Scheana Shay Breaks Down Alleged Raquel Leviss Fight, Restraining Order Hearing After Scandoval Drama

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Scheana Shay Breaks Down Alleged Raquel Leviss Fight, Restraining Order Hearing After Scandoval Drama

Ready to move on — and share the “Scheananigans” of what went down. Scheana Shay opened up about her ongoing drama with Vanderpump Rules costar Raquel Leviss.

“It’s been a day. It hasn’t completely hit me yet,” Shay, 37, said on her “Scheananigans” podcast, which dropped a new episode on Friday, March 31, two days after her hearing. “I feel utterly exhausted [and] I’ll probably cry on this. It’s been a lot.”

The “Good as Gold” singer was present in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, March 29, after Leviss, 28, had filed a temporary restraining order following their March 2 fight. Shay’s attorney, Neama Rahmani, later confirmed to Us Weekly that the former pageant queen had been absent at the hearing.

“When Rachel realized that she would lose in court and that she couldn’t just drop it, she decided to not show up at all,” Rahmani told Us in a Wednesday statement, using Leviss’ birth name. “We were prepared to expose Rachel’s lies, but instead she will have to live knowing that she betrayed two of her best friends: Scheana and Ariana [Madix].”

Leviss alleged in court docs that Shay had punched her — resulting in alleged bruises on her face — after learning about the California native’s affair with Tom Sandoval. (Sandoval, 40, had been in a longterm relationship with Madix, 37, at the time of his secret affair with Leviss.)

“No, I did not punch her,” Shay claimed to costar Lala Kent during Friday’s episode, which was taped on Wednesday hours after she left the courtroom. “We’ve established I can’t really form a fist with these nails.”

Kent, 31, quipped: “[It’s] scientifically impossible with those nails!”

Shay further explained that she had only shoved Leviss because she was so stunned by the affair revelation.

“There’s barkers and there’s biters in this group. And that night, I was a biter. I had no words because nothing was getting through to her,” Shay claimed. “When she touched me, I was just so enraged. I was just like, ‘Get off me! Get out of my space.’ I just needed her away from me in that moment.”

She added: “The fact that she had not a single tear, no remorse. She [later] sat at the reunion and did not shed one tear. I could not believe that, and that’s how she was that night.”

Leviss and the TomTom founder — who have both apologized to Madix for their actions — reunited with their Vanderpump Rules costars on March 23 to film the season 10 reunion.

“The cast was out of control and Lala Kent and James Kennedy went crazy,” a source exclusively told Us earlier this month, revealing Scandoval was a central topic of conversation at the upcoming special. “James took on Tom Sandoval while Lala took on Raquel Leviss and they both just lit them on fire and burned them alive with their shade. Lala and James literally screamed at Raquel and Tom for hours.”

While a release date for the reunion has not been revealed by Bravo, many cast members and host Andy Cohen have teased that sparks were flying — and security had to intervene.

Scroll below for more of Shay’s biggest “Scheananigans” revelations about her feud with Leviss:

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Raquel’s MIA From the Hearing

Shay recalled on Friday that she felt drained after driving to the courthouse in the rain before even noticing that “Rachel Leviss hadn’t even showed up.”

Kent, for her part, noted that she “had a feeling” Leviss would be absent after serving Shay “bulls—t papers” at the reunion, allegedly dropping her claims. “[They] weren’t even filed,” Shay chimed in on Friday. “Like, another stunt!”

The Give Them Lala author even speculated that Leviss likely thought she’d “get a lot of sympathy” after filing her TRO and Shay “won over the Internet by allegedly punching her even though you didn’t.”

The TRO was ultimately dropped on Wednesday, with Shay proclaiming during her podcast that she was “finally free.”

A source close to Leviss told Us that Shay and her legal team had been "notified" of her intent to drop the TRO, and that she informed the court of her absence before Wednesday. The insider added: "Raquel stands by her initial statement that Scheana punched her in the face supported by photos of her bruised eyebrow bone and slashed eyebrow."

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What Really Happened After ‘WWHL’

“That’s how my hands ended up on her after she grabbed my wrist,” Shay admitted after Leviss confessed her affair with the Missouri native. “No, I did not punch her. We’ve established I can’t really form a fist with these nails. I had no words because nothing was getting through her.”

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Scheana Felt ‘Enraged’ After Scandoval

The Bravo star explained during Friday's episode that she felt “enraged” after WWHL because “there was not one tear in [Raquel's] eye” while both she and Madix were “sobbing” and “deeply hurt.” (The Fancy AF Cocktails author was not in New York City with Shay and Leviss, and was crying during a phone call with her pals.)

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Breaking Down Raquel's Alleged Bruises

After filing her TRO, Leviss claimed that she had a black eye and a scar above her eyebrow from where Shay allegedly smacked her. At the time, Shay denied striking her costar.

“[On] Saturday, she had a FaceTime with [our mutual friend] and she wasn’t bruised really at all,” Shay alleged. “Just her normal how she looks without makeup, but then [on] Saturday afternoon, [she] goes to urgent care and it’s much darker than it was on FaceTime [because he took a screenshot with her permission]. … Then, two days later she’s seen out in photographs and the scratch is gone.”

She added: “And now all this ‘I have a permanent scar’ [talk]? Bitch, I got whacked in the face with a f—king nine-iron and my scar ain’t that bad.”

Kent chimed in that it was “just called 'you need to be microbladed in that area.'"

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‘Evil and Darkness’ in Her ‘Bambi Eyes’

“At this point, I’ve said everything I wanted to say at the reunion,” Shay told Kent during the podcast episode. “There’s nothing I have to say to her face because it’s not going to go through, nothing’s gonna process. She’s just gonna look at me with those stupid Bambi eyes [and] now I see evil and darkness in.”

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Missing Raquel's ‘Red Flags'

Shay admitted during her podcast that there were “a lot of red flags” that she missed about Leviss’ affair before the scandal made headlines. She realized that something was up when the former Miss Sonoma County didn’t post concert footage after attended the Tom Sandoval and the Most Extras gig in Rosewood, California, in November 2022. Kent, for her part, thought it was strange that Leviss had suddenly stopped sharing her location with the group.

“How could I allow someone so evil into my home, around my family, over for holidays?” Shay said, noting her relief that Leviss never babysat for daughter Summer, whom she shares with husband Brock Davies. “I don’t trust [her] with my kid, like, I actually wouldn’t allow [her] to babysit.”

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Lala Kent Says Raquel Was ‘Scary’ at the Reunion

“She actually smiled [at the reunion taping], it was actually scary,” the Give Them Lala Beauty founder confessed to Shay. “It was like watching the Joker!”

Shay also alleged that Leviss acted the same way after the WWHL altercation, imitating her initial remark, “Oops, I slept with him for seven months. My bad.”