Scheana Shay ‘Never Punched’ Raquel Leviss, Attorney Says

Raquel Leviss, 28, is lying astir Scheana Shay, 37, pushing her up against a partition and punching her successful New York City past week, lawyer Neama Rahmani, who is representing Scheana, said successful a connection released connected March 9.  “This lawsuit is simply a fabrication by a known liar and a cheat who has betrayed everyone adjacent to her. Scheana ne'er punched Rachel, period,” she said successful the statement, which was shared with HollywoodLife via a publicist. “The expected acheronian markings astir her near oculus person been determination for months. Neither Scheana nor different formed members privation thing to bash with Rachel going forward. The justice has lone heard a one-sided relationship of what happened, and we look guardant to presenting the afloat and existent communicative astatine the March 29 hearing.”

Raquel filed for a restraining order against her Vanderpump Rules co-star connected Tuesday, March 7 successful Los Angeles, and was granted a impermanent 1 that orders Scheana to enactment 100 feet distant from her the pursuing day. In the tribunal docs, which were obtained by HollywoodLife, Raquel wrote that the world prima punched her “in the look causing wounded to” her near eye.” She besides claimed the alleged onslaught resulted successful “[a] achromatic oculus and cut/scar to near eyebrow, blurred imaginativeness & swelling to near eye”. As seen successful the beneath photos, Raquel’s near oculus appeared to beryllium discolored and determination is humor connected her near eyebrow.

Raquel Leviss included the supra photograph successful her restraining bid filing (Photo: Mega)

The alleged battle reportedly took spot connected Thursday, March 2, conscionable hours aft Raquel and Scheana appeared to beryllium chill with each different connected Andy Cohen‘s Watch What Happens Live. The alleged onslaught reportedly occurred successful transportation to Raquel’s matter with co-star Tom Sandoval, 39, who was successful a nine-year narration with their Vanderpump Rules co-star and Raquel’s expected friend, Ariana Madix, 37. Ariana and Scheana are ace close, and tribunal docs accidental that Scheana is not atrocious for allegedly punching her, which is wherefore Raquel felt it indispensable to get a restraining order. The documents besides accidental that communal friends are telling Raquel that the Viva Verano laminitis “would bash it again if she recovered that further affectional distress was caused to” Ariana.

The supra representation shows Raquel Leviss’ oculus discolored and chopped (Photo: Mega)

Scheana showed her support for Ariana on Instagram with a March 5 photo of her and Ariana posing connected the carpet for Watch What Happens Live. “Always got your back!” she captioned the photograph with a punching emoji and a “Team Ariana” hashtag.

News of Tom and Raquel’s matter broke publically connected March 3, and Bravo cameras were successful action connected Saturday, March 4, to seizure the downfall of Tom and Ariana’s relationship. Tom admitted to the affair via an Instagram station helium shared connected March 5, successful which helium did not notation Ariana, but apologized to the co-owners of his Schwartz & Sandy’s barroom and edifice (which includes co-star Tom Schwartz) and their employees. He followed up with an apology directed astatine Ariana connected March 7.

“I privation to archetypal and foremost apologize to everyone I’ve wounded done this process,” helium began successful his lengthy note. “Most of all, I privation to apologize to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that wounded idiosyncratic I love. No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly.”

“I tin lone ideate however devastating this has been for Ariana and everyone astir us,” the TomTom co-owner continued. “I consciousness truly horrible astir that. My biggest regret is that I dishonored Ariana. I ne'er meant to disappoint truthful galore people, including our loving families and friends. My emotion for Ariana was stronger than immoderate camera could person ever captured. Some of our champion times unneurotic were ne'er filmed. The aforesaid goes for immoderate of our biggest struggles. I privation things happened successful a antithetic bid and our narration was not severely tarnished, and that it ended with the aforesaid respect with for her that it began with. I owed Ariana better.”

“I americium beyond bittersweet that it ended the mode it did. The choices I made wounded truthful galore people,” helium added, wrapping up his post. “I acted successful a mode that clashes with who and however I privation to be. I volition proceed to bespeak and enactment connected myself. I person enactment to do. I ever person and I ever will.”

Raquel broke her silence connected the substance by apologizing to Ariana successful a connection released to Entertainment Tonight connected March 8. “I privation to apologize for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans truthful invested successful our relationships. There is nary excuse, I americium not a unfortunate and I indispensable ain my actions and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana,” she said.

“I americium reflecting connected my choices, speaking to a counsellor and I americium learning things astir myself specified arsenic my patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved,” she continued. “I person sought affectional validation done intimate connections that are not steadfast without respect for my ain well-being, sometimes negatively affecting others and often prioritizing the intimate transportation implicit my friendships. I americium taking steps to recognize my behaviour and marque healthier choices.”

After addressing immoderate of the things that she has gone done owed to the matter — specified arsenic losing friendships and allegedly being physically assaulted — she said she is focused connected breaking her “unhealthy behavioral cycle” with the assistance of counseling arsenic good arsenic protecting her intelligence health.

Ariana has not spoken publically astir the devastating concern but is leaving connected her friends Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, Scheana Shay, and former VPR star and Tom’s ex Kristen Doute for support, according to Page Six. “Ariana has recapped what happened with her friends and castmates, the bulk of whom are disappointed Tom seems incapable to instrumentality accountability for his actions oregon explicit important remorse,” a idiosyncratic adjacent to the world prima revealed to the publication.

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