Rachel Leviss claims Tom Sandoval ‘weakened my defense’ in lawsuit

Former Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss her ex alleged affair Tom Sandoval “worn out [her] defenses” after being left “isolated” by her breakup with James Kennedyevident from an emotional letter she wrote in her revenge porn case.

RadarOnline.com obtained a copy of the new affidavit Leviss filed with the court, which detailed her version of the events that led her to sue Sandoval and his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Madix.

The lawsuit stemmed from the infamous seven-month affair between Leviss and Sandoval – dubbed “Scandoval” – which shocked Bravo fans when the news broke last March. Madix, 39, said she had no idea her live-in boyfriend of nine years was cheating on her until she found erotic videos of Leviss, 29, on Sandoval’s phone.

Leviss sued her former co-stars last February, he accused Sandoval, 41, of recording FaceTime videos that showed her “in a state of undress and masturbation” without her “knowledge or consent,” claiming that Madix “distributed and/or distributed them had shown others’.

Madix demanded the lawsuit be dismissed earlier this month and denied sharing explicit videos of Leviss with third parties. She also recently filed a motion to have her name removed from the lawsuit under the anti-SLAPP statute, which protects Californians from lawsuits that violate their right to free speech.

In response, Leviss’ legal team argued that her lawsuit was not an “attack on.” [Madix’s] the right to speak freely on matters of public interest,” as the defendant claimed. They also argued that Madix’s conduct “cannot be protected by the anti-SLAPP statute because it was illegal.”

The secret couple communicated “regularly” via FaceTime, “sometimes sexually,” she said, noting that these conversations were “confidential.” Leviss characterized the calls as “private communications that reflected a clandestine matter.”

However, the recordings were allegedly taken around February 2023 while she was “in a private residence,” Leviss said.

“Sandoval never asked my permission to record them, and I didn’t know he was doing so,” she claimed. “If he had asked, I would have said no. If I had known he would have done that anyway, I would have been furious and demanded he remove them.”

“Under no circumstances would I have consented to being recorded,” she insisted, adding: “Given Sandoval’s apparent practice of secretly recording me, I have every reason to believe that he is still made more compromising videos and/or images of me.”

After Madix discovered the videos, she sent Leviss three text messages on March 1, 2023. The first two were video recordings and the third read, “You are DEAD TO ME.”

“I responded with shock and concern to Madix’s messages,” Leviss recalls. While she admitted that she “wasn’t surprised” by her co-star’s anger, she said the fact that Madix now had access to the explicit videos “definitely made an already difficult situation even worse.”