Raquel Leviss and Tom Sandoval attend White Fox After Hours At Delilah Los Angeles on October 18, 2022.Photo:Vivien Killilea/Getty
Vivien Killilea/Getty
Rachel “Raquel” Levissis looking back at the start of hermonths-long affairwithTom Sandoval.
“I think then I was starting to feel a certain way and the attention he would give me, and … it just felt good in that moment,” she explained.
Raquel Leviss, Tom Sandoval and Brittany Cartwright Cauchi attend White Fox After Hours At Delilah Los Angeles on October 18, 2022.Amy Sussman/Getty Images
“So we get to his house and we’re like sitting in my car just chatting for 20 minutes, and then he’s like, ‘Do you want to come in for a nightcap?’” she shared. “And I was like, ‘Oh, twist my arm why don’t you? Yeah, of course I do.’”
Leviss then confirmed that Sandoval locked himself out of the house, which Madix also mentioned on season 10, following their night out.
“She’s sleeping upstairs,” she said of Madix. “So he’s like, ‘Oh, I’m locked out. Let me try the back door, come with me around back, and I was like, ‘OK, cool.’ So we go in the back and the sliding door isn’t unlocked. So he’s like, well, we’ve got the firepit here. I was like, ‘Yeah, firepit’s cool, like we could just keep talking.’ So we’ve got the firepit going and we’re chatting and then he goes, he says, ‘Do you know what the best thing about this pool is? And I was like what?’ And he’s like, ‘That is heated.’”
She then suggested they take a swim, sharing, “I took my jeans off, and I had this corset top on, so I left that on, and I was in my underwear, and I went in his pool and it was heated.”
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Leviss then began playing music on her phone and Sandoval — who was in his boxers — instructed her to turn it down before they got physical.
“He looked at me a certain way, and then he like, grabbed me, spun me and kissed me,” she shared. “I was surprised, but like, happy. Ugh, God. So bad, so embarrassing.”
“I knew it was wrong; Tom knew it was wrong,” she continued. “Because right after Tom kissed me, he sat on the stair of the pool and he was like, hands on his face. His mind must have been running a million miles a minute contemplating what to do.”
“Everything?” the producer questioned.
“It was very bad,” she replied.
As for who initiated the hookup, Leviss said, “Does it even matter who made the first move?” Because it was like, I feel like I’m in this, like, romantic… I feel swept off my feet, I feel so infatuated and, like, loved.”
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Before their first kiss, Leviss admitted that Sandoval was “always there for me.”
However, Leviss had a change of heart since theScandoval. When asked about Sandoval’s recent appearance on theTwo Ts in a Pod, she shared that she felt “sick” while listening.
“I’ve never had this physical reaction before, but I felt like I was going to throw up, like because his voice repulsed me,” she said. “And I’m like, ‘OK, this is a good sign.’”
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