The dust of Scandoval has finally settled for some Vanderpump Rules stars: both Lala Kent and Katie Maloney believe Rachel “Raquel” Leviss should have returned for Season 11.
Last year, it was revealed that Leviss had a months-long affair with her co-star Tom Sandoval, who was in a nine-year-long relationship with Ariana Madix at the time they struck up their secret fling. At the Season 10 reunion, Leviss was brutalized by her castmates, which led to her departure from the Emmy-nominated reality show.
Despite slamming her at the reunion (and on social media), Kent believes Leviss should have come back for “some sort of closure” to the whole debacle.
“I thought that she needed to come back to the group after the dust had settled and people were willing to hear her out, make her amends in a calmer setting and then ride off into the distance,” Kent told Page Six, before later adding, “I wish that she would’ve come back.”
Referring to Leviss’ new podcast, Rachel Goes Rogue, Kent said the former beauty queen’s return would’ve been smarter from a business standpoint since “no one’s gonna care about Scandoval forever.”
Plus, filming for Season 11 “would’ve been different than” Leviss thought it would be, according to Kent.
“A lot of us have had dust settled and time has passed and with that comes logic that sets in,” Kent said. “As opposed to three weeks after the news breaks and we’re in a reunion together.”
Meanwhile, Maloney agreed that Leviss “should’ve just come back” to apologize to everyone.
“I don’t think anyone was like, ‘Dang I wish Rachel was here,’ but I think given everything that had went down, I think now that she’s got a podcast I think it would’ve been good to have some sort of resolve,” she said.
Maloney noted that “no one would’ve been upset if she came back.”
“She had just as much as a place to come back as anyone else did,” she said. “As much as Sandoval had a place to come back, as much as anyone did. I think if she was gonna eventually wanna tell her side or speak her peace, she should’ve just come and done that on the show.”
Both reality stars said they would have been open to filming with Leviss, though Kent said she would need the former Sur waitress to first apologize for calling her a “mistress.”
Vanderpump Rules Season 11 premieres on Tuesday, Jan. 30.
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