Simone Biles
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209 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Simone Biles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're not going to put me at the forefront of mental health, but again, if I can be a voice, let's go through this journey together because I know unfortunately a lot of us are struggling, but let's walk this journey together and let's go get healthy. absolutely.
My dad is always so calm and collected, it seems. So he was probably like, oh, is she okay? But probably not even that concerned. He was probably like, is she okay? Okay. Okay. Like, I think that's just what he was doing. My mom was like a mess. I could hear her crying and breaking down and that's what broke me too. It's because also I have so many people who have helped me
get to where I was, and I felt like I didn't just let down myself, I let down that team that was there, I let down America, I let down my trainers, I let down, there were so many people that helped me get there, and that's why every time I get to compete for Team USA, or I'm on top of that podium, I'm so grateful, and that medal's not just for me, it's for everybody that has helped me get there.
So it's like, at that point it was really heavy, because I was like, I couldn't even, at that point, I couldn't even look at Laurent. Like Cecile helped me so much, but I couldn't look at Laurent. Why? I felt like I failed him. And I've never said that out loud, so it's like, and they've helped me get to that point, because I never thought I was gonna do gymnastics again.
And so I felt like I let down Laurent.
He doesn't let, he tries not to let anything get to him. And I knew that got to him.
I changed my routine because I didn't have to twist. Flipping wasn't necessarily the problem. It was flipping and twisting. And so one of the gyms there let me go train there. And I have, like, videos from that too. And so they let me change my dismount. And I've done a full in for, like, eight or, like, seven years or eight years. I hadn't done a double pike in, like, that long.
So going back and trying to control that, and I kept over-rotating it, was insane, I was so scared because my dismount is typically harder. And so I was like, okay, I can still do beam if we change my dismount. And we were able to change it and at that point I didn't think I was gonna medal. I was like, I just wanna go out there, compete, because this is what I came here to do.
Because I pulled out of every final, but every time I pulled out of a final, I felt like it was another night.
so um i got to do beam and i was really excited and then of course a lot of people hated that well of course she's gonna do it for herself and i was like you don't see me twisting do you still not twisting but um yeah once the score came up i was like oh thank god like made a beam routine and then we saw that i was gonna medal and i hit cecile and i said A bronze?
And after Rio, I got a bronze on beam. And I was shunned. And people were like, throw that medal away. You should have got a gold because I did mess up. But there's no telling what the medal would have been. But I did mess up. So I ended up with a bronze. And so... I was scarred from having a bronze medal because I never really talked about my bronze because people made me so ashamed of it in Rio.
And so whenever I got that bronze, you couldn't tell me that it was bronze. It felt like a gold to me. Right, you're like, I'm just happy I got a medal.
I'm happy I got back out there.
I'll take a bronze. Yeah, so it's just like... From one spectrum to the other, from having a real bronze to a Tokyo bronze, it's like polar opposites. Like I'm swinging that thing around.
Yeah, I was mentally, physically exhausted, drained. I have nothing left, and I can't put on a face anymore. I physically could not wait to land in Houston, and they made us go to New York to do the Today Show. And so I got my hair and makeup done, whatever. Still putting on a great face, because I'm like, all I want to do is hold my mom and cry. I want my mom. Like, I just want my mom.
And, like, just for today, so, sweetie, smile. Yeah. And so as soon as we landed in Houston, again, there was at the gate so many cameras, so I still had to put on a face. I couldn't break down. But I hugged my mom, and I just, like, felt comforted. But I couldn't break down until we got home. And guess what? When I got home, they threw a parade. And they were like... Get ready, Simone.
We have a parade through the neighborhood. Like, get your convertible. Smile and wave. I just wanted to have, like, a breakdown. And I didn't want to have it. This mental breakdown, it was waiting.
I just wanted to cry and be like, this was the shittiest thing ever. I don't know why it happened. I just wanted to soak in my feelings and to be by myself. And I didn't want anybody to tell me that it was okay anymore. Because I'm tired of everybody telling me it's okay. It's okay to you. It's not okay to me. What happened was not okay. Like, so that, that was that. So when did you break down?
Probably when I had to unpack that suitcase. And then I went on tour and I was hosting my own tour across America, gold over America, which was absolutely amazing. The fans, the kids, beautiful. We put together an amazing production. But like, even before some of those shows, I had therapy. Say my, I can't recall what time our show started, but say it started at seven.
I would be on therapy from like, 4.30 to 6. And then I would give myself an hour to get ready and some days Jordan would come in my room because I had my own room. I'd be bawling my eyes out trying to put on my makeup because I'm talking to my therapist. about the Olympic experience, put on my face, woo, hi, Gold River America, love to see you. Like crazy.
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