Vanderpump Rules’ Raquel Leviss checks into mental health treatment facility

Vanderpump Rules’ Raquel Leviss has checked into a mental health facility — amid the lingering fallout from her affair with Tom Sandoval.

The reality star, 28. whose affair with Sandoval, 39, ended his nine-year romance with Ariana Madix, 36, in March, chose to enter the voluntary institution before her affair was discovered, reports ET.

A source told ET, “Raquel and her family decided before the relationship was discovered that she would go to a voluntary mental health facility.

She was supposed to go to the pre-reunion, but decided she wanted to finish her movie commitment. Bravo and production were aware and supported her journey to better mental health.

Leviss’ representative added that she was not in a facility for substance abuse problems.

Love triangle: (L-R) Explosive: The reality star, 28. whose affair with Sandoval, 39, ended his nine-year romance with Ariana Madix, 36, chose to enter the voluntary institution before her affair was discovered (pictured Nov. 2022 )

Last month, Leviss released a statement revealing that she was analyzing her own behavior and spoke to a counselor after the affair came to light.

She said, “I reflect on my choices, speak with a counselor, and I learn things about myself, such as my patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved.

“I have sought emotional validation through intimate connections that are not healthy with no regard for my own well-being, sometimes negatively impacting others and often prioritizing the intimate connection over my friendships. I am taking steps to understand my behavior and make healthier choices.’

This comes after Sandoval revealed that he and Leviss put the brakes on their sexual relationship, after their month-long affair came to light in March.

After the recent end of his nine-year relationship with Madix about his infidelity, the bar owner revealed that they are “taking a bit of a break.”

“We don’t label it,” the reality star said on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast.

When asked if they were still friends with benefits by the comedian, 67, Sandoval denied they were still in a relationship.

“Not now,” the rocker, who is in cover band Tom Sandoval & The Most Extras, told listeners, after insisting he and the former pageant queen are still “good friends.”

As for how their relationship blossomed from platonic to intimate, Sandoval opened up about his attraction to Leviss when he and Madix, 37, drifted apart after nearly a decade together.

“We were at my house, and I’m locked out of my house and we talk and we kiss,” he recalls. “It was magnetic. We got closer and while we were talking time went on, and we talked closer and closer, and all of a sudden we’re kissing. I felt something I hadn’t felt in so long, emotionally, for instance.’

He went on to explain how he and Madix had taken on their own lives and how the romance between them had grown stale.

“We were together for nine years and had obviously built a house and business together and everything. We were a brand. And like many relationships, it became more of a best friend/family/sometimes roommates situation,” he explained.

The Missouri native said their relationship was generally “just a lack of intimacy” and “connection.”

He felt like they stuck together to ‘keep the optics this high’ [they] were solid’ for their reality show and other business endeavors.

“We were definitely behind each other and that was nice. There was security and stability in it,” he said of Madix.

Before he turned 40, he recalled thinking his life “looked very bleak” and began to think his “best years were over.”

“I started to lose my life optimism and drive. I felt like I had to change something to feel alive again, to be motivated, to be optimistic again,” Sandoval confessed.

Prior to his affair, he said his “confidence was wiped out” and any sexual experience with him would be like hooking up with “a 19-year-old” on “his second time” when he lost his “game.”

‘I’m not saying it is [Ariana’s] wrong, we just didn’t have that intimacy,” Sandoval claimed.

After hearing his guest’s side, Mandel urged fans to have “empathy and compassion” for Sandoval, who previously said he felt “one of the most hated people in America” ​​for betraying Madix .

“You need to be heard, because the story belongs to everyone but you,” the judges of America’s Got Talent told listeners. “I don’t understand the hate and the vitriol.”

While the father-of-three stated that he “didn’t approve of cheating on a partner,” he raised eyebrows for saying the amount of backlash Sandoval has received has been confusing.