Raquel Leviss is a villain in yet another scandal: Puppygate 2
Looks like Graham Cracker is the cause of s’more drama.
Years after Lisa Vanderpump’s “Puppygate” drama and on the heels of “Scandoval,” trouble magnet “Vanderpump Rules” star Raquel Leviss is caught up in another hairy situation — one we’ll call “Puppygate 2.”
The crisis began brewing when Leviss and fiancé James Kennedy called it quits in 2021 — that’s when Leviss got full custody of the couple’s fur baby, an adorable golden doodle puppy named Graham Cracker.
Fast forward to now, and Kennedy is heard declaring that Graham had come “back into [his] life,” as Page Six reported.
But here’s the latest poop scoop — little Graham turns out to have had quite the ruff journey home to his papa.
New intel alleges that Leviss, who recently spent some time at a mental health facility, had Graham dropped off at a shelter due to “behavioral issues — mostly a biting problem.”
Alleged horrible person Leviss, 28, was already in hot water with her “Vanderpump Rules” co-stars and fans, largely due to her monthslong affair with not-so-single Tom Sandoval. Needless to say, the internet has not reacted well to news that she is also a bad puppy parent.
But Leviss’ mother Laura told Entertainment Tonight that it wasn’t a shelter, rather a rehab center called California Doodle Rescue, which she sought out — together with her daughter — as a last resort after being bitten “to the bone, causing severe damage.”
According to Laura, two doctors who treated her wounds recommended Graham be euthanized.
In the end, Vanderpump Dog Foundation, the nonprofit rescue foundation founded by Lisa Vanderpump and husband Ken Todd in 2015, reportedly found out that Graham was in trouble — and arranged to have him reunited with Kennedy.
“Spending months trying to convince people that rachel (and/or raquel) wasn’t that bad she was just misunderstood only for her to dump her dog at a shelter instead of with its other doggie parent,” one regretful Raquel apologist told her social media followers.
“At this point, I don’t know if it’s wise for Raquel to return to #PumpRules,” another warned. “Y’all know how people are about dogs.”
Other fans weren’t so quick to judge, and wonder if there’s more to the story.
“I wonder if this is more to make her look bad,” pondered one sympathetic Tweeter. “I think that poor girl needs to stay away from that group, move to NYC and start over.”
Devoted Bravoheads may recall that the initial Puppygate kicked off in 2019 when Dorit Kemsley adopted a puppy from Vanderpump Dogs during Season 9 of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
The dog — unforgettably named “Lucy Lucy Apple Juice” — was given to another owner when Kemsley decided she wasn’t the right fit, but this second owner dumped poor Lucy off at a shelter.
News got back to Lisa Vanderpump, who absolved Kemsley of blame because she didn’t know that the poor pup had been cast aside, but the scandal lived on in the minds of viewers.
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