Nikki Bella is forced to focus on work as the All-Female Royal Rumble approaches on the June 10 episode of ‘Total Bellas,’ but she has a hard time amidst her drama with John Cena. Here’s our recap!
On this week’s episode of Total Bellas, it’s time for Nikki Bella to focus on work after calling off her wedding to John Cena. She and Brie Bella are preparing to compete in the first-ever All-Female Royal Rumble, and it’s a comeback in the ring for both of them. The girls head back to Tampa to train, and Nikki visits her home with John for the first time since their breakup. She’s surrounded by memories, and even finds a surprise card and bouquet of flowers from John inside.
She’s forced to put the drama out of her mind, though, as a week of intense training begins. Brie is worried that she won’t be the same wrestler now that she’s a mom, and fears that the fans won’t support her anymore. Meanwhile, Nikki is struggling with pretending everything’s okay between her and John in public, while things have fallen apart behind-the-scenes. Plus, her doctor is hesitant about her competing in the Royal Rumble match after her neck surgery.
Nikki catches a glimpse of John backstage at the event, and has a hard time knowing she can’t go to him for advice before the nerve-wracking match. The rest of her family members are also left bummed out when John doesn’t come by to say hi to them.
Despite everything going on in her personal life, Nikki is thrilled by the adrenaline rush she gets in the ring, especially after the crowd’s excited reaction to her appearance. Brie is even more nervous to get back in there, but she does so confidently and kills it. When Nikki and Brie both make the final three, Nikki eliminates her sister, and then finishes in 2nd place to Asuka.
Nikki Bella won’t be walking down the aisle anytime soon.
On this week’s Total Bellas, Nikki and John Cena have a tear-jerking conversation that just may be the end of our favorite WWE couple.
“For some reason, since Birdie’s been born and I’ve spent a lot of time with Birdie, it’s just brought up these feelings of really wanting to be a mom and I thought I could really sacrifice that and I just can’t,” Nikki said with tears in her eyes.
“I understand,” John responded. “It’s not choosing between having a child and having me, it’s wanting to have both.”
Though he was upset, John accepted that his resistance to becoming a father came with consequences like these.
“I’m not sure we should go through with this,” John insisted. “Because for us to do it and then later on undo it, kinda goes against the principal of everything.”
While Nikki couldn’t imagine herself without a baby, she also couldn’t imagine herself without John. “I just can’t imagine not getting married and spending the rest of our lives together,” Nikki confessed.
Those thoughts of a fairy tale life together made her reluctant to let him go.
“So we really want to call this off? Is that the only way?” Nikki asked. “Yeah,” a disappointed John said. “And I think you know it too. I’m sorry, Nicole.”
Their tearful goodbye proved to be hard on the entire family. After saying goodbye to John, Nikki’s mom Kathy came to her daughter’s side and it was clear she was devastated by the news.
“I feel so sad and in the same respect so very proud of Nicole for being so open and honest with John,” Kathy admitted. “Nicole has spent her entire life pleasing people and protecting people that for her to sit there and go, ‘What do I truly want? And is this going to make me lose the person I love that I know I should be with?’ So very mature.”
“I don’t want to see anyone hurt, I just wanted to be a mother to both of them and fix it,” she added.
Nikki opened up about the split to her sister Brie Bella and much like their mother, the breakup hit her hard.
“I just don’t want him to be lonely. And I don’t want him to regret not being a dad,” an emotional Brie said. “And that’s what makes me sad ’cause John feels like a brother and I hate thinking in my head that he’s gonna be alone.”
While the new mom felt for her sister, she understood and applauded her desire to experience motherhood firsthand.
“You and I are such hard workers and there’s times there’s been zero payoff, but when you have a baby, even if Birdie wakes me up five times in one night, the way she holds me, the way she smells, it’s like, you don’t care,” Brie admitted. “I want you to feel that.”
The couple worked hard to stay away from each other, but with the news of their breakup still a secret, Nikki felt forced to keep up appearances.
“At this point I feel like I’m living in a fake life,” Nikki confessed to the camera. “And I have to act like I’m still with John, but I’m not with John and I’m just dying inside.”
One thing Nikki wasn’t faking were her feelings for John. The Bella twin ran into her ex for the first time since their split backstage at Raw 25 and it’s clear her emotions are just as raw as the event by the same name.
“I’m supposed to stay away from you,” John admitted. “It’s taking every fiber of my being not to text or call you. I’m just trying to do the right thing.”
“I miss you so much,” John told Nikki. “I miss you too,” Nikki replied.
On the May 27 episode of ‘Total Bellas,’ Nikki Bella gets major anxiety while planning her wedding to John Cena. But how does he react to her cold feet? Here’s our recap!
Episode two of Total Bellas kicks off with exciting news for Nikki Bella — she’s been cleared by the WWE to wrestle again!. However, in her personal life, Nikki is still dealing with the struggle of wanting kids, but knowing her fiancee, John Cena, does not want to be a dad. The wedding planning is going full steam ahead, though, which sparks a discussion about honesty in Nikki and John’s relationship. First, Nikki tells John’s best friend, Rob, that he’s going to be the Best Man in the wedding…without filling John in first. Then, she admits to John that her dream wedding would take place in Napa Valley, even though she previously agreed to tying the knot in his Massachusetts hometown. John is on-board with Rob being his Best Man and having a wedding in Napa, but he’s concerned about the fact that Nikki has not been truthful with him about these things.
The discussion is tabled when family members arrive ahead of the pair’s engagement party. It turns out, someone else has news to share — Nikki and Brie’s brother, JJ’s, wife, Lauren, is pregnant! She decides to only confide in Brie about the news, though, since she wants the weekend to be all about Nikki and John. Luckily, there’s another opportunity for all eyes to be on the bride-to-be…when she goes wedding dress shopping! However, in her confessional, Nikki admits she’s not as excited about the milestone experience as she should be.
The engagement party brings Nikki even more anxiety, but she promises John that she’ll stop worrying about what might go wrong and focus on enjoying herself. He’s clearly concerned about her pre-wedding jitters, though, and lets her know that if she wants to back out of the wedding, that’s fine with him…she just needs to let him know. She’s not ready for that just yet, but is admittedly unable to get herself excited about the party. When the bash begins, John is laughing and hugging everyone, having a great time. However, Nikki confesses that she finds she’s forcing herself to smile and be happy about the celebration, but she can’t pinpoint why.
Later, Brie urges Lauren to blurt out that she and JJ are expecting…right in the middle of Nikki and John’s big party. As if Nikki wasn’t already stressed and upset enough, she now has to be reminded that yet another person around her is pregnant, while she’ll never have kids herself. It’s so overwhelming, that Nikki has to step away from the party for a minute, and she admits that she doesn’t want to go through life without having a baby.
After the party, John knows there’s something bothering his fiancee. She brushes it off, but eventually, knows she can’t hold it in any longer — during a trip to Napa, Nikki finally comes clean about her feelings. Through tears, she reveals why she’s seemed so distant lately: Having a niece has made her want kids more than ever, and she just doesn’t know if she won’t regret sacrificing that. John is understanding about the situation, but explains that he’s not surprised — because he told her so many times that this would happen. The episode ends with him suggesting they call off the wedding, and we’ll have to wait until next week to see what happens next…
This season finale was jam-packed with memorable moments for both Total Divas and Total Bellas fans. It is also very fitting that all of the most special moments of the season took place on or around the WWE’s biggest night of the year, WrestleMania.
There was some doubt as to whether or not WWE superstar, Nikki Bella would make it to the 2017 WrestleMania all. After Nikki Bella reinjured her rehabilitated broken neck, Nikki’s doctor was extremely concerned that his patient would cause further injury to herself by participating in the match. In fact, he stated that this WrestleMania should be the last time that Nikki performed in a wrestling ring.
So, Nikki became even more determined that this WrestleMania match should be her best one yet. Armed with strict instructions from the doctor to keep the dangerous moves to a minimum, and with the entire Bella clan, except her sister Brie by her side, Nikki headed for WrestleMania.
Meanwhile, Nikki’s sister, Brie, was too close to her due date to be in Orlando for the big event. So, she had to be content with hosting her own WrestleMania at home with her nana and sister-in-law Lauren as well as her brand-new niece, Vivian. I think that Brie was slightly sad to miss her twin’s big moment, but understood that travel was not a good idea at this stage of pregnancy. Further, I think that Brie was even more sad because of being far away from her husband, WWE Superstar, Daniel Bryan, who had to be in Orlando to perform his duties as Smackdown Live General Manager.
Daniel seemed to be just as upset as Brie about being away, because he called to check on his wife from the road. Obviously, Daniel was concerned about his wife’s rapidly approaching due date and the possibility of missing the birth of his first child, which makes him already an excellent father, in my opinion.
Nikki, Bryan, and the rest of the WWE locker room had plenty to do before WrestleMania even began. They needed to be present for fan meet and greets and autograph signing as well as press at WrestleMania All Access. One of the main questions that the press asked Nikki and John was how they felt about fans placing bets on whether or not John was going to propose to Nikki at WrestleMania. Nikki told her friends that she didn’t believe so because she felt that John was a private person, and would rather not propose in front of the WrestleMania crowd.
However, she was in for the surprise of her life when after defeating the Miz and his wife, Maryse, John proposed to Nikki. The proposal came as a complete surprise to everyone, including Nikki’s family and John’s who attended their first WrestleMania this year. Also, the locker room had no idea about John’s proposal plans. So, the moment was spectacular for everyone involved. Five weeks later another spectacular event took place in the Bella family.
It is no surprise to Total Bellas fans that Brie Bella and her husband, Daniel Bryan wanted as natural a birth as possible because of how committed they are to the environment and clean and healthy living. However, it seemed that their daughter, Birdie Joe, had other plans.
After Brie was a week late in delivering a baby, her doctor decided that she needed to be induced. After 21 hours of labor, Brie finally gave birth to her daughter via c-section. Mom and baby both came through it all completely healthy, who knows, maybe in about eighteen years you will see another woman wrestler enter the ring, maybe under the name B.J. Bryan?
Will Nikki Bella fight again?
On this week’s episode of Total Bellas, Nikki is still dealing with the aftermath of injuring her neck again. “I’m in a lot of pain,” Nikki revealed. “You know in the end, I kept going back and forth if I was going to be done at Mania, so I feel like it’s a sign.”
Nikki has to get checked out before getting official word about wrestling at WrestleMania, and as it turns out, she’s given the greenlight. Of course, with a few promises that she’ll stay safe and avoid any moves that might further damage her neck.
Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan are busy taking care of their own futures and have to make a decision about where to give birth. Brie has her heart set on a home birth but her family warns her that may not be the safest option for her health.
“All it is, is the emergency part,” J.J. Garcia shares after hearing Brie’s birthing plan. “We just want your safety and for you to be healthy and to have a healthy child. We don’t want to lose you or Birdie.” Looks like they still have a lot to think about.
Even though J.J. has been having some marital issues of his own, recently things have been smooth sailing for him and Lauren Garcia and he wants to celebrate by renewing their vows. J.J. puts together a beautiful ceremony for his wife and blows everyone’s expectations out of the water. cue the tears!
Watch the season finale of Total Bellas Wednesday at 9 p.m., only on E!
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