Vanderpump Rules’ Raquel Leviss Says She Had ‘Nightmares’ About Marrying Ex James Kennedy, Gives Back Engagement Ring in Reunion Teaser

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Split SUR-prise. Raquel Leviss and James Kennedy tiptoed around their breakup news in the first look at the Vanderpump Rules season 9 reunion — which was filmed just days after they called off their engagement in December 2021.“Something is afoot,” host Andy Cohen says in the reunion’s teaser, which dropped on Tuesday, January 18, while looking at Raquel, 27, and James, 29.

Raquel then admits that she was “having nightmares about our wedding day” before they pulled the plug on the romance.The former couple announced their split via social media on December 5.

When they arrived to film the show’s reunion two days prior, however, none of their castmates knew they were no longer a couple.“Do you feel like she’s still your soulmate?” Cohen, 53, host asks the British TV personality in the new teaser as the exes try to explain what went wrong.As the promo continues, Scheana Shay turns to Ariana Madix to see whether she knew anything about the breakup.

Ariana, 36, responds, “No idea.”Lisa Vanderpump is later shown confronting James during the taping and claiming that he fooled everyone with his and Raquel’s romance. “We believed what you were showing us was the truth,” Lisa, 61, says in the video, to which James replies, “It was.”The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, however, isn’t convinced, adding, “But it wasn’t!”Things take a dramatic turn when Raquel asks James if he wanted her engagement ring back right then, proceeding to pull the diamond sparkler off her hand and seemingly returning it to her former fiancé.Raquel and James got engaged in May 2021 after five years of dating.