Nikki Bella Reflects on 'Traumatizing' John Cena Breakup and Finding Love With Artem Chigvintsev (Exclusive)

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Nikki and Brie Bella are going way back to the beginning, opening up like never before about their childhood with a drug-addicted father, Nikki's sexual assault, and their road to making the WWE a better place for women. «You can’t do life alone,» Brie tells ET in a new interview. «I think that’s what made Nikki and I succeed quick and the way we have, is because this has been a tag team since the womb.

And through all the pain and all the suffering, we always had each other to just kind of uplift.»The Bella Twins are the subject of a new series, airing July 24 on A&E, chronicling their rise to stardom and featuring never-before-told stories straight from inside the ring. «Even though Brie and I have always been such open books,» Nikki says, «we just have never really told our story and journey of inside the ring to where we got to today.»The doc will highlight the direct role a teenage Nikki played in her parents' divorce and, later, delve into her painful decision to call off her own engagement to John Cena before finding love with current fiance, Artem Chigvintsev.Nikki says that at 15 years old, she gave her mother an ultimatum: leave her father or she wouldn't come home.«I felt like as a young girl, I was already a woman and I knew what my mom deserved and it wasn't the marriage she was in,» Nikki recalls, acknowledging that the fallout brought her father into a «deeper, darker place» which ultimately led to his «rebirth.» «I always want to teach people that even though we can have these upbringings where our parents do drugs or something they shouldn't do,» she notes, «it can always come around in our hearts.