Rachel “Raquel” Leviss has exited “Vanderpump Rules” following Scandoval, Pvnew can /confirm/i.
“Rachel will not be returning for Season 11 of ‘Vanderpump Rules,'” which has been in production since early July, a source told Entertainment Tonight Thursday.
“There was a possibility up until recently she’d be returning for the new season but ultimately decided against it.”
The source explained that the now-former Bravolebrity — who spent three months at a mental health facility in Arizona following the explosive Season 10 reunion — “is focused on her mental health journey and knew going back to the show would open her up to trauma she’s been working on healing.”
The former beauty pageant queen, 28, is apparently “looking forward to what the future holds for her.”
Reps for Leviss and Bravo did not immediately respond to Pvnew’s request for comment.
Leviss’ months-long affair with co-star Tom Sandoval, who was in a nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix at the time, was exposed in March.
Though filming for Season 10 had already wrapped, cameras quickly picked back up to capture the fallout of the shocking dalliance.
The cast then gathered mere weeks later to shoot the three-part reunion, during which Leviss and Sandoval got brutalized by their co-stars.
Soon after, Leviss checked herself into a mental health facility in Arizona, where her family lives.
She stayed at the treatment center until early July, when she checked out with a reported $200,000 bill.
At the time, insiders told Pvnew that the maligned reality star was “playing hardball” with Bravo in order to “get as much money as she possibly can.”
The goal was for the parties to reach “a deal” in time for Leviss to join the group on their cast trip to Lake Tahoe in mid-July.
However, amid the cast trip, paparazzi photographed the brunette beauty in Tucson wearing a baseball cap that read, “Be a good person.”
Then earlier this month, she was snapped at a Massage Envy in the same area, seeming to indicate she had no involvement with Season 11.
Meanwhile, Sandoval, 41, has been seen numerous times filming one-on-one as well as group scenes with his castmates.
Rumors are also circulating that Leviss has joined “Real Housewives of New York City” alum Bethenny Frankel’s recently launched legal war against NBCUniversal.
Frankel — who previously urged “punching bag” Leviss to “get paid” as much as possible before returning to “Pump Rules” — accused NBC and Bravo of making “deliberate attempts” to “manufacture mental instability” by plying their talent with “alcohol while depriving them of food and sleep, as well as denying mental health treatment for those displaying obvious and alarming signs of mental deterioration.”
The Skinnygirl mogul, 52, also accused the networks of “distributing and/or condoning the distribution of non-consensual pornography,” going on to mention the “distribution of revenge porn” and the “covering up” of “sexual violence.”
Madix, 38, notably learned about Sandoval’s secret romance with Leviss, her then-friend, after finding a sexually explicit video of her on his phone.
Though the video in question — a FaceTime call to Sandoval that showed Leviss masturbating — was allegedly circulated among the cast and their inner circle, it never made it to the public eye.
Then when Leviss appeared on Frankel’s “Just B” podcast for her first interview post-reunion earlier this week, she claimed Sandoval recorded the intimate FaceTime without her consent.
She also alleged that she hasn’t “seen a single penny” from Scandoval while Bravo is busy “running to the bank.”
However, “Pump Rules” star and executive producer Lisa Vanderpump quickly denied the claim, insisting Leviss earned $361,000 for Season 10.
