Rachel Leviss Claims Tom Sandoval ‘Wore Down My Defenses’ in Lawsuit

Former Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss claimed her ex-fling Tom Sandoval “wore down [her] defenses” after she was left “isolated” by her breakup with James Kennedy, according to an emotional letter she penned in her revenge porn case.

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

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

Leviss sued her former costars this past February, accusing Sandoval, 41, of recording FaceTime videos showing her “in a state of undress and masturbating” without her “knowledge or consent,” and alleging Madix “distributed them and/or showed them to others.”

Madix demanded the suit be tossed earlier this month and denied sharing any explicit videos of Leviss with third parties. She also recently filed a motion to have her name stricken from the lawsuit under the anti-SLAPP statute, which protects Californians from litigation that violates their rights to free speech.

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

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

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

“Sandoval never asked my permission to record them, and I was not aware he was doing so,” she claimed, “Had he asked, I would have said no. If I had known he had done so anyway, I would have been furious and demanded he delete 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 captured additional 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 reacted to Madix’s messages with shock and alarm,” Leviss recalled. While admitting that she “was not surprised” at her costar’s anger, she said the fact that Madix now had access to the explicit videos “made an already difficult situation decidedly worse.”