Raquel Leviss has taken legal action against her Vanderpump Rules costar Scheana Shay.
On Tuesday, Leviss, 28, asked the Los Angeles Superior Court for a restraining order against Shay, 37, in documents obtained by PEOPLE. A hearing is scheduled for the morning of March 29.
It's not clear why Leviss filed the papers, however, the move comes amid the fallout with her costars after it was revealed that she had an affair with Tom Sandoval, 40.
When contacted by PEOPLE on the filing, a representative for Bravo said the network had no comment.
Shay was with Leviss when Ariana Madix found out that Sandoval, her boyfriend of more than nine years, had been cheating on her.
Madix discovered the scandal after she found a video and "inappropriate" messages between the two on Sandoval's phone while he was performing with his band, Tom Sandoval & the Most Extras, in Los Angeles on March 1.
Also that night, on the other side of the country, Leviss made an appearance with Shay on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen where she defended her decision to kiss Tom Schwartz, Sandoval's best friend and business partner.
After the taping, Leviss admitted to Shay the truth about her and Sandoval, a source told PEOPLE.
"Scheana was furious," the source said. "She and all the Vanderpump Rules costars have rallied around Ariana during this time. They can't believe Raquel would do something like that."
Leviss also sent a legal notice to her cast mates warning them not to share the recording of an intimate FaceTime session with Sandoval, which was the video Madix discovered on his phone. Letters were also sent to Sandoval and Madix, respectively.
The video in question was "a FaceTime call between Tom and Raquel. It had been screen-recorded by Tom. When Ariana found it on Tom's phone, she recorded it and sent [it] to herself," a source told PEOPLE.
In the legal notice viewed by PEOPLE, Leviss' attorneys claimed the video was recorded "illegally" and "without the permission" of the reality star. The letter addressed to Sandoval describes him as the person who allegedly recorded it.
The reality star's lawyers ordered that anyone who has access to the recording delete it from their phones, the cloud or "any other manner or method in which the recording may exist."
The attorneys also demanded to be informed of "all people to whom you have forwarded this recording or who you may have allowed to view this recording." In Madix's letter, lawyers noted that while they "appreciate the distress that this may have caused you," it is illegal to re-record the footage and could expose her to "criminal and civil penalties."
According to the lawyers, the distribution of the video would be a violation of California law, which makes it illegal to disseminate nonconsensual pornography. "This would include forwarding the recording to another person, even if only to one other person," the lawyers noted.
The letter concluded with a warning to the VPR cast, stating, "This matter should be taken very seriously." At the conclusion of Sandoval's letter, the lawyer notes, "This is very serious. Your exposure is significant."
