Stuck in the past? Nikki Bella admitted that she’s worried she won’t ever escape her breakup from John Cena.
“Going through a public breakup, that was difficult,” Bella, 36, told Hannah Ann Sluss on the Wednesday, April 29, episode of her and sister Brie Bella’s “The Bellas Podcast.” “What was tough about that was it came out before a season on air, so people thought it was a publicity stunt.” The Total Bellas star and the former Bachelor contestant, 24, had similar experiences — Sluss was proposed to by Peter Weber during season 24 of the show and then dumped before the finale aired — and according to Nikki it is hard no matter how serious the relationship. “Mine was different than yours because I was going through pain of, like, ‘No, this is real. I’m not lying!’” Nikki explained, noting that she “couldn’t imagine having to keep that in” and fake excitement over a possible finale engagement like the model did earlier this year. Nikki, who is expecting her first child with fiancé Artem Chigvintsev, split from Cena, 43, in March 2018 and after a brief reconciliation, they called it quits in July for good. Despite time passing, the former wrestler is scared it’ll never be fully behind her.
John Cena and Nikki Bella: The Way They Were
