{"id":559470,"date":"2026-04-30T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559470\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:05:09","slug":"gina-carano-admits-being-depressed-and-in-horrific-condition-after-star-wars-firing-and-filing-lawsuit-against-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559470\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Carano admits being \u2018depressed\u2019 and in \u2018horrific condition\u2019 after \u2018Star Wars\u2019 firing and filing lawsuit against Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gina Carano put on a brave face in the wake of her firing from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian following a series of controversial posts on social media,<\/a> but in reality her acting career being torpedoed left her in a terrible place.<\/p>\n

As she prepares to return to her roots in MMA for a fight against Ronda Rousey on May 16, the former Strikeforce superstar admits that her public dismissal, which also nixed plans for a Star Wars series in which Carano would have served as one of the leads, was a difficult pill to swallow. Carano\u2019s physical condition deteriorated as a result as she became pre-diabetic and she was physically unable to walk long distances without dealing with extreme pain.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was in a horrific condition, just physically and a bit emotionally,\u201d Carano told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cI kind of lost my way and was just depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the midst of all this, Carano was also navigating her way through a lawsuit she filed against Disney for wrongful termination. She eventually reached a settlement with Disney (the terms were not revealed) but that helped close a devastating chapter in her life.<\/p>\n

Disney eventually released a statement saying the company looked \u201cforward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms.\u00a0Carano\u00a0in the near future.\u201d Considering how the company distanced itself from Carano after her firing, she was stunned by the statement that followed the resolution of the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody really picked it up,\u201d Carano said. \u201cBut it\u2019s such a remarkable contrast from that first very horrendous statement that they had put out years earlier. I don\u2019t recall Disney really doing that a lot at the time. That speaks leagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carano was eventually able to reconnect with The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau, who played a huge part in her casting on the show in the first place. They eventually met on a Zoom call together to talk everything out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was, \u2018Let\u2019s touch base,\u2019\u201d Carano said about the meeting. \u201cJon Favreau and Dave Filoni were two people that I always respected, and we went through two seasons together, and we had a great relationship. And even during everything that was happening, Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau were never the bad guys to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carano wouldn\u2019t say if the conversation included a possible return to the Star Wars universe in the future but she called the meeting an \u201cimportant conversation\u201d after everything that happened. While acting is still obviously in her future, Carano has spent the past six months getting ready for the showdown against Rousey, which serves as her first fight since 2009.<\/p>\n

Nothing was easy about the preparation considering where she was at physically when training began, but Carano promises she poured everything into her comeback.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m coming from pre-diabetic, just in horrific condition, to becoming an athlete again,\u201d Carano said. \u201cAnd to do that in a year and a half\u2014there\u2019s just been so many different levels of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m taking that opportunity. It\u2019s been truly one of the hardest but healthiest things I\u2019ve ever done for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as the buildup to the Rousey fight, Carano is happy with the relationship they\u2019ve built while promoting the event. Carano was concerned that she wouldn\u2019t fit into the current combat sports landscape where trash talk and animosity largely serve as the biggest building blocks for any event. She wasn\u2019t sure how Rousey would approach it either, especially after their first encounter years ago wasn\u2019t wasn\u2019t exactly friendly.<\/p>\n

Years earlier when Rousey was only a few fights into her career, Carano remembers running into her afterwards at a Strikeforce event. Rather than shake hands or enjoy a pleasant conversation, Carano remembers exactly what Rousey said to her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re not that big,\u201d Rousey told Carano.<\/p>\n

Carano says she only responded by saying hello to Rousey but ever since the fight was signed, she wondered how the former UFC champion would handle the promotion.<\/p>\n

Thus far it\u2019s been nothing but cordial and Carano says she\u2019s just excited to get back in the cage again, although she says Rousey still loves to tell her \u201cyou\u2019re really not that big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her response?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still bigger than you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gina Carano put on a brave face in the wake of her firing from the Star Wars series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[29141,102,75026,1906,6623,192072,192073,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-559470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-gina-carano","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-jon-favreau","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth","13":"tag-rhonda-rousey","14":"tag-star-wars-series","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}