Why Did Deontay Leave The Traitors? He Was ‘Struck By Childhood Trauma’
Just four episodes into the new season, many fans might be wondering why Deontay left The Traitors. Alan Cumming announced that Deontay would not be returning to The Mansion in a shocking twist.
The Traitors is a reality show based on the party game Mafia where 22 contestants play as “Faithfuls” who try to make it until the end to share the prize money of $250,000. Host Alan Cumming picks out a set of “Traitors” whose goal is to eliminate all of the “Faithfuls” so that they could steal the money at the end. “Traitors” can murder “Faithfuls” and the rest of the “Faithfuls” must choose who they think killed the “Faithful” and banish them. At the end of each day, they all come together to vote for who they think killed them. A “Faithful” can also go into the armory and gain immunity which allows them to be saved and not killed. At the end of the series, the remaining “Faithfuls” can share the prize money if there are no “Traitors” among them. However, if there is one “Traitor” remaining, then the “Traitor” wins the money for themselves.
Olympic bronze medalist boxer Deontay Wilder entered the mansion with strategy. He shared his wisdom with Entertainment Weekly, “I’m a straightforward guy. I keep it real with people at all times as I want them to keep it with me. I value the golden rule: Do unto others that you want them to do unto you, and that’s how I go in life.”
So why did Deontay leave The Traitors? Read more to find out.
Why did Deontay leave The Traitors?
Deontay left The Traitors due to overwhelming emotion. “I don’t know how much more I can go on. My heart. I can’t do this no more,” he told Alan Cumming.
In a press run before the release of the show, he explained why he ended up making the decision. “This game was definitely harder than I thought it would be,” Deontay told Us Weekly. “I thought it was trying to figure out [who] were the traitors, and being that you have so many more faithfuls than the traitors, that it would be kind of easy to try to figure it out. But being on this show, it really struck some childhood trauma from me that I didn’t expect.”
Deontay’s turning point was when he was seen. getting visibly emotional when it came to Maks Chmerkovskiy’s accusations. “Maks was one of the first guys that I met and I really kicked it off really, really well with him,” Wilder told the publication. “And we really built a certain type of friendship, a bond, and to be able to bear false witness against him when I really felt that he was [a traitor] because he started acting different and all that. We can go off of certain emotions, certain things that people do or whatever. You really have to have a watchful eye of things.”
Deontay called himself “a very emotional man in general.” He explained, “Although my profession is the hurt business, as I call it. But as a man, as Deontay Wilder, as a person, I’m a loving, caring guy that I love everybody and I want to see everybody succeed in life,” he said. “And I think you got the best of me being on the show.”
The Traitors is available to stream on Peacock. Here’s how to watch it for free.
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