Seth Rollins opened up about hitting rock bottom in 2019 when social media toxicity threatened his new relationship with Becky Lynch, revealing he eventually quit Twitter entirely to protect his mental health.
\"Social media was affecting my personal life. It was affecting my relationship,\" Rollins admitted during the interview. \"There\'s the hot takes and then the algorithm—whatever gets traction is going to be usually negative or a hot take and that gets amplified and you see that and you start to trick yourself into thinking that\'s the reality that I live in.\"
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The WWE star explained how the constant negativity compounded existing creative doubts: \"When you\'re already feeling bad about yourself or bad about what you\'re doing from a creative standpoint and then you have that on top, it just starts to pile on and you start to really feel a certain way about what you\'re doing.\"
Lynch echoed these concerns from a creative standpoint, questioning how performers can remain authentic under constant scrutiny.
\"You\'re listening to opinions about what you do 24/7. And I just feel like that we\'re not designed to do that,\" Lynch said. \"And also then how free can you be as somebody who\'s creating some sort of art?\"
Rollins revealed his solution: \"I still have [Instagram] but I did get rid of the cesspool that is Twitter. I don\'t really read comments on Instagram ever. Like I don\'t really get into the weeds on that.\"
The couple\'s struggles were intensified when WWE immediately put their real-life relationship on television in early 2019, forcing them to navigate both a new romance and public storylines simultaneously. As Rollins explained in the interview, Lynch made the first move at Royal Rumble weekend to finally start their relationship.
\"It took some full collapse to come back,\" Rollins said of his 2019 mental health crisis, which ultimately led to his social media reset and healthier boundaries.
The interview also covered how their daughter has struggled to understand wrestling storylines, highlighting additional challenges of raising children in the public eye.
