“Oh, hell no,” Raquel said during the Aug. 18 episode of Just B with Bethenny Frankel in response to whether she might ever return to TV. “No because I refuse to not respect myself on that level where I would endure that emotional abuse any longer. I can’t do that to myself.”
And while Tom seems to have taken the opposite approach—signing on for season two of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test in addition to season 11 of VPR—one former costar is supporting Raquel’s decision to make her exit.
“I don’t think that reality TV is for everyone,” Lala Kent‘ said on the Aug. 23 episode of her Give Them Lala podcast. “It is a very intense environment. If you are not mentally tough as f–k, it can break you. It definitely can.”
She did, however, hold her former costar accountable for her actions amid her and Tom’s affair and the ensuing fallout.
“Now, to say that Raquel was a victim of something, I don’t know,” Lala added. “What I do know is you made a decision to sleep with your best friend’s partner of 10 years. You didn’t need to do that. No one was forcing you to do it and no one asked you to do that.”
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