{"id":42866,"date":"2026-01-15T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=42866"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:19:14","slug":"rob-opens-up-about-dark-place-after-not-being-told-why-he-was-murdered-on-the-traitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/15\/rob-opens-up-about-dark-place-after-not-being-told-why-he-was-murdered-on-the-traitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob opens up about &#8216;dark place&#8217; after not being told why he was murdered on The Traitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Cesternino is opening up about a &#8220;dark place&#8221; he went to mentally after he was murdered on <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/13\/colton-underwood-on-the-traitors-is-getting-backlash-after-he-was-accused-of-stalking-ex\/\">The Traitors US.<\/a> He revealed that he was never told the reason behind why he was second to get killed, which led to him &#8220;having a hard time when it first happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/2A29-FVGDXQ\">RHAP<\/a>: &#8220;I go into the room and I get the letter and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t understand.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t understand on a couple of different levels: how it happened, where I&#8217;m like, I knew what they were doing. I didn&#8217;t do the conga line, how is it murder in plain sight?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rob explained how they &#8220;don&#8217;t tell you&#8221; why a faithful gets murdered, which led to him going to &#8220;a little bit of a dark place for a few days&#8221;. After it happened, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/18\/60-hour-fasts-to-cutting-out-sugar-the-insane-amount-of-prep-survivor-winner-had-to-do\/\">Survivor<\/a> star was just focused on wanting to get home, as he wanted to see his supportive wife, Nicole.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTeNxWGAFpJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTeNxWGAFpJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script> Rob said: &#8220;Nicole did everything in her power to make me feel as appreciated and welcomed as humanly possible. I was just like, &#8216;I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s over. I&#8217;m here, like everyone&#8217;s going to get all of these friendships, and I&#8217;m out? Like, this sucks.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so p***ed, I can&#8217;t believe this is how it worked out because I really felt like I&#8217;m not super woo-woo. I felt like I was going to go out there and this was all going to go my way. The universe was conspiring in my favour, this was the perfect story,&#8221; Rob added.<\/p>\n<p>He noted how, although he didn&#8217;t get cast for Survivor 50, he was at least on The Traitors US, and it was &#8220;going to be great, and then, all of a sudden, I was gone.&#8221; Rob continued: &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t make sense, I showed my light, I played a bad hand as good as I could have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like <\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Reality Shrine<\/a><\/i><i> on <\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Facebook<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was really affected about being second to go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734182,"featured_media":42890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1990],"class_list":["post-42866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-the-traitors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/01\/15\/rob-opens-up-about-dark-place-after-not-being-told-why-he-was-murdered-on-the-traitors\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Rob opens up about &#8216;dark place&#8217; 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