During a media tour in New York City, Cody Rhodes appeared on The Breakfast Club to talk on a number of topics.
Asked about an earlier comment regarding his wife Brandi’s “selfless” decision to not discuss the couple’s exit from AEW, Rhodes replied:
Our departure from when we left the company we were with and helped create, and that was AEW, it came down to her deciding to not talk about it, that departure. Like, ‘We’re not going to talk about it. We’re moving on. Did bad stuff happen? Good stuff happened too. I’m not going to talk about it.’
The topic has led to much speculation from fans on why the former TNT Champion left the company in February 2022, before making his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38.
Addressing this speculation, the reigning Undisputed WWE Champion added:
And one of the sad things about not talking about why we left and the departure, one of the difficult things was narratives get created. Stories get told, podcasts happen, fans literally think they know what happened when no one’s been even close. And what I would say is the selfless part, she lives with that. She owns that.
She respects not just here, but the place we left enough to, ‘I’m not going to talk about that.’ And that made it so that — they’re good. They’re out of here. That was very, very helpful for us. And again, good stuff happened there too. But that’s what I mean by selfless, because she lives with that.
The extent to which Cody has addressed his AEW departure is that there was a personal issue involved and that he felt “disrespected” at the end of his run.
Despite this, he has expressed love and respect for the company and has continued to root for its success.
Source: F4WOnline