--- title: "Lala Kent Says Bethenny Frankel ‘Completely Exploited’ Raquel Leviss" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2023/08/24/lala-kent-bethenny-frankel-raquel/ type: post date: 2023-08-24 modified: 2023-08-23 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2023/08/24/lala-kent-bethenny-frankel-raquel.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Lala Kent Says Bethenny Frankel ‘Completely Exploited’ Raquel Leviss ## Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent has a bone to pick with Bethenny Frankel following her sit-down interview with Raquel Leviss about Scandoval. Lala Kent says that *[Real Housewives of New York](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-new-york/)* alum [Bethenny Frankel](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-new-york/bethenny-frankel/) ***"exploited"*** Raquel Leviss during her first post-[Scandoval](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/08/22/ariana-madix-tom-sandoval-house/) interview. The 32-year-old slammed the [Just B podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-b-with-bethenny-frankel/id1531000011) host for using [Raquel Leviss](https://allabouttrh.com/category/vanderpump-rules/raquel-leviss/) to push her reality TV revolution agenda. ![Lala Kent at Pump Rules reunion](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-25-at-6.09.26-AM-1200x690.jpg)Pump Rules star Lala Kent ***“Well, it was a hit. A lot of people listened,”*** [Lala Kent](https://allabouttrh.com/category/vanderpump-rules/lala-kent/) said on Wednesday’s episode of her [Give Them Lala podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-one-where-the-pay-is-the-pay-no-matter-what-you-do/id1494722390?i=1000625354624). ***“I’m happy that [Raquel] finally got to take advantage of a giant platform to tell her story. I only saw clips. And what I gathered from it is, [Bethenny completely exploited that girl](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/08/17/raquel-leviss-pump-rules-salary/)yet again,”*** she continued. Lala Kent's co-host Jessica Walter noted that the entire interview ***“goes against everything [Bethenny] is preaching.”*** ***“To me, she sat there and said, ‘this girl is going to be easy to manipulate because I’m Bethenny Frankel,'”*** Lala alleged, adding Bethenny tried to ***“place Raquel in the narrative”*** that fit her agenda against Bravo and NBC Universal. ***“It was actually really sad to me because I really liked Bethenny Frankel. I felt like everything she said always made sense. She was a great arguer. She was extremely intelligent,” ***she said. ![Bethenny Frankel and Raquel Leviss take photo while recording episode of Just B podcast](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-10.19.30-AM.png)Bethenny Frankel and Raquel Leviss on the Just B podcast The *[Vanderpump Rules](https://allabouttrh.com/category/vanderpump-rules/) *star went on to slam Bethenny for being out of touch with ***"reality" ***and ***"reality TV." *** ***“I felt like Bethenny really tried to push her into a certain direction,”*** Lala quipped. ***“And Rachel being someone who … is very easy to manipulate. You put words out there, and she’s like, ‘yeah, that’s how I feel’ [but] it’s like, you don’t.”*** She added, ***“I don’t know why anyone would allow her to do that interview.”*** *Vanderpump Rules* will return to Bravo for [season 11](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/08/07/lala-kent-pump-rules-raquel-leviss/) in 2024. ## Thoughts on this all? Sound off below!