Nikki Bella and John Cena still cared deeply about one another when they went their separate ways. “You almost wish it was bad, because it’s so much easier to walk away,” Bella told Entertainment Tonight on July 20. “It’s so much harder to walk away when it’s loving.” Even if her heart was urging her to stay, the wrestler knows it was the right decision. “Sometimes we meet amazing people, but we’re just meant to live a different life. … I just got this feeling so deep in my gut of, like, ‘I need to walk away,'” she added.
That’s not to say she took the decision lightly. “No one thought I would, but it was hitting me so hard. Even though it’s painful and even traumatizing, I just knew it was right,” Bella said. Bella previously revealed she and Cena broke up because she wanted to experience parenthood and he didn’t. “We did have such an incredible relationship. It was just two people that wanted two different lives,” she said on the “Better Together with Maria Menounos” podcast in 2021.
Cena was willing to reverse his vasectomy to make Bella happy, but that’s not what she wanted for him. “I don’t want to force someone to change,” she said. Bella welcomed a son with fiancé Artem Chigvintsev in July 2020. Cena, who just celebrated his wedding to Shay Shariatzadeh for a second time, remains childless.
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