Veteran WWE star R-Truth has reflected on his brief departure from the company in June 2025, and the support he received from both fans and his colleagues afterwards.
On June 1, 2025, just over a week after facing off with then Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena at Saturday Night’s Main Event, R-Truth took to social media to announce that he had been “released” by the company after 17 years of employment.
The reaction to the news was vociferous, with WWE staff, superstars and fans voicing their displeasure at the company’s decision not to renew Truth’s deal.
This then bled onto WWE programming as “We Want Truth” chants took over the following week’s episodes of Raw, SmackDown and NXT.
Just one week after Truth’s announcement at Money in the Bank 2025, Truth returned and attacked Cena during his and Logan Paul’s tag team match against Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso, with it later being confirmed that Truth had signed a new deal with WWE.
Appearing on the latest episode of Six Feet Under with The Undertaker & Michelle McCool, Truth was asked how he felt when seeing the outpouring of support from his fan base after his departure.
Truth said:
“There’s no words in the dictionary to express how I felt. My son was behind me when I got the call. And when I did the tweet… I couldn’t be salty, I’m not mad. We said at the top of this thing, ‘Truth you’ve been here for a while, you’ve experienced a lot.’ Like, yes. The ride. I’m thinking about the ride. My dad would always say ‘Enjoy the ride son.’ The ride was phenomenal. It was great.
“And I owe the thanks to WWE, I owe thanks to the fans. I owe thanks to the universe. I owe thanks to everybody that enjoyed this ride. And when that tweet went out, that was all it was meant to be. And it (was) just…The most moving thing that ever happened in my life.
“My son, he’s 25 and when I lived in Tennessee, that’s who was with me. That’s who I had to take care of. When I gave up (on wrestling) that’s who I thought (of). I kept going for him. I’m a single father, before I met my wife. And for him to say ‘Dad, it was worth it.’ I just broke down. That was deep to me.
“I’ve missed anniversaries, I’ve missed your school graduation, there’s so many things, occasions, funerals, so many things that I’ve missed in life, that I never did get to accomplish… It was just because of this wrestling business, and I did it, I did the best I could. But my son said, ‘Dad, it was worth it.’ It brought tears to my eyes. And to see the fans, to hear them, I’m watching and I’m hearing ‘We want Truth.’ Y’all don’t know how that felt. That’s lightning in a bottle. It never happens.”
Truth would then address the support he received from his peers in WWE, admitting it “almost makes him want to cry”:
“My peers at work, the ring crew, the camera crew, the crew in the truck. Like every part of that machine that makes it work spoke up, for me.
“We always ask ‘Are we worthy?’ And it brings such joy, it almost makes me want to cry because to feel that kind of love, I want everybody to feel that at some point. That’s an awesome feeling.”
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Sharing his view of the situation, The Undertaker said the entire situation “genuinely moved” him, and he believes the reaction from Truth’s peers to his departure is a testament to rhetorical quality human being he is:
“You know what that says? It says you did it right. Because in our industry, to have your colleagues put themselves out there where they could (be) in a position where they could be reprimanded. It could come back a little bit. That means you touched a lot of people’s lives.
“And what you’ve done, you’ve done it the right way man. It was incredible. For an old salty guy like me who’s been around and seen so much, I was genuinely moved, to like ‘Dang, this guy has made an impression in people’s lives.’ And when you can do that with your colleagues and the people that surround us, our production, like you said the production crew. That just says a whole lot about the human being right there.
“And if nothing else ever great happened in your career, having that, having your fan base go to bat for you, and your colleagues. Good on you brother, that’s awesome.”
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