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

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

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

Days after her elimination, Delvey appeared on Tori Spelling’s podcast, where she reflected on the reason behind her brief comment.

“Because that was the truth,” she said. “You guys told me what I’m supposed to do. I tried to do it and then I still was rejected. And, I’m taking away nothing. This is what I’m taking away from it because your advice was worthless.”

“The advice … did not pay off for me, even though I tried to follow it. And this is how I felt,” she continued. “I know… people were trying to interpret my answer in different ways, but no, not really. I really did not take away much from this experience.”

Delvey later added, “I think I had to be on the defensive, especially after all the backlash that I received being cast on the show, even though the producers [tried] to defend me and I think everyone on the cast was generally very nice to me. But in the end, I don’t know.”

“I thought, like, ‘Well, they were building me up.’ It’s like, ‘Well, only if you smile more, only if you do X, Y, Z, it’s going to be so much better,’” the told Tori Spelling on her “Misspelling” podcast. “It felt like they put so much effort in trying to get me on the show and make me feel comfortable, just to eliminate me this early.”

She continued,  “I see it, yeah, like an attempt of an embarrassment for us to get eliminated before Eric [Roberts] or Reginald [VelJohnson] in a dancing competition. Even though in the end it’s not that big of a deal.”

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

“It just felt a bit upsetting to me,” Delvey said. “It felt like a waste of time for me to do all this for them to just discard me so easily.”

While living in New York City, Anna impersonated a wealthy German heiress, seamlessly integrating herself into the city’s elite social scene. During her time there, she deceived numerous individuals, hotels, and banks, often relying on fake credit cards and forged bank statements to maintain her façade of affluence.

On April 25, 2019, Anna was convicted of eight charges in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court, including attempted first-degree grand larceny, as well as second and third-degree grand larceny and theft of services.

“I know the show was very excited to have me on, but the large part of the audience is not the people who would usually be excited about me in general,” she said on the podcast. “I never had high expectations for [the] show for myself.”

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

She leveraged her social status to defraud individuals, banks, and hotels, which ultimately resulted in her arrest in 2017 and her subsequent conviction for grand larceny in the first, second, and third degrees, as well as theft of services, in 2019.