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Nikki Bella Breaks Silence on Artem Chigvintsev Divorce, 'I'm Heartbroken' | TMZ Live
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Nikki Bella is finally opening up about her messy split from Artem Chigvintsev ... calling it "really tough" just 2 weeks after they settled their divorce.
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Well, Nikki Bella is speaking out now about the divorce from Artem, from Dancing With
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the Stars.
00:07
And I guess it makes sense that she's speaking out now that they have settled everything.
00:13
You wouldn't expect her to say much about it beforehand.
00:16
But as we told you last week, they have reached a settlement.
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And she got back on-
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And dropped the restraining order.
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Yes.
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And the restraining order was dropped.
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And clearly it seemed like they were doing this, I think, primarily for the sake of their
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son Mateo.
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But now that it is done, Nikki was on her podcast with her sister and had this to say
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about the divorce.
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What's interesting is I hear some subtle digs here, perhaps, and I'm sure there's language
00:42
in the divorce.
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I hear a few as well.
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But they can't say things about each other.
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What I-
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So she's careful.
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And what I find really interesting, which I want to talk about after we hear it, it
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feels like this was a sudden turn, that this wasn't something that was building.
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I'm not sure of that.
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But here's what she has to say.
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Listen to how it went from wonderful to awful.
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It's been tough.
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It's been really tough.
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I've been heartbroken, sad.
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Yeah, you know, you dream of having this family and you have this incredible love and it just
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goes the other way.
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And you go from having a great love story to having a terrible one.
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And never saw any of it coming, you know, as far as like what the ending would be.
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So it's just been, it's been a struggle.
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I just, just so shocked.
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I was just, I've been so shocked, like beyond words, and it's been heartbreaking.
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And I just, you know, it just, you lose your appetite, you cry a lot.
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And then I also, you know, stepped up and made sure everything was okay for Mateo.
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And so it's just been, I don't even know what other words to use.
02:01
She also said something really interesting.
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She said she didn't want another failed public relationship.
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Remember, she dated John Cena on and off for so many years.
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And you know, when they broke up, it was a really big deal.
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And she didn't want that all over again, but said that she's open to like new beginnings.
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And you know, she has deleted all the photos on her social media and kind of said, like,
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you know, this is a fresh start for her and she's looking forward to it.
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I heard her doing a dance there.
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And I mean, that is a pun, a Dancing with the Stars pun.
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But yeah, she's very careful not to pointedly say anything about him.
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But you're right.
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Never saw any of it coming.
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Never saw it coming.
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It was wonderful.
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And then suddenly it's not.
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But then on the other hand, she said she should have gotten out of it long ago.
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That feels like it was building.
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So there are different messages in this.
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But you can tell.
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I mean, this really took its toll on her.
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Different messages.
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But you know, her and Artem have such different stories as to what occurred that day.
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And even though Artem was arrested, you know, this happened back in August, he was arrested
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for domestic violence.
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Officers actually chose not to file criminal charges, not necessarily because they don't
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think he did it, but because they felt, you know, their team couldn't prove beyond a reasonable
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doubt that he did these alleged, you know, things that Nikki had claimed.
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Well, it was more than that.
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It was actually that the argument was mutual combat because she had thrown baby shoes at
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him.
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And so apparently it was a combination of the injury and the fact that they were both
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kind of going at it.
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And I'm not saying who was right and who was wrong, but that's where it's hard to convince
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a jury like that.
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But whatever it is, you just hear that this devastated her.
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Hi, my name is Tasia from Orange, New Jersey.
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I agree.
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I think that whatever happened between Nikki and her now ex-husband, it took a lot on her
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to speak out.
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And I think that now she's just starting her healing journey.
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And her number one priority is making sure she's there for her son.
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Yeah, I felt like that was also the part about she stepped up.
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I had to step up, meaning someone else wasn't.
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She's not naming names.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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