John Cena and Nikki Bella: A Timeline of Their Relationship
usmagazine.comFrom their first date to their drawn-out split in 2018, Us Weekly is revisiting John Cena and Nikki Bella’s love story.After years of friendship, the two wrestlers first sparked a romantic connection in 2012.
The pair’s relationship continued to heat up as Cena popped the question in April 2017. However, less than one year later, the pair split over different ideas about the future.“Overall, we did have such an incredible relationship, it was just two people that wanted two different lives,” Bella said on Maria Menounos’ “Better Together” podcast in May 2020. “We were trying so hard to make it one.
Even in the end when he was willing to give me kids, I could just tell, it’s not what he wanted. And that’s really, like, you know, what pushed me in the end.”She added at the time: “If I’m going to force someone to be a father … what if he looks at you down the road and just regrets everything, and then you have this child and you’ve built this life.
Is that what you want? And I remember thinking: It’s not what I want.”The Total Bellas alum has since moved on with Artem Chigvinstev, whom she competed with on Dancing With the Stars season 25.
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