A yr and a half after Rachel Leviss was thrust into the nationwide highlight when her relationship together with her Vanderpump Guidelines costar Tom Sandoval was made public, the previous actuality star is stepping away from Hollywood and again to a quieter actuality — and one that features a new man.
Leviss, who was recognized to audiences for her former moniker “Raquel,” introduced on the Thursday, Oct. 17 episode of Rachel Goes Rogue that she could be walking away from the spotlight and from her podcast.
Listeners could do not forget that Leviss solely simply launched the podcast in January 2024, utilizing the weekly present as a solution to give her perspective on the fallout between her and her former Vanderpump Guidelines costars within the wake of the romance that might rock the Bravosphere.
Scandoval, as followers dubbed it, led to the tip of a nine-year romance between Sandoval and his ex, Ariana Madix — who additionally occurred to be Leviss’ former good friend.
Quickly the entire world seemingly turned on Leviss, dubbing her a homewrecker whilst she ended her personal relationship with Sandoval. She spent 90 days in a psychological well being facility and selected to not return to Vanderpump Guidelines‘ eleventh season, as a substitute processing her ache on her podcast in common conversations with psychological and self-help specialists.
Lots of the conversations on Rachel Goes Rogue have been targeted on trying again, the star therapeutic her emotional wounds by atoning for previous errors made and clarifying different misconceptions viewers had about her function in Scandoval. And whereas some on the Vanderpump Guidelines solid slammed her for consistently discussing the present — whereas, consequently creating wealth off her storyline — Leviss endured on, hoping that the teachings that she discovered by her expertise would assist others.
However now, Leviss says, it is time to begin trying ahead.
“I’ve made the choice to take each ft out of the Vanderpump Guidelines universe and give attention to myself and my therapeutic,” Leviss, 30, stated on the present that revealed Thursday, including that she was “selecting a life that’s absolutely aligned in my values and who I need to present up as each single day.”
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A part of that life, now, contains time spent on new friendships she’s been capable of kind over the previous yr, ones she stated are constructed on a powerful basis of honesty and belief the place feelings could be shared in a wholesome and protected manner.
“It was kinda scary simply… beginning over and forming new friendships and actually placing myself on the market,” Leviss stated. “However one factor that I’ve found with that’s it is like evening and day when you’ve pals that need to hear how you feel and need to get to know you for you and are loving and accepting and are not going to react in a manner that’s going to attenuate you as an individual.”
“It’s extremely disturbing to me that that was my regular, these kinds of friendships and the the best way that…we’d work together with one another. As a result of that is not really wholesome, nevertheless it it was my regular to me,” she added. “And to not place blame on anybody else, as a result of I am conscious of how I’m as an individual and the way I find yourself changing into extra just like the individuals I encompass myself with. However now I do know higher to decide on individuals I actually do admire for the values that I wanna be extra alike.”
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There’s one other factor that Leviss has in her life lately: a brand new relationship.
She stated on the podcast, whereas talking with Psychologist Dr. Hillary Goldsher, that she’s in a “very wholesome” relationship, boasting that her beau — whom she will not be naming — is “very regular.”
“He’s simply such a supportive particular person, and I simply really feel actually completely happy,” gushed Leviss, who was beforehand engaged to her Vanderpump Guidelines costar James Kennedy earlier than her tryst with Sandoval.
“The rationale why I am selecting to share it with you guys now, with the permission of my important different, is as a result of it’s a success story, and there’s hope for the individuals which are listening who’re fighting relationships and and actually cannot fairly see the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel but,” she added. “If you do course appropriate and and select a unique life-style for your self and prioritize various things in your life and…put all that power again into your self, then you definitely actually will start…to draw a unique caliber of particular person.”
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A rep for Leviss didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark about her man, however a supply near the star tells PEOPLE that he is a rocket engineer.
“They met by mutual pals and simply hit it off,” the insider says. “He is an unbelievable man. Actually sensible and sort and right down to earth and, most significantly, disinterested in social media. He’s not even on social media. So his priorities are actually in the suitable place.”
As for what’s subsequent for Leviss, the supply says she’ll be persevering with to separate her time between Arizona, the place she has a home, and Idaho, the place her mother and father reside. “She loves the well being and wellness discipline, with remedy and studying, so she’s going to place her focus there,” the insider says.
And although Rachel Goes Rogue is ending, the podcast will likely be getting a brand new title and a brand new host, a second insider tells PEOPLE.
“The podcast goes to go on, however there’s nonetheless going to be Vanderpump content material to debate,” the supply says. “Rachel gained’t part of it, however there will likely be somebody new able to go rogue.”
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Leviss did concern PEOPLE a press release concerning the finish of her podcast, saying: “I’m so grateful for my expertise and to my iHeart staff. I liked talking to the followers and am pleased with our successes.”
“In 65 episodes, the listeners propelled Rachel Goes Rogue to the highest 100 podcast reveals a number of weeks in a row and garnered over over 6 million downloads,” she added. “I’m trying ahead to shifting previous Vanderpump Guidelines and persevering with to nurture my relationships new and outdated.”
