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Rachel “Raquel” Leviss agrees with Lala Kent‘s suggestion that Tom Sandoval is a groomer.

After Lala, 33, made the claim against Sandoval, 41, on Tuesday’s episode of Vanderpump Rules, Raquel, 29, welcomed therapist Melissa Reich to her podcast, the place she addressed Sandoval’s past behavior towards her, together with his alleged grooming and the “boundaries” he pushed with each her and his former girlfriend, Ariana Madix, 38.

“I don’t wish to label Tom,” Raquel started on the March 13 episode of Rachel Goes Rogue. “I do know I’ve known as him a narcissist prior to now, and perhaps I shouldn’t have completed that. However you begin seeing these patterns and these kinds of habits, and there are phrases that psychologists use to clarify this habits as a result of as soon as you’ll be able to choose up on it, it turns into predictable. So it’s like, the terminology is used as a software, not as an insult to someone.”

Whereas Raquel didn’t wish to label Tom, she admitted to feeling that she’d been “groomed.”

“I do really feel like I’ve been groomed as a result of I used to be in a really susceptible mind-set, and I simply got out of a relationship that I really feel like was very damaging to my well-being,” she defined. “He witnessed that complete factor play out. And I believe issues began shifting once we went to Coachella, and he actually went out of his approach to cater to me.”

In keeping with Raquel, Sandoval introduced non-nicotine cigarettes for them to smoke collectively.

“Considering again on it, did he carry these only for me, or did he carry these for those who didn’t smoke cigarettes that he wished to smoke with them?” she questioned, including that her therapist mentioned smoking was “a really intimate kind of exercise.”

“That was the very first thing that I can actually label as, I believe that was grooming,” Raquel suspected.

As for the boundaries Sandoval pushed with each her and Ariana, Raquel mentioned that he would usually do issues that one would possibly discover inappropriate along with her — even when Ariana was round.

“I simply flash again and I consider the boundary-stretching that was occurring when all three of us had been in the identical atmosphere, and he would nearly push Ariana’s boundaries when he would contact me a sure method or like, therapeutic massage my toes in entrance of her, however like, act prefer it was utterly regular,” she recalled. “So then for me, it was like, ‘Nicely, it feels prefer it’s okay and Ariana’s not saying something.’ However pondering again, I’m certain she was uncomfortable with it however perhaps didn’t wish to say something in entrance of him.”

“I simply really feel like he was pushing each of our boundaries,” Raquel added.

Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.