Cody Rhodes appeared on the “Out of Character with Ryan Satin” podcast this week to discuss a wide range of topics.
During the podcast, Rhodes looked back on the incident where surveillance footage leaked of AEW’s Ricky Starks being with him backstage at the WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view event in January.
“Well I’ll take full blunt, my fault. It was a friend coming to see me in a very big, truly emotional moment. To lose your confidence as an athlete, as a fighter, or an entertainer, whatever it is, to get back up off the mat and not just get back up, you’ve got to be at the level you were, I like having people in my circle around me. But I also think that will be the only time anyone from another company is ever present because it creates a conversation that is not accurate. He wanted to be there and support. He should have stayed his butt on the bus, but he did not, and because of that, no friends at work anymore. I’ll make some new friends at WWE so that there’s not random surveillance photos of them and I walking backstage.”
