it was sent to me.”
Although she and Vanderpump were never “super tight,” Leviss admitted that it “doesn’t feel good” watching her former employer say such “disappointing and hurtful” things about a “sensitive” topic.
“It took a long time to really decide if I’m going to press charges or not. And I felt like it was important to bring this up,” she explained.
“My privacy was violated in a very intimate and unsuspecting way, and it…
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