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By Emma Chance | TV | August 11, 2023
Rachel Leviss continues to put her mental health first.
“Rachel has been spending time with her family in Arizona since leaving the mental health facility,” said a source close to Leviss. She “has been receiving letters from people opening up about their own mental health journey and applauding her for taking time away from filming to focus on her mental health. Rachel is in a really good place and has been enjoying a slower pace of life. She’s been doing Pilates and often goes hiking.” Sounds a whole lot nicer than getting yelled at by Lisa Vanderpump’s former employees.
Leviss has been spotted enjoying her slow life several times recently, including once at a Massage Envy. As for filming, she “knows that if she films for Vanderpump Rules it won’t be good for her mental health. She feels she already said what she needed to say at the reunion and she’s putting all that behind her and is moving forward. Rachel hasn’t filmed for the new season…but it’s not fully off the table.”
Well, I hope she does take it off the table. It’s becoming increasingly clear that Leviss was as much a victim of Tom Sandoval’s narcissistic abuse as Ariana Madix. Even reality star union boss Bethenny Frankel thinks she shouldn’t go back to the show.
“She had an affair. She’s not the first person in the world that’s had an affair…You were wrong, you slept with someone’s boyfriend. It happens. You work in a bar on a reality television show, the most toxic environment in history,” Frankel told Entertainment Weekly. She compared the treatment of Leviss to Lord of the Flies.
The rest of the cast is filming, but it doesn’t look like they’re having a great time doing it. Leviss would be smart to cut and run.
