Kristina Kelly alleged the Vanderpump Guidelines manufacturing workforce instigated an argument during the notorious season 10 girls’ excursion to Las Vegas.
The former SUR waitress, 35, shared her facet of the drama on the Wednesday, June 21, episode of Stassi Schroeder‘s “Straight Up With Stassi” podcast.
“We received term that [Raquel Leviss] was revealed footage of [Lala Kent, Katie Maloney and I] speaking s—t about her. We experienced a major factor about it with one particular of the producers and we were actually upset and we observed out who it was. It is a new [producer],” Kristina claimed about the solid journey, which took an unexpected turn when Raquel, 28, and Charli Burnett left subsequent a tense team evening meal.
A source near to manufacturing, nonetheless, denies Kristina’s account of what occurred in Sin Town, telling Us that there’s “no truth” to the crew meddling by displaying Raquel footage.
During a March episode of Vanderpump Policies, Lala, 32, Katie, 36, and Kristina found them selves at odds with Raquel soon after she hooked up with Garcelle Beauvais‘ son Oliver Saunders, who they fulfilled when eating at Lisa Vanderpump‘s cafe in Sin Town. The design, however, argued that she received Lala’s acceptance to discover her thoughts for the waiter.
“You questioned me, and I advised you to go for it. [But] you ingesting? I would in no way belief you around my person,” Lala mentioned, to which Raquel quipped that it was a fantastic matter the Utah indigenous didn’t “have a man” to hide from her.
Immediately after viewing the scene again, Kristina questioned the authenticity of the subsequent fallout from the argument. “We had been like, ‘This is modifying the narrative for the reason that you are messing with [filming].’ I truly feel like they were being definitely making an attempt to give [Raquel] a story line where we were being these bullies,” she added on Wednesday. “So, they ended up like, ‘This needs to make perception so she desires to know what was stated that night in Las Vegas.’”
The Heartspring founder also accused the show’s producers of enhancing moments out of context.
“They also confirmed [Raquel] crying in bed. She was crying in bed and they edited that as if she eavesdropped and heard us talking about her and then she got into mattress with her galaxy lights and started out crying,” Kristina discussed. “She was crying around [Ariana Madix‘s] canine. Ariana’s canine experienced passed absent and we had just located out, and so she got in the mattress and I am rather certain she FaceTimed Ariana. And she was crying in bed more than that, and I truly feel like it performed out like we had been mean ladies [who caused it].”
The identical production resource denies to Us that Raquel was crying about Ariana’s puppy, incorporating she was without a doubt upset about the reviews her costars made.
As viewers watched the drama unfold on the show, information broke in March that Tom Sandoval and Ariana, 37, called it quits because of to his affair with Raquel. The forged arrived back again with each other months later on to tackle the scandal — and its aftermath — throughout the reunion taping.
In a confessional filmed days later, Raquel clarified the alleged timeline of her affair with Sandoval, 40. The dramatic expose came during the last minutes of the June 7 reunion episodes following she and the TomTom cofounder tried to defend on their own all through portion 3.
“I consider it’s vital to me to convey to the reality. I believe that I have been lying and becoming so deceitful this entire time that I really don’t want to lie anymore and it’s all out there in any case. Like, the worst is out, however I’m continue to acquiring myself obtaining to lie about unique timeline things,” she mentioned in an emotional confessional. “[Sandoval] feels like it would be a lot less hurtful to say that, you know, this was not likely on for so extensive. [But] the 2nd time was essentially in the course of Mexico [at Scheana Shay and Brock Davies’ August 2022 wedding].”
Subsequent the bombshell revelation, a source made available an update on how Raquel was managing the general public backlash.
“Upon the completion of filming the reunion, Raquel entered a voluntary inpatient behavioral wellness and trauma facility and stays there to date — 68 days and counting,” an insider solely told Us Weekly previously this month. “Her treatment is serving to her master the foundation of her conclusions and to improve from her faults with the hope of earning far better possibilities and becoming a much better human being. She is a young girl that is and has been remorseful for her actions and has apologized continuously. Raquel appears to be ahead to sharing her tale with the unfiltered truth of the matter when she arrives out.”
Though cameras have stopped rolling for now, the Pump Guidelines cast has ongoing to dissect the scandal off screen. Lala, for her aspect, earlier weighed in on why she thought Raquel was intended to be the supporter beloved on year 10.
“She would have gained the time. She would have been the No. 1 chick as she is sobbing about earning up for shed time,” the Give Them Lala creator reported throughout a May possibly episode of her podcast, referring to Raquel’s emotional confessionals about her break up from James Kennedy. “Do we consider she was crying so seriously simply because she was feeling responsible? The line was crossed very well prior to they experienced sex. The emotional affair had previously began.”
At the time, Lala stated she was not ruling out a feasible redemption arc for Raquel, adding, “As a lot as I slam her every single chance I get, beyond that I do see a broken individual. I do not believe she is heartless and soulless.”
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