Bravo Reacts to Rachel Leviss' Claims Scandoval Was 'Fabricated' to Keep 'Vanderpump Rules' on the Air

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Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss' claims that the intense Scandoval drama in season 10 of the reality series was «fabricated» to keep the Bravo series alive.«Tom Sandoval was never offered a producer credit on Season 11 and had absolutely no creative control over editing during any season of ,» a Bravo spokesperson tells ET of Leviss' claims that her estranged lover may have been pulling strings behind the scenes of the recent season.In an interview with Bethenny Frankel, the 28-year-old reality star shared that she felt betrayed by Tom Sandoval after their affair was revealed in the season's explosive tenth season.

Sandoval had been seeing co-star Ariana Madix since 2013 when she first joined Vanderpump Rules, and it wasn't long after they announced their split in early March that news broke that Sandoval was cheating on Madix with Leviss.The cheating scandal, dubbed Scandoval, was a significant plot point in season 10 of the Bravo reality series.

It all went down after Madix discovered a NSFW video of Leviss on Sandoval's phone. «I felt very betrayed. I felt like I couldn’t trust this person,» Leviss said of learning Sandoval recorded her. «I felt like my privacy didn’t matter to him and he didn’t really give a good excuse besides he wanted me to see it later on to see how beautiful I was.

But if he would have asked for permission I would have said no.»Leviss went on to claim that an alleged scene of her confronting Sandoval about filming her never aired in season 10 of, saying, «he ended up boycotting filming the rest of Scandoval so that he could have editing rights to that scene to take out that specific piece.»«Is he a producer?» Frankel asked. «He’s not technically a producer, he’s been on the series from day.