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Raquel Leviss went on a date with Peter Madrigal after her breakup with ex-fiancé James Kennedy

Raquel Leviss went on a date with Peter Madrigal after her breakup with ex-fiancé James Kennedy 2

Raquel Leviss revealed she is slowly beginning to date again after ending her engagement to James Kennedy, after more than five years together.

Just three months after splitting with the British music producer, 30, Vanderpump Rules star, 27, revealed she was asked out by former SUR manager Peter Madrigal, 37. 

‘It was just a fun little time. And I figured this would be a good opportunity for me just to get back out in the dating world because I haven’t had an official date since the breakup,’ she said on Katie Maloney’s podcast You’re Gonna Love.  

Looking for love: Raquel Leviss revealed she is slowly beginning to date again after ending her engagement to James Kennedy, after more than five years together; seen in 2018

Looking for love: Raquel Leviss revealed she is slowly beginning to date again after ending her engagement to James Kennedy, after more than five years together; seen in 2018

Just drinks: Just three months after splitting with the British music producer, 30, the 27-year-old Vanderpump Rules star revealed she was asked out by former SUR manager Peter Madrigal

Just drinks: Just three months after splitting with the British music producer, 30, the 27-year-old Vanderpump Rules star revealed she was asked out by former SUR manager Peter Madrigal

She recalled him asking her to ‘grab drinks with him,’ to which she replied: ‘Hmm, okay sure.’ 

‘This [was] literally the first person that asked me on a date,’ Leviss said. ‘I said yes because why the hell not? It’s good practice after five years. It’s scary but it’s also invigorating and exciting.’ 

Leviss and Kennedy announced their unexpected breakup in December due to a ‘cumulation of things’ that bubbled up over the years.

'It was just a fun little time. And I figured this would be a good opportunity for me just to get back out in the dating world because I haven't had an official date since the breakup,' she said on Katie Maloney's podcast You're Gonna Love; pictured with Kennedy in 2019

‘It was just a fun little time. And I figured this would be a good opportunity for me just to get back out in the dating world because I haven’t had an official date since the breakup,’ she said on Katie Maloney’s podcast You’re Gonna Love; pictured with Kennedy in 2019

For instance, Leviss revealed her former partner ‘always felt’ like her parents never ’embraced him into the family.’ 

‘My dad said some rude comment to him about him not wearing the hiking shoes he bought him when James asked for my dad’s blessing. He couldn’t find them, he was looking all over,’ she noted during an interview on the Scheananigans with Scheana Shay in January. 

She continued: ‘James was taken aback. He took it very personally. He took it as a knock to his ego and reacted in a way my sister says was not acceptable. And I agree, it wasn’t. Just like very angry and defensive and it go to the point where I was like, “Okay, we need to get out of here, go back to our hotel room and sort it all out.”‘ 

The star then said she realized that she’d been ‘making excuses’ for James and even went as far as to say she was losing ‘part of [her] soul.’

Moving on: Meanwhile, Kennedy recently made red carpet debut with his girlfriend Ally at iHeartRadio Music Awards last month, after enjoying a romantic Mexican getaway

Moving on: Meanwhile, Kennedy recently made red carpet debut with his girlfriend Ally at iHeartRadio Music Awards last month, after enjoying a romantic Mexican getaway 

‘It was getting to the point where my family and him were not meshing well and the future of Thanksgiving and Christmases and holidays was looking like it’s either going to be either James or my family,’ she said. ‘Especially like if we had a baby, I feel like James would make my parents out as like the not good grandparents and kind of put that in their heads. Just foreseeing this future and what it was all coming down to and I was like, “I don’t want that.”‘

Leviss made the decision to break up with Kennedy, but it still took her some time to bring it up to him.

‘Because James does have a history of acting out and being angry, my mom and I were both concerned that he wasn’t going to have a good reaction when I told him, so I wasn’t planning on saying anything until he went out of town,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t even know this.’

Leviss said Kennedy begged her for a second chance multiple times, but she felt she’d already given him quite a few chances in the past and wouldn’t off him another.

‘He was like, “Okay, I see it in your eyes. It’s over,’ she said. ‘He respected my decision. He was like, “If your heart isn’t in it anymore then I understand, we need to go our separate ways.”‘

Leviss said that now the two ‘speak occasionally’ and she hopes to maintain her friendship with him moving forward. 

Meanwhile, Kennedy recently made red carpet debut with his girlfriend Ally at iHeartRadio Music Awards last month, after enjoying a romantic Mexican getaway.

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