“Vanderpump Guidelines” co-stars Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss could have connected lengthy earlier than their months-long affair was revealed.

Within the newest episode of Web page Six’s “Reali-Tea” podcast, podcaster Tracie Morrissey of “Pot Psychology” defined why she believes the key lovers first acquired bodily with one another in the summertime of 2019.

Morrissey pointed to a scene in “Pump Guidelines” Season 8, Episode 9, that noticed Leviss folding napkins with two former SUR staff: Dayna Kathan and Danica Dow.

Leviss informed them she had gone out with the women the evening prior, saying she acquired so drunk that she got here house, left her purse on the counter and went to sleep.

She stated her then-boyfriend, James Kennedy, was livid he couldn’t get in contact along with her and that she woke as much as “rage texts” from him calling her names like “slut” and “whore.”

Throughout that scene, Bravo flashed again to the evening in query.

“They confirmed this actually quick montage of Raquel being wasted, like, dancing and out with folks,” Morrissey informed podcast hosts Evan Actual and Danny Murphy.

“And it’s simply such a fast flash, however should you pause it, you’ll see that it’s really Tom Sandoval [taking the] selfie video. You see half of his face, and it’s 100% him. It’s very apparent it’s him. And she or he’s leaning on him and stuff.”

A couple of episodes later documented Ariana Madix’s celebration. (Madix dated Sandoval for almost a decade till she discovered about his dalliance with Leviss in early March.)

“And James is speaking to Raquel concerning the [‘rage text’] incident, and he mentions — and she or he virtually talks over him when he does it — he’s like, ‘However you don’t flip your telephone off. You shouldn’t flip your telephone off,’” Morrissey stated.

“So her telephone was turned off. It wasn’t on the kitchen counter in her purse; it was turned off.”

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Morrissey felt Leviss’ rationalization to her co-workers “sounded just a little too rehearsed” and “very deliberate,” suggesting she spent the evening with Sandoval and that he coached her on methods to spin the story.

Morrissey went on to say that she first seen Leviss utilizing the lightning bolt — a secret image of her love for Sandoval — on Instagram about two weeks later.

Throughout the Season 10 reunion, which was filmed shortly after everybody discovered about Scandoval, the bar proprietor, 40, saved insisting that he and Leviss had a one-night stand after which didn’t have intercourse once more for some time.

Nevertheless, each he and Leviss, 28, claimed that the preliminary tryst occurred in August 2022.

“I believe there’s like a nugget of fact there the place it did occur as soon as after which it didn’t occur once more for a very long time,” Morrissey informed us, however she thinks that size of time was really years and never weeks.

She additionally pointed to the Season 9 reunion in late 2021, throughout which Leviss referred to as off her engagement to Kennedy, 31. (Sandoval had spent hundreds of his personal {dollars} serving to Kennedy plan an elaborate proposal.)

“They really panned to Sandoval, and he’s simply scared,” Morrissey famous. “After which he simply begins laughing, like, actually giddy. … And [his castmates] have been like, ‘Why are you laughing about this?’ And he was like, ‘I don’t know, I’m simply excited about the engagement.’”

It got here throughout to Morrissey like Sandoval was “attempting to play it off,” hypothesizing that he “couldn’t comprise” how “glad” he was that the previous magnificence pageant queen was single.