Raquel Leviss Blocks Tom Sandoval After He Wishes Her ‘Peace and Happiness’ on Her 29th Birthday: ‘OK Bye!’

Rachel “Raquel” Leviss is lighting birthday candles — and bridges, obviously — as she turns 29.

As Vanderpump Rules alum marks another turn around the sun, she signaled on Instagram Story that she has blocked ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval.

Leviss made major changes in her life six months after Bravo’s Scandoval broke when news of her months-long affair with Sandoval — then actress Ariana Madix’s boyfriend of nine years — broke.

After switching back to her birth name Rachel in mid-August, the former pageant contestant also recently updated her Instagram bio to read: “Becoming a better person… one day at a time.” She also deleted her initial mea culpa to Madix, 38, from early March last month – which appeared to represent her desire to start a new chapter after completing a 90-day stint in a mental health facility.

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Two days before her birthday, Leviss posted a video of herself in a bucolic setting on Instagram with the caption: “I dreamed of a place like this 🌻 #flowerfarm #flowerarranging”

Sandoval, 41, commented on the post on Monday, writing, “Happy birthday Rachel, I really hope you find peace and happiness. I miss you my friend.”

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Not long after, the birthday girl posted an Instagram Story with a screenshot of her blocked Sandoval Instagram account.

She included a hot pink sticker with a white “OK bye!” which served as an inscription and, apparently, a farewell.

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Rachel Leviss/Instagram

Five months ago, Leviss — who will not be returning for Season 11 VPR – shared in a statement: “I want to apologize for my actions and my choices first and foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and fans who have invested so much in our relationship.”

“There is no excuse, I am not a victim and I have to own up to my actions and I deeply regret hurting Ariana,” she said in part. “I’m thinking about my choices, talking to a counselor and learning things about myself such as my patterns of codependency and addiction to being and feeling loved. I’ve sought emotional validation through intimate relationships that are not healthy regardless of my own well-being, sometimes negatively influencing others and often prioritizing intimacy over my friendships.”

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Leviss said she is “taking steps to understand her behavior and make healthier choices.”

On Monday, after posting a screenshot showing her breaking up with her former costar, she shared another, much happier picture from her trip to the flower farm.

“Thank you for the birthday wishes,” she wrote, adding a glowing emoji.

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Raquel Leviss started an affair with Tom Sandoval because she didn’t see ‘Longevity’ for him and Ariana Madix

Back in April, the former SUR waitress signed up for “mental health and trauma therapy.”

In her first interview since leaving treatment, the Bravo star offered new insight into how her view of Sandoval and Madix’s relationship influenced her decision to engage in an affair.

“I wouldn’t have been involved in this kind of secrecy about the affair if I thought this relationship between Tom and Ariana was long-lasting,” she said on the Bethenny Frankel show. Only B podcast.

“People who were closest to them could see that their relationship was not what they portrayed on camera,” she said, “and Tom always told me that they are the brand, they are the image, that they work together to make brand deals and they’re business partners. They’re a duo on the show and they’re using that to help their brand or image succeed.”

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Still, Leviss admitted he has “a lot” of regrets and “would have done everything differently if I had the chance to go back.”

“I really just want to acknowledge that a lot of people believed in me and I feel like I was a disappointment to those people,” she told Frankel, 52. “I know there was a lot of trust that was broken between the friendship and the betrayal that happened.”

She added: “I look back on my actions and I am disappointed in myself. That’s not the person I want to be. I wasn’t happy. It really hurt.”

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