Raquel Leviss feels 'ashamed' of her 'deceitful' relationship with Tom Sandoval

Raquel Leviss admitted that she was "ashamed" of her "very deceitful" relationship with Tom Sandoval during the second segment of the Vanderpump Rules season 10 reunion, but she was also accused of "blaming" their co-star Ariana Madix.

The 28-year-old pageant queen's one-on-one pre-interview with Andy Cohen was eventually shown to viewers on Wednesday's episode.

She opened up to the 54-year-old host of Watch What Happens Live about the start of her relationship with the co-owner of Schwartz & Sandy's.

“Things started getting more romantic after this girl's trip that I went on.”

When queried if Sandoval, 40, “made you feel special,” Raquel said, “Yeah, he made me feel heard and seen. And those are feelings that I haven't really felt maybe ever the way that he was seeing ever.”

“How did you envision that this was going to play out with Ariana, did you think that there was a path forward for the two of you?” wondered Andy.

Admitted Raquel, “I think I was living in my own little reality hoping that it would work out.”

When talking about the "many signs" Ariana disregarded regarding Sandoval and Raquel's covert affair, which finally brought an end to the couple's nine-year relationship, Andy made the following observation: “It’s interesting because Tom said to me that he felt like … 'Maybe she knows but she's in denial about this somehow.”

“It seemed that way,” Raquel claimed. “She never pressed about it. She never confronted me about it. From what I know what Tom has told me, she didn't question him too much about it just believed like at face value what he would tell her.”

“That kind of sounds like you're blaming her,” Andy said.

“At the time, I think that was my mindset,” she explained. "And I now I know that she really did want to know, and it was very deceitful. I'm very ashamed of it."