R-Truth Struggles With John Cena’s Heel Turn and Says Little Jimmy Is “In Turmoil”

R-Truth is still trying to wrap his head around John Cena’s shocking heel turn at Elimination Chamber 2025, and he’s not ready to talk about it just yet—at least, not fully.

Speaking with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, the WWE veteran was asked directly about Cena’s betrayal of Cody Rhodes and his brutal team-up with The Rock and Travis Scott. Cena later dethroned Rhodes at WrestleMania 41 to become WWE Champion, and while R-Truth publicly congratulated him on SmackDown, he’s clearly still processing the emotional fallout.

“Why y’all asking me that? Y’all noticed I haven’t spoke on that at all, right? And I don’t want to speak on it right now,” R-Truth said. “I’m hurt to the beyond hurtstivity—that is a word—saying it’s way up there in the heart somewhere, there’s no need to talk about it.”

Truth referenced Cena’s iconic slogans like “hustle, loyalty, respect” and his work with Make-A-Wish, implying that it all feels like it’s been shattered. “Little Jimmy, I have to deal with that. I’m saying he’s in turmoil because of that.”

Van Vliet didn’t hold back and brought up Cena’s low blow on Cody Rhodes during the Elimination Chamber attack. But Truth wasn’t ready to accept that version of the story. “We don’t know that for sure. It looked like it went there, but we don’t know that. [It could have been] to part of the inner thigh.”

He continued, “Y’all know how you’re going through a situation, and you’re thinking about it, you know you need to do something about it, but you leave it where it’s at, because right now it’s still stewing and simmering, and you still don’t know how to react about it. That’s where I’m at with the John Cena thing.”

R-Truth’s loyalty to his childhood hero is clearly clashing with reality, and it’s left both him—and Little Jimmy—completely rattled.

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