{"id":284981,"date":"2019-12-12T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1102226"},"modified":"2019-12-12T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:01:06","slug":"total-divas-sonya-deville-reveals-the-awkward-way-she-came-out-on-national-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/total-divas-sonya-deville-reveals-the-awkward-way-she-came-out-on-national-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Divas’ Sonya Deville Reveals the “Awkward” Way She Came Out on National TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sonya Deville<\/strong>‘s coming out experience<\/a> was certainly a memorable one.<\/p>\n

The Total Divas<\/em> star swung by Daily Pop<\/em> today and opened up about how she went from being in the closet to out-and-proud on national television. While Deville happily showcased her journey on<\/a> Total Divas<\/em>, which included her relationship with girlfriend Arianna Johnson<\/strong>, she admitted it’s taken years to get to this point.<\/p>\n

Per Deville, four years ago, while taping WWE Tough Enough<\/em> she was asked by Triple H<\/strong> if she was in a relationship. Even though this seemed like a simple enough question, it proved to be a complicated one for the now 26-year-old wrestler.<\/p>\n

“For me, I wasn’t openly gay at that time and I had a girlfriend. So, what’s going through my mind in that moment is, ‘Do I lie? No, I can’t lie. My girlfriend will kill me when I get home.'” Deville shared with co-hosts Justin Sylvester<\/a><\/strong> and Carissa Culiner<\/a><\/strong>. “So, I’m like, ‘Well, I have to tell the truth, right?’ So, I was like, ‘Uh, yeah, I have a girlfriend. But, not a wife yet.’ And got really awkward and gave like a really cringe answer.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Apparently, it was the WWE legend and executive producer who alerted Deville to the fact that she came out on national television.<\/p>\n

“Triple H started laughing and he’s like, ‘I think you came out on national television,'” the wrestler turned E! personality added. “And so, I ran upstairs, called my mom. I was like, ‘I just came out on national TV.'”<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Deville’s mom assured her that it would all be “fine” and “great.” And, she was right!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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As Deville highlighted during her Daily Pop<\/em> sit down, coming out allowed her to become more comfortable with her sexuality.<\/p>\n

“It forced me to be true with myself. In that moment, I was put on the spot and I had to tell my truth,” Deville expressed. “From then on it was like, ‘Wait, now I have to live my truth, ’cause everybody knows.'”<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Deville said she hopes her story will “help” and “inspires” others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch Sonya share her coming out story with Justin and Carissa in the video above.<\/p>\n

Also, be sure to watch the Total Divas<\/em> season nine finale HERE<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch Daily Pop<\/i> weekdays on E! at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sonya Deville‘s coming out experience was certainly a memorable one. The Total Divas star swung by Daily Pop today and opened up about how she went from being in the closet to out-and-proud on national television. While Deville happily showcased her journey on Total Divas, which included her relationship with girlfriend Arianna Johnson, she admitted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-09 04:25:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}