She may have made history with her double-double beam dismount, but Simone still considers the first night of women's competition at the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships a night she wants to "throw in the trash." After her third event that night, the uneven bars, Simone even called her routine a "piece of sh*t" on national TV. Later, while chatting with TeamUSA.org, she said it was a relief to be able to express herself rather than hold her emotions in. "Should I have probably cussed? No, I probably shouldn't have done that, but it was real," Simone admitted. "It's what I felt in that moment."
For her, showing disappointment or anger is her way of release. She later added, "If you just show no emotion, you're kind of at a plateau. I feel like, before, I was a little bit scared to show emotion, but now it is what it is, whatever happens, happens; and it's OK to be mad if you think you did a bad routine."