Lana Opens Up About Her & Rusev Removed From Total Divas

Lana and Rusev were recently guests on Lilian Garcia’s podcast, Chasing Glory. During the podcast, they opened up on a variety of topics.

One of these topics had to do with Rusev and Lana not being brought back for the next season of Total Divas.

Here is what Lana had to say (h/t Wrestlezone for the quotes below):

“It really sucks. I go through a whole bunch of different emotions. Kevin Dunn is so great. We were first told we were basically a shoo-in, and that we were incredible this season. I was told that he loved me, that Bunim-Murray, which is the production company that produces the show, loved me, WWE loves me, WWE loves us, that we should be working on our spin-off show.

Kevin Dunn told me that E! Executives took a poll and that we are strongly disliked by the demographic, they do not like us and that I’m hated, we’re hated, and that the E! Executives thought that our stories were very slapstick, and they were a strong no.”

I was shocked. I just sat there. It was like my tryout for WWE all over again. I’ve gone through a lot of different range of emotions. I’ll cry, but when I get hurt, I get really angry. That’s how I deal with hurt, I get really angry. Like, who is this new E! Executive? It’s just that I’m not liked and one part of me is like – and I said that – Mark Carrano and Kevin Dunn was there and I said, ‘Maybe, I’m just not a likable person.’ I know I’m a good person, but maybe I have a boring personality because I’m just not liked.”

Lana also says that the editing of the show didn’t paint her in the best light:

“There are so many things in edit that I was royally screwed over. They take someone saying something from one thing and put it there. In edit they can do whatever they want and that’s out of your control. If they want to make me more annoying and I have to play that annoying girl, they’ll do that.

There were some things I got really mad about, but it is what it is. I understand that’s what I signed up for. I understand that when you sign up for reality TV, you have to be ready to be not perfect and I was OK with that.”

How do you feel about Lana and Rusev not being on Total Divas anymore? Let us know in the comment section below.

On a related note, Rusev recently opened up about WWE’s decision to split up him and Aiden English. You can read his comments here.