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Scheana Shay and Rachel Leviss were close friends before the explosive reveal that the latter was having an affair with Tom Sandoval. Now dubbed Scandoval, the fallout reverberated outside of the Vanderpump Rules community. It also destroyed Shay and Leviss’ friendship. Leviss filed a restraining order against Shay, which made the latter feel as though she’d lost her only safe space.

Scheana Shay said she no longer felt safe because of Rachel Leviss

Leviss filed a restraining order against Shay in 2023. She alleged that Shay punched her after learning about the affair between her and Sandoval. Sandoval had been in a nine-year relationship with Shay’s close friend, Ariana Madix. 

Because of the restraining order, Shay’s address became publicly available. She said this had a major impact on her life.

“In the throes of Scandoval and its aftermath, my own world shattered,” she wrote in her book My Good Side (per Glamour). “Since Raquel had doxxed my address when she filed the restraining order, my only safe place no longer felt secure. Every day I was gritting my teeth and trying to power through this mess, not really knowing what my life would look like on the other side of it.”

She said that even after Leviss dropped the restraining order, rumors about her impacted Shay’s life. Some rumors claimed Leviss was having an affair with Shay’s husband, Brock Davies. 

“Even though I knew in my heart that the gossip concerning Brock and Raquel was ridiculously fake, we had to deal with it anyway,” she wrote. “There was the smallest section of my brain that kept thinking: If Tom and Raquel pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes for seven months, could Brock and Raquel have done the same thing? When such a monumental lie is exposed so close to you, it brings a lot into question.”

Davies later admitted to having an affair with a different woman.

The former reality star set a firm boundary against her co-star

Though Leviss dropped the restraining order, she said she wants nothing to do with Shay moving forward.

“No, I don’t plan on ever talking to her again,” she said on her podcast Rachel Goes Rogue (per People). “I don’t have many boundaries, but one of them is physical violence. If you harm me physically, or if you harm any living animal physically, I will … immediately cut you out of my life.”

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While she doesn’t want to hold onto resentment, she also doesn’t think Shay needs to be a part of her life.

“I don’t plan on reaching out to her,” she said. “I have been working on my list of resentments towards people, and I don’t know what the next step is necessarily, but I don’t know. We’ll see what the future holds, but I don’t plan on having a relationship ever with Scheana.”

Scheana Shay said she wished she could have spoken to Rachel Leviss

Shay felt differently about the situation. She wished she could have talked things out with Leviss. Because of the temporary restraining order on her, she wasn’t able to speak to Leviss at the Vanderpump Rules season 10 reunion.

“I felt like we definitely needed to have a conversation,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “Things with her and I ended very abruptly, and so I didn’t think at the reunion, I didn’t have an option. I had a temporary restraining order on me, and that also wouldn’t have been the place. I would’ve liked to have had a private conversation with her.”

Leviss did not return for the show’s 11th season, making it impossible for Shay to speak to her on the show.

“I completely understood, but I just felt like there were still some conversations she needed to have, not just with myself, but with Ariana, with Lala [Kent], with Lisa [Vanderpump],” Shay said. “And so yeah, it was disappointing that we didn’t get to have any of those, but maybe one day or maybe it’s for the best.”

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