Rachel Leviss attends Stagecoach festival in SAME top Ariana Madix wore on Vanderpump Rules DURING Tom Sandoval affair

Rachel Leviss attended the Stagecoach festival in the same top Ariana Madix wore on Vanderpump Rules during their love triangle.

Ariana dumped her boyfriend of nine years Tom Sandoval last March after discovering he had had an affair with Rachel, then known as Raquel.

As ‘Scandoval’ exploded, Rachel faced a barrage of backlash so severe that she quit Vanderpump Rules and retreated to a mental health facility for two months.

That summer, she returned to the public eye and in February she sued Tom and Ariana for “revenge porn, wiretapping and invasion of privacy.”

Now, this Friday, Rachel was spotted in the Coachella Valley for the Stagecoach country music festival, where her ex-DJ James Kennedy was performing.

She wore a chic, burnt-orange crop top that Ariana previously wore on Season 10, Episode 14 of Vanderpump Rules – during Rachel and Tom’s affair.

Rachel posted several Insta Stories this Friday of her wearing the top while spending time with her friends near the country music festival.

Her updates included a lengthy selfie video that gave her more than half a million followers an up-close look at the garment.

Commenters on social media quickly noticed that the blouse was identical to the one Ariana wore in the 14th episode of season 10 of Vanderpump Rules.

At the time, Ariana had yet to discover that Tom was cheating on her with Rachel, who had been both a personal friend of hers and a co-star.

When the “Scandoval” story became a national controversy, Ariana received an outpouring of public support and Rachel retreated from the public eye as a pariah.

However, she resurfaced in August to give an extensive tell-all interview about the scandal on Bethenny Frankel’s podcast.

“I feel like I’m being portrayed as the ultimate villain,” Rachel told Bethenny on Just B. “My mistakes that I’ve made on camera will live on forever.”

During that interview, she claimed that Tom recorded an intimate FaceTime conversation with her without informing her first.

She filed suit against him and Ariana in February, accusing Tom of “secretly recording their private communications” and “capturing sexually explicit images” of her “without her knowledge or consent.”

Rachel further claimed that Ariana “intentionally distributed, disseminated, shared and published the illegal videos” after discovering them on Tom’s phone.

Her complaint, obtained by DailyMail.com, read: ‘Scandoval’ captured widespread public attention, went completely viral and revived Vanderpump Rules.

“It also caused chaos in Leviss’ life, culminating in months of inpatient treatment at a mental health facility and her departure from the show.”

The complaint read: “Instigated by Bravo and Evolution in collaboration with the cast, Leviss was subjected to an unprecedented public debate and became, without exaggeration, one of the most hated women in America.”

Soon after, a Bravo insider said Tom was “so crushed” by the lawsuit and that “none of them ever realized it would take the toll on Rachel that it did.”

Speaking to DailyMail.com, the source added: ‘Tom honestly thought he and Rachel would ride off into the sunset together. He was obsessed with her. He loved her so much and was so sure that she was the one he would spend forever with. For her to turn around and accuse him is absolutely shocking.”

More recently, Tom filed legal papers refuting Rachel’s lawsuit, which his team characterized as a “thinly veiled attempt to increase her fame and rebrand herself as the victim instead of the other woman,” according to Page six.

On Bethenny’s podcast, Rachel blamed the affair on binge drinking and heartbreak, saying she entered treatment to “understand my actions.”

Addressing her viewers and her co-stars, she emotionally apologized for “the pain I caused many people.”

She explained: ‘I wasn’t careful in my actions and I didn’t think about the long term. I was completely wrapped up in heartbreak and wanted certain needs met.”

Rachel also blamed alcohol, saying: “When I was filming I drank a lot to assuage that anxiety, and in a reality TV environment I wasn’t given that safe space where I could express my emotions in a healthy way express. .’

She said she was “remorseful” about the “pain” she caused Ariana, but nevertheless didn’t expect her former friend to forgive her.

Ariana was scathing in her response to the podcast, saying that Bethenny’s interview with Rachel had “affected” her mental health.

Her anger was directed less at Rachel than at Bethenny, who had brought up the fact that Ariana and Tom never married or had children in a conversation with Rachel.

Noting that Tom would have been considered her common-law husband “in many states,” Ariana said of Bethenny’s comments, “I find that hurtful when it comes to other women in relationships who don’t have children.” Maybe they can’t have children, they don’t want children or they don’t want to get married.’

She continued, “None of those people’s relationships are any less meaningful because of it… she should know better than to say that about anyone.”