Raquel Leviss Speaks—and Seems to Confirm Her 'Vanderpump Rules' Exit

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. And on Bethenny Frankel's podcast, no less. Rachel, the SURver formerly known as Raquel, said that she learned a lot about her own “love addiction” during her stay at a mental health treatment facility and seemed to confirm that she would not, in fact, be returning to Vanderpump Rules to tell her side of the story in Season 11. “Part of the reason why I wanted to take some time away is just because it was so chaotic and loud and there was such vitriol online.

But then the other part of the reason why I wanted to go to a treatment facility was to understand my behaviors,” Leviss told Frankel on the in an August 16 interview. “It took me a while to accept, but I learned about love addiction and it’s a real thing.

It’s where you confuse intensity for intimacy…So it is addictive, and it explains why I couldn’t stop seeing this person, but it also doesn’t excuse the fact that it happened.” This content can also be viewed on the site it from.It's been , but while her cast-mates have been spilling all sorts of tea on their various podcasts, Watch What Happens Live appearances, and social media, we've heard almost nothing from the woman at the center of it all () until now.

It's worth noting that Frankel is a former Real Housewife, and has been on something of a crusade against Bravo in general, making her a more sympathetic interviewer than, say, Andy Cohen might have been.