Pump Rules’ Raquel Leviss Claims James Kennedy Encouraged Dog’s Biting

Raquel Leviss is providing her facet of the story about Graham Cracker getting rehomed — which led to James Kennedy gaining custody of the canine.

“There’s much more to this story, however Graham, my gosh. He has a historical past of aggression and he’s bitten me actually laborious. I already was contemplating getting a foster household whereas going into [the mental health facility] the Meadows and making an attempt it out,” Leviss, 28, informed Bethenny Frankel on half 3 of her iHeartRadio’s “ReWives” podcast look, which was launched on Friday, August 18.

“There’s a motive why I didn’t need James to have Graham,” Leviss — who dated Kennedy, 31, from 2016 to 2021 — defined. “He doesn’t have canine expertise and he’s a part of the explanation why Graham is a biter. James would encourage Graham to chew his fingers laborious, and he preferred that sensation, so after all that educated Graham to be a biter.”

Vanderpump Guidelines viewers have been launched to Graham whereas Kennedy and Leviss have been nonetheless collectively. Following their cut up in late 2021, Leviss remained Graham’s main guardian for the reason that canine was a present from her mother and father. Final month, nevertheless, Kennedy revealed that he was again in possession of Graham amid Leviss’ 90-day keep at a psychological well being facility.

“Look who made his approach again residence, again into my life. I’ll handle you without end, and I really like you,” Kennedy, who has since renamed Graham to Hippie, captioned the Instagram submit of him and the canine on a ship whereas filming season 11.

Rumors swirled on the time about how Graham ended up with Kennedy after Lisa Vanderpump and her Vanderpump Canine Rescue group acquired phrase that the canine was in a rescue heart. Leviss’ mom, Laura, clarified that an incident led to the choice to give up Graham to trainers at California Doodle Rescue, who later contacted Vanderpump, 62, with out her data.

In line with Leviss, the selection to seek out Graham a brand new residence got here after she exhausted different choices.

“My canine Graham bit my mother’s hand all the way down to the bone, and it was so unhealthy she couldn’t even get stitches. I had the choice to both go away the Meadows and return and handle my canine, or attempt to get him rehomed and end out my therapy, as a result of I knew I had extra to work on,” she continued on Friday. “So I selected myself and we researched a breed-specific canine rescue, they usually took him in moreover his biting conduct. Backside line, he couldn’t get rehomed.”

The previous magnificence pageant queen was stunned Vanderpump acquired concerned. “It was presupposed to be a confidential, nameless [decision] as a result of it’s no one else’s enterprise,” she continued.

Leviss went on to assert that she reached out to Vanderpump concerning the state of affairs. Her former boss, nevertheless, responded by encouraging Leviss to talk her fact in entrance of a digicam. Leviss accused the Vanderpump Guidelines solid and producers of utilizing her former canine as a “pawn” to get her to return to the present after she left within the aftermath of her scandal with Tom Sandoval.

“I believed it was a joke at first [when I saw Graham with James]. My coronary heart dropped to my abdomen. There was an image of James strolling Graham, and I used to be like, ‘No.’ Instantly, my mother known as the foster who was working with Graham, and he or she mentioned, ‘Oh, it’s so pretty. Lisa adopted him,’” she recalled. “So now the narrative is, I dumped my canine at a shelter and he was hours away from being euthanized and that’s not true.”

Later within the podcast, Leviss made it clear that she has no plans to return to actuality TV as Vanderpump Guidelines continues to movie with Sandoval, 41, Ariana Madix, Scheana Shay, Lala Kent, Katie Maloney, Tom Schwartz and Kennedy. Leviss is nevertheless planning her subsequent steps, which embody beginning a podcast.