Professional skateboarder and reality TV star Ryan Sheckler has opened up his painful experiences on his successful 2007 global MTV show “Life of Ryan.”
The skilled skateboarder turned celebrity was invited to Graham Bensinger's show "In Depth" to talk about his life and how things were going on his hit MTV series.
"That was definitely the last draws for me because that's already a very intimate piece of your life that you don't want people to know about or to see," Sheckler says when asked about how he stopped midway through the third season of his popular TV show.
Sheckler continued. "So we break up once and then the cameras are on, we break up again, cut and now the mood is really awkward and then they come over me and they're like," "hey that wasn't enough we need to do it again."
Sheckler explained that the show became acting and he realized that it was not the one he signed up for. "This is not what it started out as." He said. "It broke my heart dude like I don't know borderline traumatized me."
He stated how he didn't get into any relationship after the show until he was 25 years old because he doesn't want to go through another breakup again. "I have a heart man I have strong emotions and I don't like hurting people's feelings. Sheckler said.
The 31-year-old Red Bull rider says he doesn't want to blatantly hurt people's feelings over and over again just for the sake of television ratings.
He even said that he was nicknamed "Crying Ryan" which he thought was funny at first until it wasn't. "They were making fun of me crying about hearing that my parents were going to get divorced and I heard about it on camera. Sheckler said. "That was the first time I heard about it."
Graham Bensinger asked if there was any part of him he wishes he continued the show. He said. "No, it served its purpose. It was done how it was supposed to be done. I learned the lessons I was supposed to learn from doing it."
Sheckler says he was only a 17-year-old kid who got an incredible opportunity and he was in an interesting part of his career where it was always going up.