Lisa Vanderpump on Rachel Leviss Not Returning to Vanderpump Rules

Transcript

00:00 Is there an update on Raquel? Has she stopped filming?

00:03 Well, she never started filming.

00:05 So, um, no, I mean, look, she really is not a part of that group right now.

00:12 So she was away for a while, and we had conversations with her about her taking part in the show.

00:19 But ultimately, that isn't what has ended up happening.

00:23 And Lisa, do you want to speak to Raquel's situation?

00:25 Well, I would like to see growth with people.

00:29 And she was in, you know, she was out for three months.

00:33 And I felt that, you know, for her to come back to a place where she knows I've always been very supportive of her,

00:41 even though, of course, I can condemn what she did.

00:44 There was no way I could justify that.

00:46 So I felt that it would have been a good idea for her to basically not just talk to me and tell me,

00:52 because I've been emotionally invested in that girl.

00:54 I have always been, "Come on, you know, stand up to James. Come on."

00:58 I know you, I've always been a big supporter of her, kind of, you know, coming out of her,

01:04 you know, she was kind of living within shackles of insecurity, so to speak.

01:10 So I've always been kind of pushing her.

01:12 And I'd like to have seen her sit down with me, and also a way to kind of let the audience know where she was,

01:20 how she was doing, what her thoughts were, how much contrition there was.

01:24 And she kind of chose not to.

01:26 She did, her team did reach out to us to talk about coming back, on emails and texts,

01:32 and we, of course, we were open to it.

01:34 Now, I don't know whether the cast would necessarily be friendly,

01:40 but it kind of moved on in terms of emotion.

01:42 - I think they felt for her. - Yeah, they did.

01:46 - And Gael reached out to her. - Yeah.

01:48 I mean, the visual anger at the reunion was what they felt in that moment.

01:52 And then I think they wished her well, and they wished her healing,

01:55 and it doesn't mean that they wouldn't let her back in their lives, the capacity that she took for it.

02:00 I don't think they would have asked it, though.

02:01 But I think they had an empathy for the fact that it was so emotional, the emotional devastation.

02:07 As I say, when I said I want to reach out to her, I was like, I am so supportive of that,

02:12 because everybody, that's what band conference is about.

02:15 It's about kids that have grown up or struggle to grow up,

02:19 and so many people relate to it because it's about making mistakes, right?

02:24 It is about making mistakes and coming back from it.

02:28 So, yeah.

02:29 (bells chiming)

02:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]