Professional wrestler-turned-actor John Cena got married to his girlfriend Shay Shariatzadeh in a private ceremony in Florida. The wrestler-turned-actor had started dating Shay months after his split with fiance Nikki Bella, now a retired wrestler.
Various reports stated that Nikki and John separated after she grew close to her current fiance Artem Chigvintsev. Currently, Nikki and Artem are parents to a baby boy. Addressing the rumours, Nikki said that she was faithful to her then-fiance John Cena and did not have any feelings for Artem when she joined ‘Dancing with the Stars’ back in 2017.
Nikki spoke about it in a recent episode of the podcast The Bellas, hosted along with her sister Brie Bella. Lisa Vanderpump was the guest on the show, who asked Nikki if she developed feeling for Artem while performing on the show. Nikki responded saying, “That’s the crazy thing being with him [Artem] now, is there was none of those feelings at all.”
Finding the statement hard to believe, Lisa laughed and said, “You cannot tell me that when you were dancing with him!” Nikki then went on to say it was the first time she was ‘completely vulnerable’ with a man. Describing herself as ‘scared, nervous and out of her comfort zone’, Nikki said the new experience led to them developing an emotional bond.
Bella also shared that it was ‘weird’ to dance with another man when she was engaged to John Cena for six years. While Nikki appeared on the show in 2017, she called off her engagement with John Cena in 2018. She confessed taking some time to be ready to date again, after which she approached Artem and they fell in love.