“This season just wasn’t enjoyable due to the cast.”
The Challengestar Melissa Reeves never holds back.
“It was so much more boring [than my other seasons],” Melissa tells EW.
Melissa Reeves.MTV
“I much prefer doing seasons with the vets because the vets know how to have fun.
This season it was just constant whispers in the corner and it was just so two-faced.
This season just wasn’t enjoyable due to the cast.”
Melissa Reeves.MTV
“What’s going to happen now?”
she says with a laugh.
They’ve just got to turn on each other."
Melissa Reeves.MTV
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I was so excited to finally see you back this season, but what happened?
Who were you most surprised with when they didn’t sway to your side?
As I’ve now seen since watching it back, he wanted me out all along.
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He just didn’t have a callback.
So I understand what he is doing in a way.
He needs to be more entertaining.
But he just seemed all over the place, like he didn’t know what was going on.
He was just trying to get airtime.
But to use my child to benefit himself, it didn’t sit right with me.
And the weird thing is he’s tweeting callingmea snake.
Asaf, if you want to tweet abuse, at least make it make sense.
We will never turn on each other.
We were just fighting a losing battle from the get-go.
How did it feeling getting voted into yet another elimination?
Tori said if she got a choice, she wouldn’t have gone against me.
But obviously when she pulled my name, you start really overthinking them because it’s Tori.
Ultimately, I did let that get to me, which is a shame looking back.
[Laughs] Rayvn, of course, for my week.
And I don’t know if T will want me to say this …
Say it!
But for obvious reasons, I wanted Ravyn, and she kind of won this one.
Sounds like you and Ravyn could be a fierce Rivals pair in the future … ?
I could see that happening.
What was it like competing in that elimination against Tori?
I didn’t enjoy the elimination, I’m not going to lie.
I’m not the most confident in water, and it was quite cold as well.
And since becoming a mom as well, a lot of things have changed.
I’m more protective of myself.
In the past I was like, “Yeah, I’ll jump off that bridge.
I’ll do anything.”
And I didn’t care.
Now I’m like, “What if I die?”
I get in my head more.
I was just overthinking everything and panicking.
As soon as it finished I was kicking myself.
I really wish I could just do that again.
At what point did you realize you were going to lose?
When I heard everybody chanting for Tori.
[Laughs] I was already feeling really s—, and then you just start feeling worse.
I did keep trying, but there’s only so much you might take.
Even the argument with Ravyn, I was pushed to my breaking point where I’ve just snapped.
It was not a nice season to film.
Before the elimination began, Tori called out Moriah for her relationships with James and Bananas.
What was it like watching that happen?
It wassoawkward, because it wasn’t a laughing joke.
She’s friends with Bananas and she’s like, “It’s not cool.”
And obviously Moriah’s upset, so it was a very uncomfortable situation.
Everyone loves to gossip and they’re all friends with Bananas.
Speaking of relationships, did your connection with Kyland continue after you left the show?
We did keep in touch, yeah.
You’re just constantly missing each other.
We will always remain friends, but I’m not really sure anything will continue.
Was there any truth to those rumors?
Just a bitter ex-boyfriend not liking what he’s seeing [on TV].
I broke up with him before we started filming.
He has helped me raise Vienna, but my mum and dad had Vienna whilst I was away.
My parents had her.
But he has apologized to me since and said he was drunk when he did all the tweets.
Because the day I came back, I told him, “I’ve met somebody else there.”
I told him what happened, and me and him have been civil since, up until the tweets.
So it was a bit like, “Why are you doing this now?”
Because it now makes me look like I’m cheating when I wasn’t.
I’m not going to leave my child with someone and go and get with somebody else.
How am I ever going to get away with that?
[Laughs] Obviously I’m going to get caught.
It’s stupid, and I’m not that stupid.
it’s possible for you to’t even lie about that.
His tweets were just all over the place.
And they haven’t shown anything of me and Kyland since episode 2, so why now?
It’s just he got drunk and got angry.
Is there anything that happened this season that we didn’t see on TV?
I didn’t like it it was just off.
That’s an interesting thing to see, someone plotting against you whilst cuddling you.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
The Challenge: Battle for a New Championairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
