All right here we go – Raquel/Rachel, whichever one, is making her grand entrance, after Scheana exits, of course.
People were saying that she was stoned-face and didn’t show emotion nor seemed upset. I disagree. She was definitely uneasy and nervous, Although she didn’t cry, her voice was cracking, and she clearly was shook sitting there facing everyone.
I just want to get this in, and I probably said it before. You have to give her props for even showing up here,. You do. She could have used the restraining order as an excuse, she could have played sick, cough cough think I have Covid, or just said, fuck it, I’m not going, It’s not a law that Bravolebs HAVE to do the reunions. I know sometimes we think it is, but it’s not. Others that were embarrassed by their behavior passed. That fucking Natasha chick from BDM said yeah sorry, I’m busy, Trashley from BDSY said pass, that nasty Dijana whack job chick from RHOBH last season, pretended to be sick, and participated for five minutes virtually.
She immediately opens with stating that she’s embarrassed & apologizes. Again not the norm, for our Bravolebs when they fuck up.
They outright lie, project, deflect, deny, and blame everyone else. So sorry, yes I’m giving her some credit. I hate the tawdry sneaking around that they were doing, of course. Gross. And it’s Sandoval. Extra gross. And Ariana was her “very good best friend.” (little Forest Gump shout out) You don’t do this shit to a friend.
She should not have participated in this, despite what Sandoval was telling her. And I’m not giving her the ‘she’s only 27’ excuse either, just like I didn’t give it to James, when his excuse for cheating was that ‘he was only 21.’
In your twenties, you are an adult. It doesn’t mean you have to put on a suit, order a martini, and act like one every second, but it does mean you are responsible for your actions and you’re plenty old enough to know if you’re doing something wrong.
And I do believe he WAS running around telling people that they have this open relationship. He denies it, but he’s a fucking liar. I think he had Raquel convinced that Ariana didn’t really care if they were hooking up.
BlaBla immediately tells her it was her issue that they were bullying her around in Vegas/Lake Havasu for Baloney’s divorce party, when Raquel mentions that trip and how uncomfortable she felt.
You know Baloney’s ‘divorce trip’ — when she wasn’t even divorced. Of the many things that crack me up about Baloney, that’s the top one. She has this fucking divorce party (typically they are held when divorces are final) to ‘celebrate’ not being with Schwartz anymore, then proceeded for the ENTIRE fucking season, prance around and yell “we’re NOT EVEN divorced, he’s my husband!!!” So when it suited her, he was still her husband, and when it didn’t, he wasn’t.
Katie Baloney is an idiot, and that is that. It’s not even up for debate.
Yes there was a brief two seconds in the car ride to Lake Havasu where they stopped bullying her around. Yay them. Again, when I defend or stick up for Raquel, it’s because I hate mean girl bullying.
Hate it. Hate. It. I acknowledge she was wrong to be banging Sandoval. I mean, even if he wasn’t in a relationship, it’s just wrong to be banging Sandoval.
So yeah we have to address that convo between her and Ariana.
“Do you feel like you’re sexually attracted to him?” Yeah that was just off. Clearly she was fishing for info to make sure he was being honest with her, that they weren’t ever intimate.
That scene was also very telling, in what Ariana shared as to why she was having issues having sex with him. Like they weren’t really getting along, she was biting his head off constantly, not connecting, and not going on dates. She was like yeah, (paraphrasing) sorry he can’ just come home and whip his dick out, and expect me to be like oh yeah give it to me.
I feel like dudes over the age of like thirty, should know this. Especially dudes that are much older and have had multiple partners. I mean, yeah, maybe there’s some skank out there, maybe even one across the parking lot, (that looks like a man) that will fuck you on demand. But maybe you should look at the type of person, and her past behaviors, and perhaps that’s why she will fuck you on demand. It’s not you. It’s because that’s what she does, because that’s all that she has to offer. While sex is important, it’s not what totally makes a relationship.
I just hate people that cheat. It’s disgusting. It’s skanky. And just like we’re seeing here, of course Sandoval cheated on Ariana. He hooked up with her WHILE he was with another girl. Ariana thought she was so special, that he wouldn’t do this to her?? Yeah okay.
If you get into a relationship with a serial cheater, you will be cheated on. Make no mistake. Maybe some people get off on that, and think it’s hot. Ick.
Okay so back to this. Ariana goes off on Raquel, and tells her to fuck herself with a cheese grater, amongst other insults, which I guess she had coming.
I’ll be honest, every time I use my cheese grater, I’m going to think of fucking myself with it, and how painful it would be. And I use it pretty regularly, so thanks Ariana. (I like my fresh grated parm.) Seemed like kind of a middle school insult, from someone who claims to be so intelligent. She could have done better. Maybe she has something against cheese.
Okay, so why does Sandoval keep saying “ it was one time!!! ???”
BlaBla gets in here as we knew BlaBla would, and tries to justify her being with Randall when she KNEW he was married. Again. Yeah BlaBla, you didn’t know, sure. She just knew if she kept not asking questions, she would keep getting designer gifts and plane rides to places.
I get it, his wife wasn’t your friend, so it’s different, and yeah when you banged James, you hated Raquel, so yes, you are exonerated and have every right to sit there on your BlaBla soap box.
This chick would bang her BFF’s dude in a heartbeat, but ONLY if he was loaded. They flash on all of her sketchy and shady fucking excuses and answers when pressed about Randall before they became public.
LVP earns her check here – “you’re angry because of what happened to you Blabla, and you’re letting it create you into a bitter woman.”
Yeah and the minor detail that I know I tend to harp on, but it’s a a valid harping point. She was using Randall, she thought she was the player, and thought she had the upper hand. She thought she was going to ditch the old dude when SHE was ready. Which was probably going to be the Ahsley Darby timeline (Potomac – if you watch that ) Around a year after the baby was out.
This is why you usually don’t see two narcissists in a relationship. Their dynamic is actually unusual.
But how funny is it though? She thought she was playing him, and all along he was playing her like 8000 fiddles. Hilar. Yeah, Karma was a c*** to you too, BlaBla. It’s seriously too funny to even be real. I’m living for it!!
Is anyone wondering why Brock was part of the reunion panel last year, but isn’t this year? He was kind of on the down low on the show too. Maybe there was something I was reading last year about him not being really well-liked by the guys on the cast anymore. I’ll have to look into that. If anyone knows anything, let me know.
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Now on the table is Raquel and Schwartz’ mini-hookup. Schwartz’ voice goes up like thirty octaves.
“Is that how I look when I make out?? In my mind, I’m sexy…” He’s so funny. In a sad way.
Of course everyone robotically takes Baloney’s side, about this being so upsetting for her. Oh yes sure Baloney, you had every right to be upset. Give me a fucking break.
Poor Schwartzie thinks that they had this connection. I guess he doesn’t watch the show, because she said in her yap, there were no sparks for her, at all, and it was like kissing a relative.
Poor guy, he even looks to her for validation. The girl who’s been fucking his best friend for months, and threw him a bone by acting like she wanted to kiss him, mainly to piss off Baloney, which worked like a charm. Poor Schwartz. He’s such a lost soul.
Her behavior is bad, but she’s young, and she’s gorgeous. I can see why guys want her. I think she realizes this was wrong. Imagine being in your 50’s and ugly as fuck, look like a witch, (literally) and behaving this way. I can’t. So pathetic. Can you imagine a guy finding this appealing?? Maybe a dude that needs ‘mentally evaluated’ or better glasses. Or less whiskey.
And Raquel is right – BlaBla was jealous of her, and hated her because James stopped paying attention to her when she stepped in. BlaBla talks about Raquel twisting things to suit her narrative. Project much Ho??
A BlaBla personality type – every single thing they accuse people of – they are doing.
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So they flash on that Billie Lee scene, and it does look a little like Sandoval was feeling himself some Billie Lee, who was a guy, transitioning to a girl.
And Ariana looks on, as they interact, kind of annoyed and concerned. Did they hook up as a threesome, as Schwartz says was a rumor swirling about? I would say possibly. Or Sandoval just hooked up with her.
Andy: “Why did you do it??”
She had this special connection with him, and felt seen and heard for the first time.
Ariana interjects with “you didn’t feel seen and heard by me, I’ve been there for you.”
I think she means by a dude. James was a shit to her, she’s been “a people pleaser her whole life” and she decided to ditch that gig, and fuck Tom Sandoval. Ariana goes on another rampage. Which Raquel sucks up. No one can see she didn’t sit here and suck it up.
Andy asks “why keep going??” Really, Andy? Isn’t it obvious? He just needs to hear it. He’s gross.
Raquel replies that it was impossible to turn away from. But I think it was a lot to do with the thrill and the naughtiness.
They don’t want to answer if they’re in love or not.
“I’m sorry – yes” Sandy manages to mumble.
So the latest is that they definitely did break up last month, which is understandable after she outed him on all of his lies. And there is still the pregnancy thing floating around, that she hasn’t been seen since the reunion filming, and she’s hiding out at her grandmother’s in Arizona. If she got pregnant in March or April, she’d be due at the end of the year/beginning of 2024. So we’ll see.
Sandoval denies hooking up with her at their home on that hot tubbing night when Ariana was out of town.
Not an excuse for this slime bucket to cheat on her with her best friend, but is it not worth questioning, why in the world wouldn’t Sandoval have accompanied her to Florida to attend her grandmother’s funeral? I’m assuming he used the bar as an excuse, but it was okay to go to Mexico for Scheana’s wedding, so flimsy.
Why wouldn’t Ariana have insisted he accompany her for support. Why wouldn’t he want to accompany her for support?
To me this demonstrates a complete breakdown of this relationship. He didn’t want to go, she didn’t want him there. And SO not an excuse to cheat, but it does show where these two were at.
Don’t think that the line-up is buying they didn’t bang that night. This would have been after the initial hook-up I believe. Ariana was away, they were drinking and hot tubbing. Stop it.
It’s sad how Schwartz got brought into all of this and became Sandoval’s sort of bitch and “co-signed the lie” as Andy puts it.
“Did you ever hook up with Raquel in your home?”
“No.”
Now we’re getting a much clearer picture of why he was so desperate to be alone with her and made that huge scene about it. He so much as admitted he wanted to convince her to lie. He so stupid, he said to the Producer, and the world that they needed to get their stories straight.
And it just occurred to me (chalk it up to blonde moment) as to why he didn’t just ‘text’ her instructions of his expectation to corroborate his lies when she came on, he didn’t want his sketchy deceit documented.
I think she was threatening, to tell the whole truth, the things she came clean about in that strange interview at the end, and he was wanting to talk her out of it.
Sandoval thinks it’s unfair that their mutual friends immediately took Ariana’s side and made fun of him on social media. Oh my God, this guy. He wanted a text message, he says. It would have been nice, he says. He’s reminding of Vickie on OC, when she wanted a casserole when her dude was faking cancer.
A resounding “no one likes you.” BlaBla and James of course chime in.
Hear me out (again.) James only hates him because the girl is Raquel, his ex, that he still thinks he is in control of, much like Baloney thinks she owns Schwartz. If it were any other girl, he would be high fiving him. You know it’s true.
BlaBla only hates him because she hates literally everyone except like one or two people, so this gives her a platform to finger point (literally – did you ever notice she’s always pointing her finger when she goes off on her holier-than-thou tangents?) Every flipping narc I have known points their finger when they’re going off on a screaming lecture telling you everything that’s wrong with you. They don’t even know they’re doing it.
So when Schwartz asked Ariana how it feels to have the whole nation rallying around her, not entirely sure, since he does have a dry sense of humor, and he’s overall dry, if he meant it insincerely, or was it a real question.
I guess he was comparing her situation to his, when Katie dumped him?? I don’t know, and he’s jealous, as I can kind of appreciate and understand. However his situation of Baloney telling him she was divorcing him, is much different that this fucking messy tawdry disgusting shit.
Cheating is disgusting, no matter how you slice it and dice it, it’s gross. Not sure why anyone would want to enter into a relationship with a serial cheater. I already said that, I don’t care, I said it again.
Ariana takes this opportunity, not realizing it was kind of a rhetorical and asshole question, and goes on a long diatribe of how devastated she was, couldn’t eat, lost eight lbs, and the support is what kept her going…
And can I admit it makes me jealous of when my marriage ended, due to cheating. He had been having an affair for five years. Five years.
I didn’t capitalize off of it, get endorsements, didn’t get rich off of it, and have the support of millions of strangers telling me I was wonderful. And I did have family and friends supporting me through it, so I am grateful for that.
But fast forward to like three years ago, when tough times got bestowed upon me again, because the universe hates me, and I had ZERO support, and even had family members turn completely against me, and shut me out. Even ridiculed me and shut me me out of their life completely. Honestly I didn’t have the courage to off myself, or I would have. I stared at that tylenol pm bottle really hard one night after a series of degrading and insulting emails from my daughter and sister.
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As Ariana continues, Sandoval the bad actor, tries to look really really extra guilty and sad.
“This is gross, when is it going to click??” As she points to them.
Yes, carrying on with this tawdry little sex liason behind her back for eight months, I agree was gross. It was cowardly and gross.
The sneaking around was ‘fun’ I guess, and added to the excitement. I don’t know first- hand. I never cheated on my ex-husband or one serious boyfriend since my divorce. But from learning everything that my ex-husband was doing, and saying, and things that transpired afterwards, I do think he was thriving from the excitement and sneaking around.
Okay, so James was feeling ignored when Ariana had the floor for like almost an entire three minutes, and recounts when Raquel referred to Allie as her ‘replacement’ and he informs her, that it was more like an upgrade. Settle down there – Hypocrite Howdy Doody, nobody asked you to speak.
And Oh my effing God, he seriously dressed up as her for Halloween.
There are no words.
Creeper, yeah that’s a good one James. Although you have no room to talk. It’s creepy and lewd as fuck. And had Ariana helping him with the costume??
LVP looks like her head is going to explode, hearing this. Sometimes I wonder if she’s the biggest freak of all.
BravoCon when both Ariana and Raquel were bopping around and cheering him on right in front of the stage. Remember when Andy asked him in his seperate interview – did you get off on that?
And he did THIS reaction?? Do ya’ll remember what I said in that recap? OF COURSE he did, he was so into it. Duhh.
Fucking ick. Ick ick ick. I was right, I was so right.
And another brazen move, then she buys, on camera, a lightning bolt necklace that matches his.
Like, this chick was bold as fuck.
Also, random obsi, Charly didn’t even make the panel this season. She prob got left on the cutting room floor with this juicy scandal. I doubt there was much to cut.
LVP gets in on the action again, telling Raquel it seems like she was acting out some kind of weird charade…or demented pageant…
James quickly delivers with a line he’s been getting a lot of praise for – “she’s not going to win this pageant either, she doesn’t win those…” I did say early in the season I was finding humor in his one-liners and his constant ridicule of his cast mates in his yaps.
I do feel like Raquel is expressing remorse. And feels shitty, I do, you can hate me for that, and no it’s not an excuse, but at the very least she feels stupid and embarrassed.
I mean if this was BlaBla, she’d be sitting here with her arm leaned on the chair, in an even sluttier dress, bragging and claiming, “well you weren’t fucking your man, so I had to step in.”
You know that’s true. If you don’t know, that’s true thennnn, sorry but you’re just fucking dumb.
I hope you’re at least good looking, and have that going for you, if you believe one fucking word she says, or take this girl seriously. She is easily top three of least substantial people across all of Bravo.
Oh my God, okay, Pervo Schmervo wants to know if he has banged anyone else other than Raquel since they started their little fucking affair. He says no, OF COURSE, because he’s a fucking liar.
There was some chick in Chicago? I’m sure it’s true.
“You know who else he was with after Raquel? Me.”
“She kept her T’shirt on, it was really hot.”
Gasps around the globe at the delivery of that line. Raquel’s probably thinking, “oh wow, a T-shirt ?? Noted.”
Andy probably thought that was pretty funny, but knew he would look like a shit, so he just glazes over it, after BlaBla of course gets that finger going at Raquel, and how this is her future. I mean, she’s right but, sick of her and wish she’d shut her cannon mouth for like an entire minute.
Ridiculousness over Raquel going by ‘Raquel’ instead of Rachel, her given name, because there were other Rachel’s in her classroom in first grade.
BlaBla and that fucking finger. I wish she’d shove it up her ass. They compare the origins of their fucking nicknames. And it’s too fucking asinine to talk about. The intelligence of Blabla is just so fucking… Omg whatever, who cares. I’m running out of words, and I really need to wrap this up. They’re beating this whole thing to death.
Now Andy wants intricate deets on how it went from a ‘one night stand’ (it was never a one night stand!!) to a full relationship. And it also wasn’t a relationship. They were fuck buddies.
Period. Dot. When your whole entire so-called relationship is based on nothing but sex, it’s called a booty call or a fuck buuddy. Booty call being the more up to date term. I’m exhausted from knowing everything.
Emotions got the best of them, he claims. Okay Sandy. Ariana was ignoring you, and not having sex with you, and your precious ego was suffering, and Raquel was doing the opposite, .
At least Raquel’s a fucking knock-out, and not a sleeze bag ugly old desperate hag, that looks like a man, so you can see his attraction.
Not an excuse but just saying. That was aimed at a particular person. (I have a lovely picture I could show, of the individuals that I’m referencing, and I’m like one margarita away from doing that.)
January is when it became a real ‘relationship’ thing and Schwartz corrobs that.
If you recall, that’s the timeline that Sandoval was ordering him to divulge, as to when he knew first anything. Which was a lie.
I just don’t get how all of this detail is that important. This is how a typical affair works. It’s not fucking rocket science.
What I don’t get is someone that was cheated on, and claims to be so scarred from that, and so holier than thou, has affairs with married women?? Huh.
Scheana from the trailer, wants to know where HER apology is. It’s fucking uncanny the audicity of these assholes, who seemingly need to make this about them.
Well BlaBla makes a freudian slip because she’s too stupid to know NOT to say this out loud, by saying “she’s living for it” when Raquel points out she realizes, that she proved her right.
Like okay guys, a normal person, an actual friend would have said something like “Ya know, I didn’t want to be right, I didn’t want to believe you were capable of hurting my good friend like this.”
Not – ‘I’m living for this.’ That comment just proved ME right about BlaBla and her intentions and black black heart.
She is not really that angry at Sandoval, not concerned about Ariana, it’s about her, and HER bitterness, and HER using it an excuse to spew nasty hateful rhetoric at someone for doing something she herself has done. She has been on both sides of it, even.
I know Sandoval has zero credibility, but when he says “you don’t love Ariana dearly” he’s right. He is. He really does have her number, and she hates that. Which is what she said to him earlier, that she ‘triggers’ him. She doesn’t ‘trigger’ him, he just knows when she’s fucking lying. Takes one to know one.
Again my point of narcissists, and this type of arrogant personality, whatever they tell you that you’re doing wrong and what’s wrong with you, it’s actually true of themselves. They’re so insecure, they have to tear others down to feel good. They do all of this subconsciously because they feel guilty, and they know their truth, but need to project this whole entire other personality to the world.
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Break time, and the camera dudes follow Raquel and Sandoval to the back. I thought this was weird, when Raquel sort of like, undresses, in the wide open, in front of Sandoval and cameras.
Nothing is shown, due to the way she puts pants on first, and slips it all off, but I thought it was weird. Like she just HAD to take that dress off in that moment. (I think I saw that it still had the tag on)
I’m assuming it was done as sort of an attempt to turn him on?? Is t his another fetish of his? Similar to the T-shirt thing?
She whimpers to him that she doesn’t want to be someone that hurts other people, and is upset at being portrayed this way. Sandoval manages this: “yeah that really sucks.”
While trying to look like he thinks it sucks, as he does this dramatic lean against the wall. Did he even hear what she said?
Then they sort of have an evil sinister laughing moment at how the gang is all ‘uniting together’ over this, until they’re not.
Scheana returns and deems Raquel a sociopath.
And we’re finally wrapping up.
Andy asks Scheana if she’s planning another baby with Brock. “Not anytime soon.” She is pushing forty, but I think she has frozen eggs somewhere, so I guess that extends the timeline. Or maybe she just thinks it’s a bad idea to keep having more children when he has two on another continent that he doesn’t see or speak to.
Katie doesn’t want to be a mother, she wants to be a cool cougar aunt in another country. Okay, well I would much prefer someone who doesn’t want to have kids, own that, and just not have them. I thin she jumped on the egg freezing bandwagon too, when Stassi, Brittany, BlaBla and Scheana all had babies.
And not be someone like BlaBla who had a child for a little insurance policy, and to keep up with an ex cast mate. Now she’s stuck with a child having her and Randall’s combined disgusting DNA, and definitely not the millions of dollars she pictured having when she dumped his ass in a year or two.
And I’m not picking on that little baby, I’m just concerned for that little baby, with those two as parents.
Why does this crude dude get the floor in the ending comments?? Sandoval could have been skipped over easily since the whole fucking three hours has been about him. He fake sobs and excuses himself by saying “everyone makes mistakes” as he professes his undying love for Ariana. I want to gag.
Ariana makes the disgusted face she’s made every time he opened his mouth. This doesn’t look like the face of a devastated woman.
He addresses Ariana with more apology word vomit, and also it’s worth noting that, he gave this almost exact same speech to Kristen at the reunion when he had cheated on her with Ariana, and they first got together. I saw a side by side comparison on Insta.
You would think he would have at least come up with a new speech, and not the basic “I will always love you and want the best for you and will be cheering you on from afar.” Okay, I’m wrong, he may have added the ‘cheering you on’ thing.
This dude can really cry on queue. You would think he would have been a more successful actor, even though he is bad at it. Like Lifetime movies or something. This little performance is pathetic and embarrassing.
I don’t know what girls (and guys) expect when they enter into a relationship with a chronic cheater.
For some reason they think that they are so fucking special, and won’t be cheated on. I don’t get it.
Ariana’s response back to him is what you might expect.
LVP eludes in her little farewell speech, that they should be forgiven. I really think she is disgusted at the hypocrisy. It’s not that she doesn’t think this sucks, or that they are scum, it’s the hypocrisy. And I respect her for that. Even though she may be one too at times, it’s important that this be said, and reminded, and reiterated, and said again.
Ariana seems to have amnesia of some sort, that she completely forgets how she treated Kristen. So she has like a haughty attitude when she’s the cheater and the cheatee. Got it.
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Time for Raquel’s little come-clean sit-down a week later, to correct all of the lies that Sandoval made her tell. I guess they offered her bank to do this. And she will have a child to support soon…
I don’t know! I think it’s true! I actually thought that’s what she was going to say here.
So it’s the typical Bravo thing, where there’s a phantom producer egging her on, and asking questions.
She gets all coy when asked about specific dates of the ‘meetings.’ I mean, are we going to start asking who was on top?? Was there foreplay?
This is getting sort of out of hand. We don’t need to have pictures drawn for us. We get it, they were fucking, having sex, banging, making love, whatever. She seems to be dying to divulge this info, honestly, and not really for the sake of coming clean, it seems to me. It’s almost as if she’s proud. Producer dude presses her on the number of the hook-ups. It’s not like she was counting or anything, but you know, “it picked up speed after filming was wrapped.”
Okay, long story short, they banged ‘multiple times’ in Mexico, she went to St. Louis with him in December, there’s even a photo to document. So if I’m following this correctly, he and Ariana were together, and he brings a new girl home to mom for the holidays. Also it begs the question, why wasn’t Ariana with him? Why didn’t she want to go? She does, like, nothing.
Raquel wanted to do a throuple, or ‘sister wife’ type of set-up, and last but certainly not least, they banged at Tom’s house when Ariana was at her Grandmother’s funeral (she had to be pressed for this one, a little.)
Wow. Okay.
