Anna Delvey Stands Firm On ‘Nothing’ Comment After ‘DWTS’ Exit

The 33-year-old convicted con artist stunned “DWTS” followers when host Julianne Hough inquired about what she was taking away from her expertise, to which she candidly replied, “Nothing.”

Days later, she is opening up about her now-viral remark throughout a dialog with fellow former contestant Tori Spelling on her podcast, “misSPELLING.”

Days after her elimination, Delvey appeared on Tori Spelling’s podcast, the place she mirrored on the rationale behind her temporary remark.

“As a result of that was the reality,” she mentioned. “You guys instructed me what I am imagined to do. I attempted to do it after which I nonetheless was rejected. And, I am taking away nothing. That is what I am taking away from it as a result of your recommendation was nugatory.”

“The recommendation … didn’t repay for me, despite the fact that I attempted to comply with it. And that is how I felt,” she continued. “I do know… folks had been making an attempt to interpret my reply in several methods, however no, probably not. I actually didn’t take away a lot from this expertise.”

Delvey later added, “I believe I needed to be on the defensive, particularly after all of the backlash that I obtained being forged on the present, despite the fact that the producers [tried] to defend me and I believe everybody on the forged was usually very good to me. However ultimately, I do not know.”

“I believed, like, ‘Nicely, they had been constructing me up.’ It’s like, ‘Nicely, provided that you smile extra, provided that you do X, Y, Z, it’s going to be so significantly better,’” the instructed Tori Spelling on her “Misspelling” podcast. “It felt like they put a lot effort in making an attempt to get me on the present and make me really feel comfy, simply to remove me this early.”

She continued,  “I see it, yeah, like an try of a humiliation for us to get eradicated earlier than Eric [Roberts] or Reginald [VelJohnson] in a dancing competitors. Though ultimately it’s not that massive of a deal.”

The 33-year-old added that she had anticipated that her time on “Dancing With the Stars” would supply her with a second probability to disclose her true self to the world.

“It simply felt a bit upsetting to me,” Delvey mentioned. “It felt like a waste of time for me to do all this for them to only discard me so simply.”

Whereas dwelling in New York Metropolis, Anna impersonated a rich German heiress, seamlessly integrating herself into the town’s elite social scene. Throughout her time there, she deceived quite a few people, motels, and banks, usually counting on faux bank cards and cast financial institution statements to keep up her façade of affluence.

On April 25, 2019, Anna was convicted of eight expenses in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court docket, together with tried first-degree grand larceny, in addition to second and third-degree grand larceny and theft of providers.

“I do know the present was very excited to have me on, however the massive a part of the viewers will not be the individuals who would normally be enthusiastic about me generally,” she mentioned on the podcast. “I by no means had excessive expectations for [the] present for myself.”

Delvey, who sported a bedazzled ankle monitor as a part of her costume on the present, gained notoriety for posing as a rich heiress.

She leveraged her social standing to defraud people, banks, and motels, which finally resulted in her arrest in 2017 and her subsequent conviction for grand larceny within the first, second, and third levels, in addition to theft of providers, in 2019.