Rachel Leviss Says It’s ‘Hard’ Dating ‘A Sweet Guy’ After Scandoval

“Vanderpump Rules” star Rachel Leviss discussed her cautious return to dating on her podcast, highlighting her preference for emotionally intelligent partners after taking a 12 months off to work on herself.

In accordance with Leviss, it has been a struggle for her up to now “a sweet guy” after her highly publicized affair scandal with former castmate Tom Sandoval.

Rachel Leviss also recounted her healing process post-Scandoval at The Meadows rehab center, where she carried a “shame backpack” stuffed with derogatory comments.

In a recent episode of her podcast, “Rachel Goes Rogue,” Leviss chatted with “Love Undercover’s” Renee Ash about her criteria for future relationships.

Following her highly publicized affair with Sandoval last 12 months, Leviss mentioned she’s now approaching the dating scene with caution.

“I’ve taken a 12 months off of dating to work on myself,” she shared, per People magazine. “And now that I’m, you already know, getting back on the market and meeting latest people – I met someone who I had awesome communication with, and he was very emotionally intelligent and emotionally regulated, and it just didn’t work out.”

She added: “I’ve type of been seeing any person else, and it has been fun and a fling — he’s just so sweet, so kind, and it really does make a difference,” seemingly hinting at businessman Matthew Dunn, whom she confirmed dating in April.

On the podcast, Ash and Leviss discussed the importance of recognizing kindness in men despite past unpleasant experiences.

“This sounds so silly, like a typical, stuff that you simply would just have as basic benchmarks for relationships,” Leviss remarked.

“The Vanderpump Rules” star confessed that her history of “toxic” and “abusive” relationships makes it difficult to ascertain a future with kind men.

“It’s hard for me to be with a sweet guy and consider it as a serious long-term thing,” she explained. “I do not see him as my husband.”

Ash, agreeing with Leviss’ sentiments, said she is working on normalizing kindness in her dating life reasonably than excusing bad behavior.

Leviss then noted that attending to know various kinds of men helps them understand their true desires.

“I feel we want to experience that sweetness and that other side of the spectrum so as to find a superb balance,” she said.

After the Scandoval drama, Leviss revealed that she checked herself into The Meadows, a mental health rehabilitation center in Arizona.

The 29-year-old reality star discussed her healing process. She mentioned using an activity to release the conflict with former co-star Ariana Madix.

“One in every of the assignments was a shame backpack,” she explained. “Where principally, I used to be instructed to write down down every mean thing that I could recall being thrown my way. All of the insults, all of the name calling, all of the derogatory comments that I could remember.”

She added that the power created a book from each paper Leviss wrote on, which she then carried around. “It was very, very heavy,” she said. “I needed to wear that backpack all over the place I went for every week.”

Through the chat, Leviss admitted that while the “shame” backpack “did hurt my back,” it helped her understand her healing process.

“After I was processing through this project with my therapist, I needed to read the entire comments, after which my therapist asked me if I desired to take them on and to hold them with me for the remaining of my life,” she explained. “I said, ‘No, I do not.’ And I used to be instructed to tear up the entire pieces of paper.”

During that very same week, Leviss mentioned that one other resident at the middle found a newspaper with a headline about her affair with Madix’s then-boyfriend, Tom Sandoval. The front page featured an image of Leviss and Madix.

“I actually had this in my shame backpack, and it’s just so wild that it literally made its way into The Meadows [rehab facility],” she said. “It was kinda surreal that this got here into my possession that week of my project.”

She  continued, “That taught me to not internalize the entire hate and shame directed at me because life is way harder once you carry that burden.”

Because the fallout from her scandalous affair with Sandoval, Leviss has seemingly gotten her life together and is now dating businessman Matthew Dunn.

In a chat with People magazine, Leviss’ publicist confirmed that two were an item, saying, “It’s slightly too soon to leap to any labels.”

The publicist added, “They met slightly over a month ago and are friends just attending to know one another. They met and are hanging out.”