Scheana Shay and Raquel Leviss’ Alleged Physical Fight: What We Know, What the ‘Pump Rules’ Cast Has Said

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Scheana Shay and Raquel Leviss' Alleged Physical Fight: What We Know, What the ‘Pump Rules’ Cast Has Said

The legal side of Scandoval. Scheana Shay’s alleged reaction to Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ affair briefly landed her in legal trouble. Us Weekly confirmed on March 3 that Sandoval and Leviss had a secret relationship behind Ariana Madix’s back. (Sandoval and Madix, who started dating in 2014 and bought a home together in 2019, split over the infidelity.) Reports subsequently surfaced that Shay got physical with Leviss when she learned about the scandal after the Vanderpump Rules costars taped Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on March 1. Leviss subsequently filed an order of protection against Shay and detailed the alleged incident. “[Scheana] pushed me against [a] brick wall causing injury to back of [my] head and punched me in the face causing injury to my left eye,” the former beauty queen alleged in the court filing, claiming she has a cut above her left eye and “blurred vision.” She also included pics of the alleged injuries and detailed why she is taking legal action: “Currently mutual friends and coworkers are telling me she doesn't regret the physical attack on me and would do it again if she found that further emotional distress was caused to our mutual friend.” Shay subtly addressed the situation for the first time by “liking” a tweet that read: “If what they are saying @scheana did after WWHL is true she is the ULTIMATE RIDE OR DIE friend. Everyone needs a friend like Scheana. #pumprules #teamariana.” [jwplayer jImwTXMo-zhNYySv2] The restraining order against Shay isn’t the only action Leviss has taken. She also sent a letter to her costars about the alleged video of her and Sandoval that Madix discovered on March 1. In the legal notice, Leviss' team claimed the footage was recorded "illegally" and "without the permission” of Leviss, warning the group to delete the video as “forwarding the recording to another person, even if only to one other person” is a violation of California law. The paperwork reportedly addresses Madix directly, noting Leviss’ lawyers ”appreciate the distress that this may have caused you” but sharing the clip could result in “criminal and civil penalties." "We hereby demand that you delete the recording from your phone and from the cloud and from any other manner or method in which the recording may exist,” the letter reads, per Entertainment Tonight. “Additionally, we demand that you advise this office immediately in writing of all people to whom you have forwarded this recording or who you may have allowed to view this recording." Kristen Doute later revealed the nature of the video, which was taken by Sandoval. “I was actually with Ariana and Tom [on March 1]. We were watching the band play at TomTom and he’s done playing and we all had gotten up to just kind of chatter and grab a drink. Then all of a sudden, I realize Ariana is gone for — it had to be 20 minutes. She left her coat and her purse on the chair,” the former Bravo personality said on her “Sex, Love and What Else Matters” podcast on March 8. “During Tom’s performance, his phone fell out of his pocket or something and somebody — a mutual friend — picks up the phone, hands it to Ariana. … Ariana had his phone and she told me that she just had this gut intuition to look at it. They are, like, a trusting couple … She just found, like, she had to look. So she went into his photos. He had screen recorded a FaceTime of him and Raquel masturbating with each other. That’s the truth.” Both Leviss and Sandoval have apologized to Madix in separate statements. Leviss addressed the nature of their relationship on March 9 after the affair was exposed. “Besides the indefensible circumstances surrounding our relationship, my feelings for Tom have always been sincere and born out of a loving friendship. Knowing how many people we hurt, I need to understand my choices and learn to make better ones. I need to take care of my health, work on self growth and take time to be OK with being alone,” she wrote. “I care for Tom and I don’t want to label anything or predict what lies ahead. Right now I need to heal.” After the season 10 reunion taped on March 23, Leviss released a statement revealing that she intended to drop the restraining order. “I can confirm that my attorney took my case off the court calendar Wednesday and is filing the appropriate paperwork requested by the court today to dismiss the TRO from moving forward after the 29th,” Leviss said in a statement on March 24. “We let the court know I will not be moving forward with a permanent restraining order.” Scroll through for more on the legal drama:

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When Did Scheana Allegedly Hit Raquel?

Shay and Leviss filmed WWHL on March 1. In the filing, Leviss lists March 2 at 1:30 a.m. local time as the date and time of the alleged attack.

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What Are Raquel’s Alleged Injuries From Scheana?

Leviss wrote that Shay “pushed me against brick wall causing injury to back of head and punched me in the face causing injury to my left eye.”

She alleged that Shay caused her “black eye and cut with scar to the left eyebrow, blurred vision and swelling to left eye.”

Shay’s lawyer later told Us that his client “pushed” Leviss — and maintained she never “punched” her costar.

“We’ve always wanted to be honest and transparent about what happened. We intended to do so at today's hearing, but there was no punch. [The] punch never happened. It was dark circles under Raquel's eyes — those have been there for months. She just has that discoloration. And I know lots of fans of the of the show have messaged and commented pointing all that out,” Rahmani told Us on March 29. “With respect to the push, Scheana did push Raquel, but it was after Raquel grabbed her wrist. It was a reasonable force. It was necessary. I mean, look, Scheana is, at best, maybe 5’5, you know, Raquel [is] 5’10, she's wearing heels. For Raquel to argue that Scheana could even punch her in the eye or cut her eyebrow. I mean, that's just absolutely inconsistent with the height differential and the size differential of these two women.”

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Has Scheana Responded to Raquel’s Restraining Order?

Shay was ordered stay at least 100 yards away from Leviss, her home and her workplace ahead of their March 29 hearing. Shay spoke out in an exclusive statement to Us.

“This case is a fabrication by a known liar and a cheat who has betrayed everyone close to her. Scheana never punched Raquel, period,” lawyer Neama Rahmani told Us. “The supposed dark markings around her left eye have been there for months. Neither Scheana nor other cast members want anything to do with Raquel going forward. The judge has only heard a one-sided account of what happened, and we look forward to presenting the full and true story at the March 29 hearing.”

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How Did Raquel’s Restraining Order Affect the ‘Pump Rules’ Season 10 Reunion?

Us confirmed that Bravo had two seating charts for the reunion to keep Shay and Leviss on stage at different times. Leviss claimed one day after the taping that her “team tried to work with Scheana on a mutually beneficial agreement hoping to get the TRO dropped earlier so we could film together” before their March 29 hearing.

“The TRO was intended to provide a cooling-off period after I was punched but I didn’t want to continue with the permanent RO nor did I want to cause Scheana further agony and stress,” Leviss told Us, acknowledging that she brought new legal docs to the reunion. “The document was a dismissal form that the court asked us to submit and I wanted to show Scheana my intentions and that we had informed the judge we weren’t moving forward - and it was an explanation at the reunion to alleviate Scheana’s concerns.”

Shay’s lawyer, meanwhile, called Leviss bringing paperwork to the reunion a PR stunt.

“Rachel had Andy ‘serve’ Scheana with a document during the reunion, but the papers have no legal meaning. It was a request to dismiss a complaint or a civil lawsuit, but Rachel had requested a permanent restraining order, which is something completely different,” Rahmani told Us. “There is no way for Rachel to ‘drop’ the temporary restraining order before next week’s hearing. This is California law and even on the court’s website. Even if Rachel had the correct document, which she didn’t, it wasn’t filed with the court. There is no file stamp in the top right corner. This was just another public relations stunt by Rachel and her team. If Rachel really wanted to make this go away, she would come out and publicly say the ‘punch’ never happened and she is sorry for all the harm she caused Scheana, Ariana and her other friends.”

After Leviss released her statement, Rahmani added: “Rachel and her team continue to lie about what happened and mislead fans of the show about the legal process. Rachel can’t just file a false police report, ask for a multi-year restraining order, and act like everything is OK. There are real legal consequences of her actions.”

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What Happened at Scheana and Raquel’s Hearing?

After Leviss made her intentions to drop the restraining order clear, she didn’t attend the March 29 hearing. Shay’s lawyer subsequently confirmed that order was dismissed — and the reality star spoke to photographers outside of the courthouse.

“She didn't drop it, which is why we had to come here today. With this type of restraining order, there's no way to dismiss the case. That's why we had to show up,” Shay said. “But I think her absence today further proves that this was all a PR stunt from the beginning to deflect from the affair, save face, you know, abuse the court system. There's people out there who actually need this. There are real victims of domestic violence out there. There's amazing organizations such as Futures Without Violence [and] LifeWire who helped people who really need this.”

When asked whether she would be friends with Leviss again, Shay responded: “Hell no!”

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Will Scheana and Raquel’s Legal Drama Be on ‘Vanderpump Rules’?

In the first footage of Shay post-Scandoval — teased in the midseason trailer — she gets emotional.

“This is a full-blown love affair,” Shay says in a clip filmed at Madix’s house days after the news broke. “I had so much rage in me.”

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Lisa Vanderpump Reacts

“Yeah, I think she did. I think she slapped her around the chops,” the SUR boss told Cohen on March 8 when asked whether Shay hit Leviss. “But you know what, her feelings would be running really high because Ariana was her best friend for like 12 years.”

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Lala Kent Reacts

“I’ve talked to Scheana. That never came up to me,” Kent claimed on Amazon Live on March 7.

On her podcast days later, Kent noted: “I’m not a physical person because I’m not trying to catch a case. Also, there’s something about putting my hands on someone that feels ick. … I’ve never really been a physical person that’s why I talk the way I do. I don’t know how the rest of my cast is going to be [at the reunion]. I think there will be a lot of security, for sure.”

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Kristen Doute Reacts

"[Ariana] called Raquel. Raquel and Scheana were together after Watch What Happens Live — and a lot of this is on the internet but the truth of what happened is – Raquel was kind of — I’m just going to say it — f—king dumb, OK?” Doute claimed on her podcast. “And she’s like, walking around all Raquel-like, and Scheana’s like, ‘Who are you on the phone with? What is going on?’ And too casually, [Raquel] says, ‘I’m talking to Ariana. Sandoval and I had a 7-month affair.’ You’re telling this to Ariana’s best friend. So she threw Raquel’s phone in the gutter.”

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Stassi Schroeder Reacts

"I will not confirm nor deny," Schroeder said on her podcast of the fight.