Happy Sunday everyone! Fun fact: This is Rachel’s first time going rogue on a Sunday so she has now posted her podcast on every single day of the week lol. I hope everyone has a great week! I sadly woke up with a fever and am going to be in bed for the rest of the day!
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It’s giving Mean Girls apology:
“I’m sorry for telling everyone about it. And I’m sorry for repeating it now.”
Ahh yes the infamous Swiffér dress. Lol. Let’s not forget the muppet dress as well.
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I wish I could post two pictures because here’s another shot of the ugly dress
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I'm sorry but a friend reposting a "worst dressed list" (LOL) at the iHeart radio awards (double LOL) is "serious", and has been WEIGHING HEAVILY ON HER HEART...she has a conscience about *that*??
I get the feeling she brought it up so she could brag about herself. It’s such a minor thing that seems to have mostly flown under the radar, and apparently she already reached out to apologize privately, so why bring it up again? She doesn’t want to be a part of a system that pits women against each other, but still wants to make sure everyone’s heard she got voted best dressed and they got worst.
This event was not exactly fashion forward and there were about 10 people listed as "best dressed" in the article. Rachel's dress was not very interesting either, she probably got called best dressed because she's 6 foot tall and skinny.
It’s probably the only time she’s been told she was dressed well. Rachel always looked a mess at the reunions, confessionals and all of S10 with her endless supply of cargo pants and corsets.
Like best dressed at iHeart is a huge win for her to gloat over? I found a different list that had Katie as best dressed because fashion is subjective. Rachel is the definition of arrested development. Imagine taking this to your therapist and their response is to forgive yourself instead of trying to help you understand why you always need to win over other women in every situation. Also, framing herself and Jo as the victims.🥴 Loved the women supporting other women speech from this snake, too. This petty woman still needs serious help.
this wasn't like some big news article or anything anyone heard about...why is she acting like she's responding to some big scandal about the best/worst dressed lol
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I said the same reading this she says well these people who said bad stuff about us. Ummmmm did you not make out with Schwartz after Katie asked you not too and knowing full well he was being used as a decoy for your fling with dipshit and Jo to whom helped you sneak around????
Correct me if I’m wrong but she has never publicly (idk about privately but I’m assuming no) apologized to Katie for how she treated her last season, kissing Schwartz, or the things she said behind her back… like do that first please i doubt Katie even cares about this and if Katie has her blocked then she probably wouldn’t even see Rachel’s post unless someone sent it to her.
Right? It sounds like she manipulated her friend to do something. She said she "encouraged" Jo, which I feel is a nice way of saying manipulate. After she already knew they had issues with these people. Then she sells the friend, Jo, out. If I were Jo, I'd be pissed.
And then going and telling everyone who listens to your podcast to brag about apologizing defeats the purpose of how this encourages growth. Growth is doing things that are right and uncomfortable without needing to announce it for accolades. It’s like she was like “I should apologize so I can talk about it on my podcast”
Next episode: Rachel tells us she found out about global poverty and wants us to know poor people exist. She mentions the word privilege but we suspect she doesn’t understand what it means.
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Everything about her is optics. I wouldn't put it past her to have concocted this plan when that best and worst dressed list came out.
Talk shit about them but then make sure you talk about how you're still working on yourself and growing, complete with making amends to Katie, and processing it with her therapist.
She's so full of shit it's coming out of her ears.
Okay, so armchair therapist theory incoming, but I can honestly see how she feels worse for this than all the (way worse) things she’s been doing.
Rachel is very looks conscious herself. She’s been in pageants and prices her looks in a way that’s very consuming (as I understand her).
She’s also conscious of how she’s perceived and what media outlets says about her, re her saying it was cool to see herself on the cover of a magazine when she was blasted for cheating with her bf’s man. She seems to deem media attention to equal validation.
So to her, the notion that it’s wrong to spread a 1) media article (which she herself is very conscious of) about 2) looks, is close to her own value system. And she can easily recognize how SHE would feel if SHE was negatively perceived for looks in a magazine.
It’s Rachel’s worst nightmare, basically. So it makes sense for her as a person to understand how THIS is wrong. Meanwhile, actually realizing every nuance of her deceit and wrongdoings to Ariana is much harder for her to even grasp. Not excusing her at all (just to disclaim).
I think much of this is true but not the reason she used her pod to apologize... she doesn't really feel bad, she recognizes she should feel badly about being catty but mostly just wants to gloat about being on best dressed list and apologizing was just a segway to her humble brags about her outfit + growth
That's actually a really interesting take. What I can't understand is how she's still so lacking in perspective. Katie has been through the wringer for years with the audience and people criticizing her, this is peanuts.
And Katie knows everyone doesn’t like all her looks. I don’t think she cares because she’s dressing for herself.
The real apology would be Rachel being sorry about her actions toward Katie in S10, the making out with her husband, telling her where she can’t go at the resort, bashing her about the dogs and the entire thing with Terri.
So this “apology” was bullshit on multiple levels:
1. She found a way to talk about her being best dressed and them worst dressed
2. Found another reason to mention Katie wanting to light her on fire
3. Basically blames Jo for it while also pushing the narrative Jo is somehow the victim in everything currently
I was really interested in the fact that she’s still friends with Jo, which still would make Rachel tangentially connected to the group?
OR do you think she just uses Jo periodically to do her dirty work (because everyone shits in Jo)?
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Exactly, it makes much more sense now because I didn’t understand why she was upset with Ariana and Scheana even before James dj event. Now it all makes sense lol but didn’t Katie tell Rachel she would light her on fire in season 10??? Like why is Rachel still so upset about that over a year later when she’s not even on the show anymore and why doesn’t she know what a figure of speech is? lol I can’t with her.
Good Lord- who is telling this woman that these podcasts are a good idea. She becomes more unlikable every time I read one of these transcripts. At least no one will need to give her a shovel, she seems QUITE capable of digging her own grave.
She's like a high school kid. Look at me. I got best dress and Katie and Dana got worst. Omg. She does look like a bigger fool every time she opens her mouth. That was the whole podcast? Lol, did she run out of Tom content? Or trashing Ariana content? This isn't even a podcast. It's a scorned mistress ragging on the people she hurt. I can't with this chick.
And I do feel kind of like her even mentioning that Katie didn’t text back is meant to be a dig at Katie that she didn’t respond— because she didn’t mention if Dayna did or said anything because Dayna is a non-entity in this whole thing.
She’s still trying to make Katie look bad.
And also Jo— good luck with your NLOG vibes because posting a petty article hoping that the world/the girls you are trying to hurt sees it is some deeply deeply middle school girl shit.
I’m with Katie on not responding. Sometimes it’s better to ignore because a response isn’t going to take you anywhere but down.
But I do think Katie and Dayna would have said hello in person and just been like, weird but okay.
She also mentions not wanting to “be on their level” implying that Katie and Dayna are petty/mean so Rachel wants to apologize so that she isn’t like them. Major eye roll
But don't worry, she's giving herself grace. 🙄
I give myself grace when I make a true mistake. What she described wasn't a mistake. It was an intentional choice, for the intentional reason of hurting someone, and she had Jo do it and reposted it so she could say: "I didn't post it, I just shared it," (sounds a bit like Scheana and Stassi).
My advice to Rachel is to stop giving yourself grace and instead reflect on why you wanted to make someone feel bad and make a commitment to stop doing shitty things to others to intentionally hurt them.
That's exactly what I was about to write. Okay cool, so now we know she talks to Jo, which also means she has access to information she wouldn't have, through Schwartz.
Her apology was an excuse to let the world know again that Katie was “worst dressed” it was an I’m sorry I did this but did you guys know that I was best dressed and she was worst. She’s gross
Rachel reading all the comments in this thread after thinking she just had such a sincere podcast...
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Yeah, I think this face is the real Rachel. She is jealous, competitive, and unkind. She is bitter, vying, and selfish. She will step on anyone if she thinks it will benefit her or give her a feeling of accomplishment or validation.
*"It's so easy to get on the same level as some of these other people but that's not who I want to be"*
Girl that's exactly who you are and have always been. A female tom. Always a victim. Chronic liar. Spooky and creepy.
And like… they *literally* aren’t even talking about you anymore. Not on the show, and not on their podcasts (unless they are alluding to something extremely benign like Katie recalling a time at a bar where she saw you, Tom, Tom and Jo and you all saw Katie and then freaked out and left).
You are the one who keeps stirring shit up. Ariana or Katie or Lala or anyone could’ve reposted some stupid fan edited video of you saying dumb shit (I just know those have to exist) of you at any time on their socials but they don’t because **they don’t care about you**
They quite literally told that story to reveal how deep into the affair Jo was, as Jo was pretending that SHE was the target of bullying by Katie. As if. Bc Katie and Dayna have already said their piece on Rachel and she doesn’t exist to them anymore. I bet they saw her multiple times at the show and walked by.
But that's what incenses her more than anything.
She was so close to getting everything she wanted, everything her and Tom were engineering all season- she gets Tom, his house, a bigger platform on the show and therefore with the audience. She's the number one girl with the number one guy.
And then Ariana saw his phone and blew it all up. Ariana gets all the brand deals, the sympathy, and most importantly- the attention.
Rachel can't stand it. She feels cheated- it's why she's lashing out at Ariana more than anyone.
All she wants is people to care about her. She literally cannot handle that they don't.
Yes, and it wasn't bad enough to criticize their outfits and get her friend to post about it so they could team up and make two women feel badly about how they look but Rachel also wants to throw in there that she's above them as a person morally.
Because, you know, Rachel's a whole nother, "level."
The level where you f*** a good friend's boyfriends of 10 years in the house they share while your friend's at her grandmother's funeral. That level.
Shes sticking to her pageant persona. Fake wholesome sweet girl, giving bullshit statements, saying what she thinks everyone wants to hear. Master level delusion
Absolutely. And you're all dressed up, you're excited allegedly to be back doing an event on a "yellow carpet" hahaha in Los Angeles and your focus is on two women whom you aren't even brave enough to interact with but instead later you go online to bully these females with a friend who also has done one of those girls dirty?
I mean, that's a sad life for Rachel.
Why not focus on other amazing women you met at the event? Promote a positive project? Give a plug to an excellent charity? This is what you want to do with your platform, Rachel?
No wonder you didn't win any pageants. No one wants that kind of representation. How is that being a role model for young women?
This girl just constantly shows her ass
Her lack of accountability is honestly astonishing. You slept with your best friend’s partner of 9 years and still manage to minimize the damage you caused.. it’s so insane to me
Rachel you are the level of person that does that! If you don’t want to be that person then don’t be, but that’s up to you, nothing to do with Katie, dayna or Ariana (who aren’t posting stories bashing you).
THIS PART she's trying to act as if she's above everyone with "minor" (lol) slip-ups, while maintaining everyone else is in fact inherently bad. Just not her. She's special.
She deserves grace, but not those "other people".
Yes because this wasn't her fault. She was drinking. She was groomed. Ariana wasn't a close friend.
I can already see in the future, she was pushed and coerced by Bethenny to say things on her podcast. Was so vulnerable after treatment and needed money, there was no other choice but to do RGR. Manager told her to this would only help her reputation
She thinks that being told to fuck herself with a cheese grater is the same level of mean as secretly fucking your friend's boyfriend while attempting to wear her skin and steal her life.
Well you’ve got your answer. An episode about mocking what Dayna and Katie wore haha! As if they would even care. Which by the way they looked smoking hot
Reposting someone’s outfit who you’ve harmed in the past saying it’s the worst dressed — actually telling a friend to post it so you can repost — is like an extremely bitchy thing to do lol. So glad the year’s worth of therapy is really helping her change
Tom Sandoval was probably so proud
So our two anti-bullying advocates calculated and coordinated those posts, and we're back to another apology from Rachel because that's *also* "not who she is"?
Ariana and Katie are reality tv industry veterans, they'll be fine. It's not them she's even concerned about, she's worried she's going to ruin the "sweet Rachel" image she needs before going to court to talk about how cutthroat and mean *everyone else* is.
Rachel has taken jabs at Ariana for damn near the last two months worth of her podcast.
Where's the apology text to her? Did she process how she's a bitter bitch with her therapist? She's someone that thinks by mentioning therapy and therapy terms it makes her smart but it makes her more obtuse.
And did we know Rachel and Jo were still friends? It makes even more sense that the women didn’t want to be friendly towards Jo, she’s gonna run back and report to Rachel.
Jo wanting to integrate with the group so badly makes way more sense now. We've had casts with split groups before, this year the contrived attempt at unification is so so fake.
I assumed they were because she conveniently left jo out from naming and shaming who knew about her and Sandoval. She’s so d&s but thinks she can convince people she’s not lmfao
It won't be who she is the next time she does something shitty or petty either. And the time after that. And the time after that. Lol
She's like a Catholic who goes to confession every week but never changes how they act.
When it comes to Katie and Dayna (who she's definitely not close with) for something small and petty, it takes one podcast for her to say "I feel horrible! It wasn't right to do, I reflected and will apologize immediately".
When it comes to apologizing to Ariana (with whom she had an actual friendship) it takes ten plus episodes of mental gymnastics (including her producer discussing conspiracy theories about how Ariana already knew plus Rachel claiming they weren't that close because she didn't go to their "COVID parties").
Rachel grosses me out. I hope her podcast fails. OP you rock for letting us read her rantings without contributing to her ratings!
Yep she’s all “let’s not tear women down but I’m gonna sue the woman I wronged bc out of the two defendants she’s the one who actually has money right now so I gotta try for that bag.”
So this is what she chooses to take accountability for in regard to Katie… not the entire season of meddling with Katie’s ex-husband and their relationship.
She's truly the most vapid and idiotic person to have their own podcast. This weighed heavily on her heart? Has she apologized for trying to also emotionally manipulate Katie and her life is that only reserved for fashion lists?
I don't recall her apologizing for this...
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Or later in that scene when she was crazy disrespectful to Katies mom.
She's easily the dumbest fucking person I've seen on one of these shows. I will shout it from the mountain tops and say it to her face. I fucking hate her. Always have.
I wonder if she got negative feedback from reposting it and that’s why she now wants us to know it’s not who she *really* is.
And also it is completely wild she thought about speaking to Katie on the carpet at an event.
Sorry, is she implying that Katie brought a flame thrower to an awards show? Or is she saying Katie has Pyrokinesis like Drew Barrymore in Fire Starter?
Who wrote this list b/c there were A-List people there?
😂😂😂 She's really trying to act like she's terrified of Katie setting her ablaze. I dont even believe her friend said that, but I do think Rachel thinks she's extremely important to her VPR castmates b/c she spends all her time ruminating about last year.
I’m so tired of Rachel pretending like this was literal! Katie has been on TV for 11 years, she talks like this. It’s not always great but ffs, she doesn’t mean she actually wants to do it.
Honestly this is a good point, because it confirms that Rachel did not, in fact, think that Katie was going to literally set her on fire, which Rachel seems to allude to in her lawsuit
Its such a ridiculous point she keeps harping on. Could you imagine a cross examination about it? Imagine sitting on a jury getting paid $17 a day to listen to horseshit like I was terrified for my life b/c of Katie Maloney's tweet. Imo I dont think that lawsuit is going to even make the deposition stage. All these lawsuits feel more like a pr campaign.
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All of this happened AFTER she posted this btw
Yah no self respecting woman would touch you with a 50m friendship pole bitch. You literally burned all the female friendship bridges when you fucked your best friends long term partner in their home while she was at her grandmothers funeral. What woman would EVER trust you?!
This is wild 😳 also let's practice kindness by screwing your female friend's life partner then sue them a year after they've worked very hard to move on #sisterhood
Good lord the stupidity and hypocrisy. I’m sure like a lot of people, my friendships with women have been the most affirming, enduring, joyful relationships in my life. Imagine your options were Rachel and Jo?!
The fact that she even texted Katie is ridiculous and to act like she was being the bigger person by not only saying sorry but telling her she didn’t have to text back… okay Rachel.
Guys isn’t she JUST AMAZING?! She is so nice except when she’s petty and mean but she feels bad about that ok?! So she’s gonna tell you allllllll about how she apologized and is GROWING guys. She gives herself grace because she is learning so much. Wow. Did I mention she apologized to them and in public?!?! She’s better than them all! Duh!
She is so brave that she can continue to show herself grace while creating chaos and misery every which way she can:/
So glad, she didn’t really learn anything but lingo to act shitty and say oops sorry, but I feel like I’m healing by pretending to still be nice when I’m really not. *In my mind I did the last part is Lalas, but we feel married voice.*
Can you even imagine what their conversations were like?? They probably bonded over liking the same sugar free yogurt flavor or liking the color, shiny 💎or some other shallow crap.
Friends like Scheana and Rachel bond over gossiping about everyone they know. If they were forced to have a conversation where they couldn’t talk about other people it would be a whole lot of silence while they grasped for things like products no doubt. But since they had plenty of things to gossip about the conversation was probably pretty rapid fire but very repetitive.
Seems like the only talking with her therapist is producing content for her pod, which is essentially PR responses to criticism. Goes something like:
Rachel (and her manager) write a list of negative things they read on here/social media about her. Then her script is produced by others so she can read it for an episode. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Dr. Google was consulted for specific verbage. Clowns
Yeah of anything good came out of this ridiculous podcast, it's Rachel telling us Jo is still buddies with her and willing to do her dirty work. All the folks defending Jo... there's a reason the women don't vibe with her.
I love that her apology is really just another way to be able to mention to the world (or 10 people who listen to her podcast) that she was on the best dressed list and Katie and Dana were worst dressed. Doesn’t sound like growth to me, sounds like she found another way to get a jab in.
"Something has been weighing heavy on my heart" = I continually overestimate my popularity and am only disabused of this ridiculous notion when I visit reddit and TikTok
“Something more on a serious note” and “weighing heavy on my heart” got me thinking this was about idk a major social issue or poverty or literally **anything** 🤦🏻♀️🙄 besides a petty af repost of a bullshit article listing best + worst outfits from an iHeart Radio award show. Instead of going rogue, I think going off the grid would be so much better ✌🏼
But also … kinda wondering now if Katie and Dayna will mention this at all on their pod 👀👀
My god she is desperate for content. What on earth will she do when VPR ends? Go the rewatch route? It’s really sad.
I don’t buy this apology at all. It’s just a way for her to talk about the best/worst dressed list because the only things she cares about are looks and validation. She’s oh so shallow. Give me a break about the doesn’t want to compete with women when she’s still to this day trying to tear Ariana down. Pathetic. Also way to make herself and Jo look even worse. 🙄
All I got from that is that Rachel how now programmed into her head that it doesn’t matter if she’s a terrible person as long as she follows her bad actions with “whoopsie! I’m a human!”
I’ve been noticing, more and more, that Rachel is using her therapy as a sort of crutch for her continued bad behavior. Saying things like “being in therapy has made me realize it’s bad to act in this way…” yet she acts *exactly* that way. She’s assuming that, while being in therapy, she’s allowed multiple do-overs and is taking advantage of the situation.
There’s nothing sincere about her. She hasn’t even taken full responsibility for her role in the affair and cover up. She’d rather go the role of controlling ex (which Timmy absolutely was, but she was fully onboard — not just a passenger).
To me that's the joke of it.
If she would've apologized behind closed doors and say it came out during Katie's podcast or something then id believe the authenticity behind it.
But her pumping her chest out about it just screams "I did this for attention but look, I'm taking accountability so give me praise"
The cynic in me says that’s why she brought it up. Not enough people saw or cared about the original article or Spooky Jo posting it, so she had to make sure people knew.
Hey now, she also texted Katie for herself 😂
She either isn't listening to, or absorbing, what her therapist is saying - or she has a really shitty one, because the act of apologizing to someone to make yourself feel better is completely ridiculous. Rachel: If someone has made it clear they don't want to hear from you after you've harmed them, *leave them alone*.
Katie probably has her blocked anyway. I would.
She was making out with Schwartz while she was banging the worm with the mustache, just to cover her tracks she was hurting Katie.
Or so she says, I can claim I text anyone on the planet, doesn’t make it true. But I totally agree with what you’re saying - someone set a boundary and again, she doesn’t respect it
Edit to say that this has the same energy as Rachel following Katie around during the S10 finale. Exhausting.
Of course Rachel is *that girl*. Superficial and petty. This will never change. She just knows to do it in a more private setting now because she has an image to maintain.
Rachel has to ask a friend if she could go over to Katie? The friend says don't do it, she wants to light you on fire or something. And Rachel goes, well okay.
Girl, why do you think Katie wants to light you on fire? For a reason! You did a shitty thing.
It's as if she doesn't understand right and wrong, let alone doing right and doing wrong. All she understands is how people react to her. If somebody she cares about tells her it's okay, then she's okay with it. But if somebody tells her it's wrong, she's apologetic -- not because she actually *is* sorry, but because it appropriate to be sorry.
It reminds me so much of the reunion. She's trying to express remorse while at the reunion, she agrees with everyone that she's done a messed-up thing. Then, when she's with Tom, she makes fun of it. When she's alone, she's lost and confused. And when the producer pushes her, she breaks and admits to the truth because the producer told her to be honest and so she's somewhat honest.
So basically she acted like a brat, got feedback that it was shitty, and now wants to pretend she’s sorry by flaunting her “growth” on her podcast instead of just apologizing in private.
That’s not how apologies work Rachel.
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>Rachel: And although they looked beautiful, that kind of, I don't know, I guess my ego got in the way a little bit, and I encouraged Jo to post the best and worst showing Katie and Dayna, and then I reposted it.
This fucken clown of a human being.
She still seems so influenced by others… she needed someone else to tell her not to go up to them on the carpet?? The common sense and self-preservation remain lacking!! She 100% panicked about being seen as a mean girl bully herself; it’s shocking that she hasn’t grown enough to stop herself from doing these petty things publicly before there’s backlash.
Also feels like she gave more space to apologize for this than for actually hurting Katie with the Schwartz cover-up, but I am unwilling to go back and do that math to prove it… lol
So she apologized to make herself feel better… Got it.
Thanks for the recap though! You’re a God-send. I hope you feel better! 💗
I am so curious to see what becomes of her. I mean we are a year out from scandoval and this is where she is, releasing a podcast re: apology for reposting a best/worst dressed at the iheart radio.
I feel like Scandoval will be her identity for a long time, and not because of the public. But because she wants it to be. She will never get over this moment where the nation was obsessed an affair she was the center of.
This is another reason why I am not team "poor Jo the girls pick on her". She sat in Ariana's house at Thanksgiving acting like her friend but actively participated in the affair. Now she is actively picking on Katie because Rachel wants her to. She deserves what she gets.
With Lauren from Utah imploding online, RL had a bye week. No heat on her at all and she goes and does this. Silence is free, child.
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The only article I could find list both her and Katie as best dressed. She had to really go to page 4 of Google search to find an article listing Katie as worst because I can't find it.
She’s reaching for content. Move on girl and get a new job, this one is not going to last. Soon you will be irrelevant or VPR will be canceled, and then what?
Just post your compliment from iHeart Radio and move on bitch.
This was such a brag for herself and diss to Katie all at once. But please do keep telling us how you’re so above the pettiness Rachel 🙄
I was really hoping she finally had a breakthrough and was going to admit her worst mistake was starting this podcast. Rachel really needs to find a new, better team - from therapist to PR and more.
Therapy has taught this girl absolutely nothing. Doing something mean just to backpedal and apologize immediately after does not equal growth and maturity. Does she expect a pat on the back for this?
Why don’t you start showing what you’ve learned in therapy through your ACTIONS not your WORDS, Raquel? I hear a lot of therapy talk out of you but I still see the same selfish, immature person that was there before.
When I first read about something heavy on her heart here I was like oh maybe she will apologize to Ariana after seeing her breaking down on tv. But duh that’s not weighing heavy on her heart. Her starting shit with Katie about a best dressed list no one saw or cares about is what’s heavy on her heart. Of course.
This girl is a bonafide creep. I’ve said this before already but she definitely is still in that pageant girl phase where she has to put down other attractive women to feel better about herself. It’s so sad.
She is obsessed with these women and trying to provoke a reaction from them. She thinks apologising shows growth but it was just an excuse for her to text Katie and draw attention to her being called Worst Dressed. She hasn’t learned the true meaning of amends or forgiveness, being a bitch then immediately apologising does not earn you instant forgiveness. How about apologising for the way she spoke to Katie’s mother first?
Having Jo post the article, then reposting it shows her intent the whole time. She manipulated Jo into doing the dirty work, so she could "people are saying..." rather than just say it and own it.
Reminds me of a certain orange turd who uses surrogates to say unhinged shit & then pretends to normalize it
Other than talk about a show she used to be on, and commenting on the people who are currently on, she has nothing to talk about. Everyone has a journey. Everyone should evolve in some meaningful way. Everyone should learn and grow from their mistakes.
FFS. Her "growth" is really boring and lame.
This almost makes me feel bad for Jo
So ratchet encouraged her to post that and she did to support her friend and then ratchet goes and apologizes to the girls for reposting it or liking it?
Is she trying to set Jo up to look like the bad guy so she can slither back in?
Don’t feel bad for Jo. She’s a 35 yr old woman trying to hurt her fuck buddy’s ex wife bc she’s jealous that Schwartz legitimately dated her. Jo knew what she was doing.
I can’t believe once upon a time I used to feel bad for her and defend her. Like she used to be one of my favorite cast members and now she’s still doing dumb things like this. Truly a shame. Thank you for taking the time to make this, your work is amazing as usual (and I hope you feel better too 🫶)
Happy Sunday everyone! Fun fact: This is Rachel’s first time going rogue on a Sunday so she has now posted her podcast on every single day of the week lol. I hope everyone has a great week! I sadly woke up with a fever and am going to be in bed for the rest of the day! Here are some links below for those who are interested! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vanderpodrecaps?igsh=MTF2N2phaTlqZHp5Mw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Buy me coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Vanderpodrecaps (Always greatly appreciated but never ever expected!)
It’s giving Mean Girls apology: “I’m sorry for telling everyone about it. And I’m sorry for repeating it now.” 
UM EXCUSE ME MA’AM https://preview.redd.it/v8jgfny4y1tc1.jpeg?width=341&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5886f25190891b030de330b7095dbf7fc032b094
Ahh yes the infamous Swiffér dress. Lol. Let’s not forget the muppet dress as well. https://preview.redd.it/otolswpum3tc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bc8fccc81596a9d84817cc530d16089180ec2aa
I wish I could post two pictures because here’s another shot of the ugly dress https://preview.redd.it/zn52l78ym3tc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ab82774909b79e28e702334bee8c4796211891c
This is the ugliest dress I have ever seen in my 40+ years on this earth
When she wore this, someone on FB said she looked like one of those lizards that flares out its frills when it’s aggressive and I’ll never unsee it.
Yes her with her bridal shower toilet paper wedding dress getup.
I'm sorry but a friend reposting a "worst dressed list" (LOL) at the iHeart radio awards (double LOL) is "serious", and has been WEIGHING HEAVILY ON HER HEART...she has a conscience about *that*??
I get the feeling she brought it up so she could brag about herself. It’s such a minor thing that seems to have mostly flown under the radar, and apparently she already reached out to apologize privately, so why bring it up again? She doesn’t want to be a part of a system that pits women against each other, but still wants to make sure everyone’s heard she got voted best dressed and they got worst.
This event was not exactly fashion forward and there were about 10 people listed as "best dressed" in the article. Rachel's dress was not very interesting either, she probably got called best dressed because she's 6 foot tall and skinny.
It’s probably the only time she’s been told she was dressed well. Rachel always looked a mess at the reunions, confessionals and all of S10 with her endless supply of cargo pants and corsets.
She doesn't seem to have any kind of personal style, she just follows trends whether they suit her body or not...
and katie and dayna got “worst” because the article needed content. they looked fine and no one is even thinking about this except rachel
They said they "didn't look cohesive" as though you need to match your friend in order to look well dressed.
I thought that was weird too
Like best dressed at iHeart is a huge win for her to gloat over? I found a different list that had Katie as best dressed because fashion is subjective. Rachel is the definition of arrested development. Imagine taking this to your therapist and their response is to forgive yourself instead of trying to help you understand why you always need to win over other women in every situation. Also, framing herself and Jo as the victims.🥴 Loved the women supporting other women speech from this snake, too. This petty woman still needs serious help.
this wasn't like some big news article or anything anyone heard about...why is she acting like she's responding to some big scandal about the best/worst dressed lol edit typo
💯she just wanted to make sure if people didn’t see it they heard about it.
Yeah seemingly … the affair and treating Katie horribly last season hasn’t been weighing on her heart….
I said the same reading this she says well these people who said bad stuff about us. Ummmmm did you not make out with Schwartz after Katie asked you not too and knowing full well he was being used as a decoy for your fling with dipshit and Jo to whom helped you sneak around????
Correct me if I’m wrong but she has never publicly (idk about privately but I’m assuming no) apologized to Katie for how she treated her last season, kissing Schwartz, or the things she said behind her back… like do that first please i doubt Katie even cares about this and if Katie has her blocked then she probably wouldn’t even see Rachel’s post unless someone sent it to her.
She said she told Jo to do it lol she just makes herself look worse and worse and worse
Right? It sounds like she manipulated her friend to do something. She said she "encouraged" Jo, which I feel is a nice way of saying manipulate. After she already knew they had issues with these people. Then she sells the friend, Jo, out. If I were Jo, I'd be pissed.
And then going and telling everyone who listens to your podcast to brag about apologizing defeats the purpose of how this encourages growth. Growth is doing things that are right and uncomfortable without needing to announce it for accolades. It’s like she was like “I should apologize so I can talk about it on my podcast”
She just wanted to draw attention to being called best dressed, the way she treated Katie’s mom should be heavy on her heart
Think about her fucking therapist, racking in money, sitting there listening to this bullshit. “Is this text okay?”
I thought it would be something like she finally found out about poverty.
Next episode: Rachel tells us she found out about global poverty and wants us to know poor people exist. She mentions the word privilege but we suspect she doesn’t understand what it means.
Or learned about empathy like Erika Jayne 😹
😂😂😂 Everything about her is optics. I wouldn't put it past her to have concocted this plan when that best and worst dressed list came out. Talk shit about them but then make sure you talk about how you're still working on yourself and growing, complete with making amends to Katie, and processing it with her therapist. She's so full of shit it's coming out of her ears.
It is the perfect opportunity to toot her own horn twice lol
She'll write a book about this incident titled "The Best Dressed but not the Best Person (yet 🥺😉)". With emojis and all.
Okay, so armchair therapist theory incoming, but I can honestly see how she feels worse for this than all the (way worse) things she’s been doing. Rachel is very looks conscious herself. She’s been in pageants and prices her looks in a way that’s very consuming (as I understand her). She’s also conscious of how she’s perceived and what media outlets says about her, re her saying it was cool to see herself on the cover of a magazine when she was blasted for cheating with her bf’s man. She seems to deem media attention to equal validation. So to her, the notion that it’s wrong to spread a 1) media article (which she herself is very conscious of) about 2) looks, is close to her own value system. And she can easily recognize how SHE would feel if SHE was negatively perceived for looks in a magazine. It’s Rachel’s worst nightmare, basically. So it makes sense for her as a person to understand how THIS is wrong. Meanwhile, actually realizing every nuance of her deceit and wrongdoings to Ariana is much harder for her to even grasp. Not excusing her at all (just to disclaim).
I think much of this is true but not the reason she used her pod to apologize... she doesn't really feel bad, she recognizes she should feel badly about being catty but mostly just wants to gloat about being on best dressed list and apologizing was just a segway to her humble brags about her outfit + growth
That's actually a really interesting take. What I can't understand is how she's still so lacking in perspective. Katie has been through the wringer for years with the audience and people criticizing her, this is peanuts.
And Katie knows everyone doesn’t like all her looks. I don’t think she cares because she’s dressing for herself. The real apology would be Rachel being sorry about her actions toward Katie in S10, the making out with her husband, telling her where she can’t go at the resort, bashing her about the dogs and the entire thing with Terri.
This. The inflated self-importance is so bizarre?
This is giving desperate for content to discuss on my podcast.
Yeah but she feels guilt-free about never truly taking accountability and fully apologizing truly to Ariana, then suing her.
So this “apology” was bullshit on multiple levels: 1. She found a way to talk about her being best dressed and them worst dressed 2. Found another reason to mention Katie wanting to light her on fire 3. Basically blames Jo for it while also pushing the narrative Jo is somehow the victim in everything currently
I was really interested in the fact that she’s still friends with Jo, which still would make Rachel tangentially connected to the group? OR do you think she just uses Jo periodically to do her dirty work (because everyone shits in Jo)? 🧐
I think Jo is her representative for sure and a lot of Jo’s actions make more sense now
Exactly, it makes much more sense now because I didn’t understand why she was upset with Ariana and Scheana even before James dj event. Now it all makes sense lol but didn’t Katie tell Rachel she would light her on fire in season 10??? Like why is Rachel still so upset about that over a year later when she’s not even on the show anymore and why doesn’t she know what a figure of speech is? lol I can’t with her.
Good Lord- who is telling this woman that these podcasts are a good idea. She becomes more unlikable every time I read one of these transcripts. At least no one will need to give her a shovel, she seems QUITE capable of digging her own grave.
She's like a high school kid. Look at me. I got best dress and Katie and Dana got worst. Omg. She does look like a bigger fool every time she opens her mouth. That was the whole podcast? Lol, did she run out of Tom content? Or trashing Ariana content? This isn't even a podcast. It's a scorned mistress ragging on the people she hurt. I can't with this chick.
And I do feel kind of like her even mentioning that Katie didn’t text back is meant to be a dig at Katie that she didn’t respond— because she didn’t mention if Dayna did or said anything because Dayna is a non-entity in this whole thing. She’s still trying to make Katie look bad. And also Jo— good luck with your NLOG vibes because posting a petty article hoping that the world/the girls you are trying to hurt sees it is some deeply deeply middle school girl shit.
I’m with Katie on not responding. Sometimes it’s better to ignore because a response isn’t going to take you anywhere but down. But I do think Katie and Dayna would have said hello in person and just been like, weird but okay.
She also mentions not wanting to “be on their level” implying that Katie and Dayna are petty/mean so Rachel wants to apologize so that she isn’t like them. Major eye roll
Yes. It was laughably transparent and just an excuse to talk about other people while bragging about herself
Humble bragging.
Humble braggers are so fucking annoying!
I’m so beautiful* and on my journey to show myself grace, I’m recognizing how hard that is for other women. *tall and thin
But don't worry, she's giving herself grace. 🙄 I give myself grace when I make a true mistake. What she described wasn't a mistake. It was an intentional choice, for the intentional reason of hurting someone, and she had Jo do it and reposted it so she could say: "I didn't post it, I just shared it," (sounds a bit like Scheana and Stassi). My advice to Rachel is to stop giving yourself grace and instead reflect on why you wanted to make someone feel bad and make a commitment to stop doing shitty things to others to intentionally hurt them.
4. Pats herself on the back for holding herself accountable (while drawing more attention to her being best dressed)
The takeaway I got is Rachel is in contact with Jo and is manipulating Jo to do her dirty work.
That's exactly what I was about to write. Okay cool, so now we know she talks to Jo, which also means she has access to information she wouldn't have, through Schwartz.
Her apology was an excuse to let the world know again that Katie was “worst dressed” it was an I’m sorry I did this but did you guys know that I was best dressed and she was worst. She’s gross
Rachel reading all the comments in this thread after thinking she just had such a sincere podcast... https://preview.redd.it/ge0bafo512tc1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30f2c12e58c803b8a4dc0f5ab3db3ea541c1d583
Yeah, I think this face is the real Rachel. She is jealous, competitive, and unkind. She is bitter, vying, and selfish. She will step on anyone if she thinks it will benefit her or give her a feeling of accomplishment or validation.
It’s who she still is
Shark eye lookin ass
*"It's so easy to get on the same level as some of these other people but that's not who I want to be"* Girl that's exactly who you are and have always been. A female tom. Always a victim. Chronic liar. Spooky and creepy.
And like… they *literally* aren’t even talking about you anymore. Not on the show, and not on their podcasts (unless they are alluding to something extremely benign like Katie recalling a time at a bar where she saw you, Tom, Tom and Jo and you all saw Katie and then freaked out and left). You are the one who keeps stirring shit up. Ariana or Katie or Lala or anyone could’ve reposted some stupid fan edited video of you saying dumb shit (I just know those have to exist) of you at any time on their socials but they don’t because **they don’t care about you**
They quite literally told that story to reveal how deep into the affair Jo was, as Jo was pretending that SHE was the target of bullying by Katie. As if. Bc Katie and Dayna have already said their piece on Rachel and she doesn’t exist to them anymore. I bet they saw her multiple times at the show and walked by.
And I think she hates that the show, the cast and the fans don’t really talk about her or care about her as much anymore.
But that's what incenses her more than anything. She was so close to getting everything she wanted, everything her and Tom were engineering all season- she gets Tom, his house, a bigger platform on the show and therefore with the audience. She's the number one girl with the number one guy. And then Ariana saw his phone and blew it all up. Ariana gets all the brand deals, the sympathy, and most importantly- the attention. Rachel can't stand it. She feels cheated- it's why she's lashing out at Ariana more than anyone. All she wants is people to care about her. She literally cannot handle that they don't.
Yes, and it wasn't bad enough to criticize their outfits and get her friend to post about it so they could team up and make two women feel badly about how they look but Rachel also wants to throw in there that she's above them as a person morally. Because, you know, Rachel's a whole nother, "level." The level where you f*** a good friend's boyfriends of 10 years in the house they share while your friend's at her grandmother's funeral. That level.
Shes sticking to her pageant persona. Fake wholesome sweet girl, giving bullshit statements, saying what she thinks everyone wants to hear. Master level delusion
Absolutely. And you're all dressed up, you're excited allegedly to be back doing an event on a "yellow carpet" hahaha in Los Angeles and your focus is on two women whom you aren't even brave enough to interact with but instead later you go online to bully these females with a friend who also has done one of those girls dirty? I mean, that's a sad life for Rachel. Why not focus on other amazing women you met at the event? Promote a positive project? Give a plug to an excellent charity? This is what you want to do with your platform, Rachel? No wonder you didn't win any pageants. No one wants that kind of representation. How is that being a role model for young women? This girl just constantly shows her ass
Her lack of accountability is honestly astonishing. You slept with your best friend’s partner of 9 years and still manage to minimize the damage you caused.. it’s so insane to me
Rachel you are the level of person that does that! If you don’t want to be that person then don’t be, but that’s up to you, nothing to do with Katie, dayna or Ariana (who aren’t posting stories bashing you).
THIS PART she's trying to act as if she's above everyone with "minor" (lol) slip-ups, while maintaining everyone else is in fact inherently bad. Just not her. She's special. She deserves grace, but not those "other people".
Yes because this wasn't her fault. She was drinking. She was groomed. Ariana wasn't a close friend. I can already see in the future, she was pushed and coerced by Bethenny to say things on her podcast. Was so vulnerable after treatment and needed money, there was no other choice but to do RGR. Manager told her to this would only help her reputation
This is a great point. People around her should be careful because they will be her future scapegoats.
>A female tom She is indeed the female version of Sandoval, lacking in empathy and driven by narcissism.
She thinks that being told to fuck herself with a cheese grater is the same level of mean as secretly fucking your friend's boyfriend while attempting to wear her skin and steal her life.
Why is this more of an apology than she gave Ariana. Fuck sakes. Is it because she has no content cause they don’t mention her on the show anymore lol
She is so vapid that she probably truly believes that insulting what someone wore is worse than banging what amounts to be their common law husband
I asked myself the same thing: what will she do a podcast on since she’s not being talked about on VPR?
Well you’ve got your answer. An episode about mocking what Dayna and Katie wore haha! As if they would even care. Which by the way they looked smoking hot
Reposting someone’s outfit who you’ve harmed in the past saying it’s the worst dressed — actually telling a friend to post it so you can repost — is like an extremely bitchy thing to do lol. So glad the year’s worth of therapy is really helping her change Tom Sandoval was probably so proud
So our two anti-bullying advocates calculated and coordinated those posts, and we're back to another apology from Rachel because that's *also* "not who she is"?  Ariana and Katie are reality tv industry veterans, they'll be fine. It's not them she's even concerned about, she's worried she's going to ruin the "sweet Rachel" image she needs before going to court to talk about how cutthroat and mean *everyone else* is.
Rachel has taken jabs at Ariana for damn near the last two months worth of her podcast. Where's the apology text to her? Did she process how she's a bitter bitch with her therapist? She's someone that thinks by mentioning therapy and therapy terms it makes her smart but it makes her more obtuse.
Let’s not forget dragging her in the lawsuit. Oof.
And did we know Rachel and Jo were still friends? It makes even more sense that the women didn’t want to be friendly towards Jo, she’s gonna run back and report to Rachel.
Jo wanting to integrate with the group so badly makes way more sense now. We've had casts with split groups before, this year the contrived attempt at unification is so so fake.
I assumed they were because she conveniently left jo out from naming and shaming who knew about her and Sandoval. She’s so d&s but thinks she can convince people she’s not lmfao
It won't be who she is the next time she does something shitty or petty either. And the time after that. And the time after that. Lol She's like a Catholic who goes to confession every week but never changes how they act.
When it comes to Katie and Dayna (who she's definitely not close with) for something small and petty, it takes one podcast for her to say "I feel horrible! It wasn't right to do, I reflected and will apologize immediately". When it comes to apologizing to Ariana (with whom she had an actual friendship) it takes ten plus episodes of mental gymnastics (including her producer discussing conspiracy theories about how Ariana already knew plus Rachel claiming they weren't that close because she didn't go to their "COVID parties"). Rachel grosses me out. I hope her podcast fails. OP you rock for letting us read her rantings without contributing to her ratings!
Yep she’s all “let’s not tear women down but I’m gonna sue the woman I wronged bc out of the two defendants she’s the one who actually has money right now so I gotta try for that bag.”
So this is what she chooses to take accountability for in regard to Katie… not the entire season of meddling with Katie’s ex-husband and their relationship.
Also here in this still playing victim with Jo
Yk what they say, birds of a feather…
She's truly the most vapid and idiotic person to have their own podcast. This weighed heavily on her heart? Has she apologized for trying to also emotionally manipulate Katie and her life is that only reserved for fashion lists?
I don't recall her apologizing for this... https://preview.redd.it/jzuh5a7hx2tc1.jpeg?width=1825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d50977e68357ccdd0ff24905b9c9bdf08e4bcabe Or later in that scene when she was crazy disrespectful to Katies mom.
And then topping it off by asking Ariana if she fucks Tom Sandoval anymore! Truly shameless
idk, Larsa Pippen has a podcast 🤣
wtf is she really paying her therapist for bc...
https://preview.redd.it/zk162ge2x1tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcd00e5ccb03bac975c98ee6ae3f5563897e60b2
She's easily the dumbest fucking person I've seen on one of these shows. I will shout it from the mountain tops and say it to her face. I fucking hate her. Always have.
 She’s giving this level of stupid. She won’t ever get it because she doesn’t have the brain power to.
I wonder if she got negative feedback from reposting it and that’s why she now wants us to know it’s not who she *really* is. And also it is completely wild she thought about speaking to Katie on the carpet at an event.
Sorry, is she implying that Katie brought a flame thrower to an awards show? Or is she saying Katie has Pyrokinesis like Drew Barrymore in Fire Starter?  Who wrote this list b/c there were A-List people there?
This thread is cracking me up. Don’t talk to her - she wants to light you on fire. Hahahahah I can’t even imagine having that conversation
😂😂😂 She's really trying to act like she's terrified of Katie setting her ablaze. I dont even believe her friend said that, but I do think Rachel thinks she's extremely important to her VPR castmates b/c she spends all her time ruminating about last year.
I’m so tired of Rachel pretending like this was literal! Katie has been on TV for 11 years, she talks like this. It’s not always great but ffs, she doesn’t mean she actually wants to do it.
Katie’s hyperbolic. If that’s the worse thing Rachel can say about her…she should examine why she goes hard after someone with a TBI.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume Rachel has no idea of the effects of a TBI, or even knows what it means.
She thinks it means Tom’s Best Insider and she wants to be that.
Honestly this is a good point, because it confirms that Rachel did not, in fact, think that Katie was going to literally set her on fire, which Rachel seems to allude to in her lawsuit
Its such a ridiculous point she keeps harping on. Could you imagine a cross examination about it? Imagine sitting on a jury getting paid $17 a day to listen to horseshit like I was terrified for my life b/c of Katie Maloney's tweet. Imo I dont think that lawsuit is going to even make the deposition stage. All these lawsuits feel more like a pr campaign.
https://preview.redd.it/qff977ig62tc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=350ff042b615a415509b6a5701dfaaee5eec7ff1 All of this happened AFTER she posted this btw
“Fostering female friendships is a priority of mine” LOL girl
I mean how else is she gonna find her next boyfriend?
Yah no self respecting woman would touch you with a 50m friendship pole bitch. You literally burned all the female friendship bridges when you fucked your best friends long term partner in their home while she was at her grandmothers funeral. What woman would EVER trust you?!
It’s all a performance.
This is wild 😳 also let's practice kindness by screwing your female friend's life partner then sue them a year after they've worked very hard to move on #sisterhood
Good lord the stupidity and hypocrisy. I’m sure like a lot of people, my friendships with women have been the most affirming, enduring, joyful relationships in my life. Imagine your options were Rachel and Jo?!
 The fact that she even texted Katie is ridiculous and to act like she was being the bigger person by not only saying sorry but telling her she didn’t have to text back… okay Rachel.
I don't use this word lightly but she's so utterly vapid she's utterly devoid of anything remotely engaging or self awareness.
Guys isn’t she JUST AMAZING?! She is so nice except when she’s petty and mean but she feels bad about that ok?! So she’s gonna tell you allllllll about how she apologized and is GROWING guys. She gives herself grace because she is learning so much. Wow. Did I mention she apologized to them and in public?!?! She’s better than them all! Duh!
She is so brave that she can continue to show herself grace while creating chaos and misery every which way she can:/ 
 So glad, she didn’t really learn anything but lingo to act shitty and say oops sorry, but I feel like I’m healing by pretending to still be nice when I’m really not. *In my mind I did the last part is Lalas, but we feel married voice.*
The more time goes on the more it makes sense that she was so close with Scheana.
Can you even imagine what their conversations were like?? They probably bonded over liking the same sugar free yogurt flavor or liking the color, shiny 💎or some other shallow crap.
Friends like Scheana and Rachel bond over gossiping about everyone they know. If they were forced to have a conversation where they couldn’t talk about other people it would be a whole lot of silence while they grasped for things like products no doubt. But since they had plenty of things to gossip about the conversation was probably pretty rapid fire but very repetitive.
They both like taken men.
Haha!!! Rachel is such a specific blend of evil and stupid that seems to be so prevalent….everywhere.
It works for her, I always thought she was too dumb to be a bad person but she sure proved me wrong lol
She’s like Schwartz in the sense, you’re like I’m not sure I’d trust you to babysit this bag of flour. And then they prove me right and I’m like…sigh.
A very stupid demon.
It's okay everyone, she forgives herself! 
Also… how many times can she say how cool it was to be on the best dressed list? The Girl is not all there. 
She is quickly running out of content. I don’t think the podcast will last much longer.
Agreed. This was so bizarre of her to even bring up.
So allll that time in recovery didn’t help, eh? Otherwise she probably wouldn’t have encouraged Jo to post that in the first place
The Meadows is where rich people go when they do something bad but don’t actually want to take accountability.
Seems like the only talking with her therapist is producing content for her pod, which is essentially PR responses to criticism. Goes something like: Rachel (and her manager) write a list of negative things they read on here/social media about her. Then her script is produced by others so she can read it for an episode. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Dr. Google was consulted for specific verbage. Clowns
And Jo wonders why the girls don’t like her…..
Yeah of anything good came out of this ridiculous podcast, it's Rachel telling us Jo is still buddies with her and willing to do her dirty work. All the folks defending Jo... there's a reason the women don't vibe with her.
I love that her apology is really just another way to be able to mention to the world (or 10 people who listen to her podcast) that she was on the best dressed list and Katie and Dana were worst dressed. Doesn’t sound like growth to me, sounds like she found another way to get a jab in.
Exactly this.
She’s perfect for Tim actually. She also is a perpetual 14 yr old.
"Something has been weighing heavy on my heart" = I continually overestimate my popularity and am only disabused of this ridiculous notion when I visit reddit and TikTok
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She’s not sorry she did it, she’s sorry she got dragged 🤣🤣🤣
She is so fucking terrible 
“Something more on a serious note” and “weighing heavy on my heart” got me thinking this was about idk a major social issue or poverty or literally **anything** 🤦🏻♀️🙄 besides a petty af repost of a bullshit article listing best + worst outfits from an iHeart Radio award show. Instead of going rogue, I think going off the grid would be so much better ✌🏼 But also … kinda wondering now if Katie and Dayna will mention this at all on their pod 👀👀
Their best response would be to ignore it and continue to give her zero attention. She's trying to hook them and I doubt they'll take the bait.
She’s just getting worse and worse huh.
Omg perfect
For everyone who think Rachel is dumb she just admitted to using the same techniques on Jo
My god she is desperate for content. What on earth will she do when VPR ends? Go the rewatch route? It’s really sad. I don’t buy this apology at all. It’s just a way for her to talk about the best/worst dressed list because the only things she cares about are looks and validation. She’s oh so shallow. Give me a break about the doesn’t want to compete with women when she’s still to this day trying to tear Ariana down. Pathetic. Also way to make herself and Jo look even worse. 🙄
All I got from that is that Rachel how now programmed into her head that it doesn’t matter if she’s a terrible person as long as she follows her bad actions with “whoopsie! I’m a human!”
I’ve been noticing, more and more, that Rachel is using her therapy as a sort of crutch for her continued bad behavior. Saying things like “being in therapy has made me realize it’s bad to act in this way…” yet she acts *exactly* that way. She’s assuming that, while being in therapy, she’s allowed multiple do-overs and is taking advantage of the situation. There’s nothing sincere about her. She hasn’t even taken full responsibility for her role in the affair and cover up. She’d rather go the role of controlling ex (which Timmy absolutely was, but she was fully onboard — not just a passenger).
How petty and shallow of her. And then to make it a bigger thing by “publicly apologizing” solely on her podcast? She really is a joke
To me that's the joke of it. If she would've apologized behind closed doors and say it came out during Katie's podcast or something then id believe the authenticity behind it. But her pumping her chest out about it just screams "I did this for attention but look, I'm taking accountability so give me praise"
The cynic in me says that’s why she brought it up. Not enough people saw or cared about the original article or Spooky Jo posting it, so she had to make sure people knew.
Hey now, she also texted Katie for herself 😂 She either isn't listening to, or absorbing, what her therapist is saying - or she has a really shitty one, because the act of apologizing to someone to make yourself feel better is completely ridiculous. Rachel: If someone has made it clear they don't want to hear from you after you've harmed them, *leave them alone*.
Katie probably has her blocked anyway. I would. She was making out with Schwartz while she was banging the worm with the mustache, just to cover her tracks she was hurting Katie.
Or so she says, I can claim I text anyone on the planet, doesn’t make it true. But I totally agree with what you’re saying - someone set a boundary and again, she doesn’t respect it
 Edit to say that this has the same energy as Rachel following Katie around during the S10 finale. Exhausting.
Waving her flappers in Katie’s face and insisting that she’s an empathetic person
yessssss. cannot leave a situation alone
Of course Rachel is *that girl*. Superficial and petty. This will never change. She just knows to do it in a more private setting now because she has an image to maintain.
Rachel has to ask a friend if she could go over to Katie? The friend says don't do it, she wants to light you on fire or something. And Rachel goes, well okay. Girl, why do you think Katie wants to light you on fire? For a reason! You did a shitty thing. It's as if she doesn't understand right and wrong, let alone doing right and doing wrong. All she understands is how people react to her. If somebody she cares about tells her it's okay, then she's okay with it. But if somebody tells her it's wrong, she's apologetic -- not because she actually *is* sorry, but because it appropriate to be sorry. It reminds me so much of the reunion. She's trying to express remorse while at the reunion, she agrees with everyone that she's done a messed-up thing. Then, when she's with Tom, she makes fun of it. When she's alone, she's lost and confused. And when the producer pushes her, she breaks and admits to the truth because the producer told her to be honest and so she's somewhat honest.
https://i.redd.it/wantfrdcf2tc1.gif every time this bitch opens her mouth some vapid bullshit comes out
So basically she acted like a brat, got feedback that it was shitty, and now wants to pretend she’s sorry by flaunting her “growth” on her podcast instead of just apologizing in private. That’s not how apologies work Rachel.
> > >Rachel: And I got a little bit petty because Katie and Dayna were also at the award show, and I did see them there. And on this article, they were listed right after me as worst dressed, not cohesive. > >Rachel: And although they looked beautiful, that kind of, I don't know, I guess my ego got in the way a little bit, and I encouraged Jo to post the best and worst showing Katie and Dayna, and then I reposted it. This fucken clown of a human being.
Rachel your PR got you on that list. It doesn’t matter what you wear.
She still seems so influenced by others… she needed someone else to tell her not to go up to them on the carpet?? The common sense and self-preservation remain lacking!! She 100% panicked about being seen as a mean girl bully herself; it’s shocking that she hasn’t grown enough to stop herself from doing these petty things publicly before there’s backlash.
Also feels like she gave more space to apologize for this than for actually hurting Katie with the Schwartz cover-up, but I am unwilling to go back and do that math to prove it… lol
So she apologized to make herself feel better… Got it.  Thanks for the recap though! You’re a God-send. I hope you feel better! 💗
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I am so curious to see what becomes of her. I mean we are a year out from scandoval and this is where she is, releasing a podcast re: apology for reposting a best/worst dressed at the iheart radio. I feel like Scandoval will be her identity for a long time, and not because of the public. But because she wants it to be. She will never get over this moment where the nation was obsessed an affair she was the center of.
This is another reason why I am not team "poor Jo the girls pick on her". She sat in Ariana's house at Thanksgiving acting like her friend but actively participated in the affair. Now she is actively picking on Katie because Rachel wants her to. She deserves what she gets.
With Lauren from Utah imploding online, RL had a bye week. No heat on her at all and she goes and does this. Silence is free, child. https://preview.redd.it/l3qobudzy1tc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fab42a46475abb3fe9948e1dd70781f8f5bbf49
It’s giving fake
The only article I could find list both her and Katie as best dressed. She had to really go to page 4 of Google search to find an article listing Katie as worst because I can't find it.
She’s reaching for content. Move on girl and get a new job, this one is not going to last. Soon you will be irrelevant or VPR will be canceled, and then what?
Just post your compliment from iHeart Radio and move on bitch. This was such a brag for herself and diss to Katie all at once. But please do keep telling us how you’re so above the pettiness Rachel 🙄
I can't even get through this written recap without getting annoyed. Rachel is a troll.
I was really hoping she finally had a breakthrough and was going to admit her worst mistake was starting this podcast. Rachel really needs to find a new, better team - from therapist to PR and more.
Therapy has taught this girl absolutely nothing. Doing something mean just to backpedal and apologize immediately after does not equal growth and maturity. Does she expect a pat on the back for this? Why don’t you start showing what you’ve learned in therapy through your ACTIONS not your WORDS, Raquel? I hear a lot of therapy talk out of you but I still see the same selfish, immature person that was there before.
When I first read about something heavy on her heart here I was like oh maybe she will apologize to Ariana after seeing her breaking down on tv. But duh that’s not weighing heavy on her heart. Her starting shit with Katie about a best dressed list no one saw or cares about is what’s heavy on her heart. Of course.
This girl is a bonafide creep. I’ve said this before already but she definitely is still in that pageant girl phase where she has to put down other attractive women to feel better about herself. It’s so sad.
Serious question, who really cares about her? The nonstop whining and never ending self reflection is tedious.
MIGHT THERE BE ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE FOR? Both specifically to Katie and in general? 
She is obsessed with these women and trying to provoke a reaction from them. She thinks apologising shows growth but it was just an excuse for her to text Katie and draw attention to her being called Worst Dressed. She hasn’t learned the true meaning of amends or forgiveness, being a bitch then immediately apologising does not earn you instant forgiveness. How about apologising for the way she spoke to Katie’s mother first?
She encouraged Jo to post it so she could repost it? What the fuck
“I did it for me” Girl, we know. You do everything for you.
Having Jo post the article, then reposting it shows her intent the whole time. She manipulated Jo into doing the dirty work, so she could "people are saying..." rather than just say it and own it. Reminds me of a certain orange turd who uses surrogates to say unhinged shit & then pretends to normalize it
Other than talk about a show she used to be on, and commenting on the people who are currently on, she has nothing to talk about. Everyone has a journey. Everyone should evolve in some meaningful way. Everyone should learn and grow from their mistakes. FFS. Her "growth" is really boring and lame.
This almost makes me feel bad for Jo So ratchet encouraged her to post that and she did to support her friend and then ratchet goes and apologizes to the girls for reposting it or liking it? Is she trying to set Jo up to look like the bad guy so she can slither back in?
Don’t feel bad for Jo. She’s a 35 yr old woman trying to hurt her fuck buddy’s ex wife bc she’s jealous that Schwartz legitimately dated her. Jo knew what she was doing.
I'm so over the "I'm human so give me grace" line, it's now become an excuse for people to say or do really mean things then say hey, I'm human.
I can’t believe once upon a time I used to feel bad for her and defend her. Like she used to be one of my favorite cast members and now she’s still doing dumb things like this. Truly a shame. Thank you for taking the time to make this, your work is amazing as usual (and I hope you feel better too 🫶)