Nikki Bella on WWE Raw appearance: ‘To be so accepted and loved felt incredible’
During the latest episode of The Nikki & Brie Show, Nikki Bella addressed her appearance at the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere.
Nikki and Brie parted ways with WWE in 2023, and the sisters announced they would not be using the “Bella” name moving forward. However, Nikki was introduced as “Nikki Bella” at the Raw on Netflix premiere on Monday night when she was shown at ringside.
She says returning to WWE felt like reuniting with family.
“Whether it’s a business family or it’s your actual family, there’s always at some point a rocky road. That’s life and life happens and emotions happen. And so we had that rocky road with WWE,” Nikki said on the show.
She continued, “As I’ve grown over the past few years and have continued to do the work on myself, I’ve realized times where I’ve made outbursts out of emotions that I probably shouldn’t have done. And then there’s times that I could recognize I felt hurt and I wanted to be heard, but that probably wasn’t the right thing to do. And this is why things were rocky.”
“I felt all these emotions because I felt at home and I was so happy to be home. And then to be so accepted and loved felt so incredible because things were rocky and then there’s nothing better – And we know this with our father and other people can relate to this stuff – is when you have that moment of making up and knowing that this bond is so strong because it’s pretty much like blood, like we are just family and we’ll always be connected. There’s no better feeling than going back home. And feeling that and knowing like, OK, we’ve mended everything, we’ve had great conversations and here you are. And it was like being at Christmas dinner last night, being at a family reunion. It was like all is well, we have all made-up.”
Nikki recently returned to the Nikki & Brie Show after taking a sabbatical in the wake of her divorce from Artem Chigvintsev earlier this year. The couple separated shortly after Chigvintsev was arrested on domestic violence charges stemming from an incident in August at the couple’s former home in Napa Valley. The charges against Chigvintsev were dropped the following month. The couple finalized a divorce settlement in November.
The full episode of the Nikki & Brie Show is available below.