In three days it’s the one year anniversary of Scandoval. On March 3rd, 2023 everything in the Bravoverse shifted and life was never the same.
Today, Raquel Leviss is suing Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix for eavesdropping, invasion of privacy, emotional distress and revenge porn.
Let’s break this down a bit…
Raquel is suing Tom and a bunch of ‘John & Jan Does’ for eavesdropping and privacy, but she is suing Ariana for the revenge porn. I’m sorry… the last time I checked it was Tom who allegedly recorded Raquel without her consent, so why isn’t Tom being sued for revenge porn? Apparently because Ariana is the one who distributed it, when that has been debunked.
If Tom did in fact record her without her consent then yes, Raquel has a case. But then why she didn’t do this back in March 2023? Why did it take so long to bring this lawsuit forward? It seems that Raquel is having FOMO; Tom is on a really bad apology tour, Ariana is on Broadway, and Raquel hasn’t been able to cash in on the scandal that she caused.
Revenge porn aside, that’s not the part of the lawsuit that I have issue with. Raquel is claiming emotional distress…
Emotional distress? Raquel had an affair, it was exposed, and now she’s continually blaming other people? She is just as bad as Sandoval. Further in the lawsuit it says that Raquel being exposed to a ‘public skewering’ that lead her to seek mental health treatment. This is the issue I’ve had since Raquel went into hiding… she made the decision to have an affair and claimed it caused mental health issues. I don’t feel bad for people who cause their own problems and then cry about it. If she didn’t want to be labeled a home wrecker, she shouldn’t have wrecked a home.
The theme this week is that people on Bravo can’t seem to take accountability for their actions and the consequences that come with it.
“It is clear that Bravo deliberately sacrificed Leviss for the sake of its commercial interests from its refusal to allow her the opportunity to tell her side of the story and defend herself, which she repeatedly begged for permission to do.” says the lawsuit.
I’m sorry… what? Raquel had a sit down with Andy, she was on the reunion, and was invited back to film confessionals after the reunion ended. How is that not having the chance to defend herself? She was just really bad at defending herself! Do her lawyers not realize everything is on tape?
It seems that Raquel is so comfortable making such large accusations and using the courts to fight battles she isn’t going to win. She abused the legal system last year with the restraining order against Scheana…and then didn’t even show up to court to fight it. She’s doing it again now.
When Raquel didn’t want to come back to the show, I respected it. Let her go and live her life away from the drama (the drama she created, by the way). However, when she went on Bethenny’s podcast, when she released her own podcast, and now this lawsuit, she proved that she doesn’t want to live a normal life.
She wants to be famous, she wants to be in the drama and center stage. Raquel wants to play the eternal victim but she needs to remember that she made her bed, and now she has to lie in it.
Raquel knowingly and willingly had an affair with a man who was in a long term relationship. She looked Ariana in the eye for 8 months, comforted her when her dog and grandmother died, brought her flowers, asked her about her sex life with Tom, all the while having sex with her boyfriend!
She had sex with Tom while Ariana slept in the next bedroom. She had sex with Tom when Ariana was at her grandmother’s funeral. That is not a woman who is a victim, no matter how much she says she is.
No one forced Raquel to have an affair. Actions have consequences and I think it’s ridiculous that a year later she’s suing Ariana for something she never did.
We’ll address the other ridiculous lawsuits in another post.
What are your thoughts on this?