Nastia Liukin ‘Absolutely’ Wishes She Would Have Stayed On ‘Special Forces’ After Shocking Exit (Exclusive)

Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin discontinue Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test connected time 2 of the journey. She conquered immoderate doubts she had by successfully completing the car plunge challenge, but she received immoderate uninspiring feedback from Gus Kenworthy due to the fact that a subordinate of the directing unit was successful the car with her. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Nastia astir her determination to leave and whether oregon not she has immoderate regrets.

Nastia Liukin earlier the car plunge. (FOX)

“I was precise honored to person been capable to beryllium portion of specified an unthinkable radical of people, some my chap recruits and besides the staff,” Nastia began. “I deliberation the acquisition successful itself was conscionable what I instrumentality with maine for the remainder of my life. Do I privation I was could person stayed longer? Yeah, absolutely. I deliberation looking backmost astatine it, particularly present that it’s been months, I bash evidently privation I could have. But astatine the aforesaid time, and for each of us, it was surely a idiosyncratic journey, and it benignant of ever has been from the start. It was genuinely conscionable maine against myself. Only I could benignant of beryllium the 1 to accidental that I person reached my limits oregon whatnot. I deliberation letting immoderate people’s words get to me, that’s the satellite that we unrecorded in. It’s truthful driven by societal media and the net and stuff. Everyone tin person their ain sentiment but conscionable making definite that you enactment existent to who you are, and I knew astatine that infinitesimal my integrity was connected the enactment of perchance being questioned. That’s thing I don’t instrumentality lightly and I ne'er did.”

Both Mike Piazza and Gus tried to person Nastia to instrumentality astir earlier she handed successful her wristband. But aft realizing that immoderate of the recruits didn’t o.k. of the alleged “special treatment” she received, the Olympian decided present was the clip to go. Nastia revealed what was going done her caput successful the moments earlier she left.

“I didn’t inquire for Remy to beryllium successful the car with me, and I didn’t inquire for peculiar treatment,” the 33-year-old said. “I didn’t triumph the Olympics with peculiar treatment. I did consciousness similar I received it determination [on Special Forces], truthful it conscionable made maine a small spot uncomfortable. It benignant of started making maine question my ain integrity.”

She continued, “But I conjecture aft a period of reasoning astir it I realized I should person possibly stayed and that it was a idiosyncratic travel to unlock caller and aged things wrong myself. The unit does everything for a reason, truthful determination was a crushed wherefore they did that. For me, astatine the moment, I surely felt arsenic if it was ‘special treatment.’ But, again, they bash everything for a reason. I saw Remy’s station and helium said thing similar we knew that infinitesimal was either going to bring the recruits person unneurotic oregon origin the rift. Unfortunately, it was the latter.”

Nastia acknowledged that this has been “such a learning lesson” for her. “It happened each truthful rapidly connected the show, but I deliberation the biggest constituent is the mode I was raised was astir maintaining your integrity, but besides astatine the aforesaid time, I benignant of fto different words different people’s words deter my path. I deliberation that’s truthful important to not fto thing similar that hap careless of if it’s a TV amusement oregon conscionable beingness oregon societal media oregon immoderate it’s like. Unfortunately, it’s the satellite that we unrecorded successful each azygous day,” she told HollywoodLife.

Nastia Liukin successful ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.’ (FOX)

Nastia revealed that each of the recruits are successful a radical chat, truthful they enactment successful touch. “Jamie Lynn [Spears] really messaged maine past nighttime arsenic I conjecture everybody was benignant of watching and conscionable sent a very, precise sweet, thoughtful, precise agelong connection astir however arrogant she was,” Nastia said. “I thought that was conscionable truly bully of her to person gone retired of her way. We each effort to really spot each different arsenic well. I don’t unrecorded successful LA anymore, but whether we’re traveling for enactment oregon someone’s conscionable traveling we ever effort to get together. We surely similar to extracurricular the chat, and past adjacent conscionable connected societal media arsenic well.”

The golden medalist admitted that the pugnacious and grueling ambiance of Special Forces was thing she wasn’t utilized to. “As an athlete, my full beingness my dada was my coach, truthful helium conscionable instilled however important it is to get capable remainder and slumber and however important it is to person due nutrition,” Nastia explained. “I recognize you can’t comparison grooming for the Olympics and Special Forces to being successful war, obviously, but I deliberation a operation of that with going into thing feeling not prepared and not knowing what was to come, some things were benignant of challenging for maine conscionable due to the fact that I kept telling myself I would ne'er spell into the Olympics oregon immoderate contention feeling unprepared. That’s benignant of however I felt the full clip due to the fact that I conscionable didn’t cognize what was to come.” Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test airs Wednesdays connected FOX.

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