In an Instagram post published the same day 10 new episodes dropped on Netflix, Adriano confessed that the competition was shot during the “hardest, [most] emotional, and most challenging” time of his life. 

“What I had worked for endlessly 24/7 for the past 12 [years] fell apart in front of me from my mistakes and financial difficulties,” he wrote, referring to his food empire’s accumulation of $10 million worth of debt. “The reality is everything you pray to go your way doesn’t always happen. And you unintentionally let a lot of good people down.”