Ryan Shecker: Why I quit "Life of Ryan" | Trending Now

In this week’s fan-favorite podcast, skateboarding and reality TV star Ryan Sheckler talks of living out his life in front of TV cameras for MTV’s “Life of Ryan,” including painful, forced breakups and learning of his parents’ divorce. Sheckler says the experience was so traumatizing that he refused to date for years after the show ended, but he learned a lot from it.

Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Hey guys, Graham here. It's Friday, which means we get
to share with you another one ofour most popular clips from a
past interview this week, Brian Sheckler.
This trending clip comes from our TikTok.
Hope you enjoy. So the show the life of Ryan.
Went for. Three seasons, yeah, I think you
stopped midway through the thirdseason, but you started to you

(00:23):
started to sour on it at some point.
You you told the story before but that how they had you break
up with your girlfriends a couple of occasions.
On camera, yeah, you know this. And that was like, that was
definitely the last straws for me was like, 'cause that's
already a very intimate piece ofyour life that you don't want

(00:45):
really people to know about or to see.
So we break up once and then cameras are on, we break up
again, cut. Now the mood's really awkward.
And then, you know, they come over to me and they're like,
hey, we, that wasn't enough. We need, we need to do it again.

(01:06):
And so that's where the show became acting.
And it became like this thing where it was like, this is not
what we signed up for and this is not what it started out as.
Like, it broke my heart, dude. It broke my heart.
And it like, I don't know, borderline traumatized me.
But I didn't get into a relationship after the show
until I was 25 years old. What because?
I didn't want to have to go through a breakup again.

(01:27):
I have a heart and I have very strong emotions and I do not
like hurting people's feelings. I do not.
And so to blatantly have to hurtpeople's feelings over and over
again for the sake of television, for ratings
literally not rocked me. My nickname became Crying Ryan,
you know, which I thought was funny at 1st until it wasn't.

(01:52):
You know, they were making fun of me for crying about hearing
that my parents were going to get divorced.
And I heard about it on camera. You know, that was the first
time I heard about it. And so I cried and I held on to
my brother and then I was just like, Ryan can't find a chill
girl, you know? Ryan cries on TV.

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Mary, Mary. Eddie, part of you now wish
you'd continued with it. No, it served its purpose.
It was, it was done how it was supposed to be done.
I learned the lessons I was supposed to learn from doing it.
Hey, I wouldn't take it back either.
Bro, I was 17 years old, you know, I was a kid.
I was a kid that got an incredible opportunity, was in a

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very interesting part of my career where it was just seemed
to be going up and up and up andI figured this was the next best
step. Like I didn't know any better.
It was. It was beyond my wildest like
conception of what it could havebeen.
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