Warning: This article contains spoilers for theStars on Marsseason 1 finale.
“That’s when everything changed, when Lance brought up his opinions on trans athletes and sports.
“It changed my experience totally.
Adam Rippon and Lance Armstrong on ‘Stars on Mars’.Fox
It was not the same after that.”
But the way their living quarters were set up, sound carried.
But he tells EW that was not where things ended in reality.
It just wouldn’t end,” Rippon says.
He couldn’t let it go.
And it made me wildly uncomfortable."
He says he felt pressure to speak up as a queer athlete.
It was not nice and it was not good in any sort of way."
It wasn’t just the content of the conversation that irked the Olympian.
“The person talking about this is the most recognized cheater in all of sports.
So it’s just not the right time, it’s not the right person.
Just focus on what [host] William Shatner has to say and just get your job done.”
Armstrong quitStars on Marsafter moping around for several more episodes.
“Everybody was like, ‘Stop talking, yo stop talking about this.
Let’s just focus on the mission.
He was obsessed with not being able to get the last word.”
