R-Truth Reflects On Short-Lived WWE Release, How It’s Part of WWE: Unreal Season Two

R-Truth is a featured part of WWE: Unreal season two with his brief WWE release being documented, and he recently spoke about the matter in a new interview. As you know, the WWE star was released from the company in June of last year, only to be brought back a week later over fan uproar.

That period will be covered in the upcoming season of the Netflix reality show, and R-Truth spoke with Stephen A. Smith about the new season of the show. You can see the highlights below:

On Being Featured In WWE: Unreal Season Two:

“My part is about when I got released. I think it’s the most — I haven’t even seen it yet, it’s very emotional for me. It’s when I got released, and got so much overwhelming amount of support from the people, the fans — I call them “family” now — that it’s just unreal. And this season man, I’m happy to be a part of it. And if you haven’t seen it, you need to go see it.”

On His Reaction To Getting Released:

“It was numb, Steve. It was a — sometimes man, we lose and forget who we are. There’s people that are my age and older that, their time ain’t up. I think Father Time, each individual has his own time, when its time. And we have time to make something happen within that time.

“So I think that everything that happened, happened at the right time for me. Because as we saw, man, I’m more popular and more valuable than I’ve ever been in my life in my career. Over hundreds of millions of people showed and told me that.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Stephen A. Smith with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.

Shoutout to @RonKillings for joining the show to talk about returning to the WWE pic.twitter.com/U8KE8Bowo2

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) January 6, 2026