Nikki Bella has always been open about her feelings. However, before WrestleMania 42, she had to do something that didn’t feel right to her. The WWE Hall of Famer recently shared how tough it was to hide her injury.
Nikki was supposed to team up with her sister, Brie Bella, at WrestleMania. But because of her ankle injury a few weeks before, she couldn’t compete. Nevertheless, WWE chose to keep it a secret and act like she would be part of the match.
Nikki Bella says it was difficult to keep her WrestleMania injury secret
Speaking on the Nikki & Brie Show, Nikki admitted this was very hard for her. She said not being able to appear on TV or tell fans the truth felt like betrayal. She values being real with fans, so keeping quiet made her feel like she was “lying.”
“So when they (WWE) wanted me to hide this, but like also not go to TV or like not do things and just not talk about it, I was like,’This is really hard for me,’ because I don’t like to be a liar. And so, I made it very apparent to everyone like, ‘I’m having a very hard time.’ Now, if anyone knows, when you’re in surgery and all of a sudden I’m someone who’s a very busy person to being like laying on my bed with my leg up, having like being lost in my thoughts, like you can only binge so many shows. Then I’m like, ‘I need a break from everything and just be in my thoughts.’ But then I didn’t like being in my thoughts. Because then I’m like, ‘I’m lying to the world,’ right?” Nikki said.
She also felt bad knowing fans were coming to Las Vegas expecting to see her wrestle, while she already knew she wouldn’t be able to.
“People are spending money to get to Vegas because they think they’re going to see Brie and I and they’re not. I was fighting emotions, which I was very honest about. And then sometimes they make you feel like she’s such a woman, right? When you’re like, I get this is business, but let me just tell you the emotional part about it because I love my Bella Army. And I was battling that whole week. I don’t like lying because I knew at this point it was going to be Paige and Brie and I knew I wasn’t competing. But I knew everyone on, they were playing up like I was going to be fine,” Nikki added.
However, Nikki still found a way to be part of WrestleMania 42.
During the Women’s Tag Team Championship match, she appeared with Brie with a crutch. Paige took her place in the match, and Nikki helped both Brie and Paige to pick up the win.
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