Nikki Garcia is in her moving-on period!
The previous WWE star — who rose to fame underneath the stage title Nikki Bella — returned to the place it began on Monday, January 6, to rejoice the premiere of WWE’s Monday Night time Uncooked on Netflix.
Garcia, 41, joined present and former WWE stars on the pink carpet on the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, in her first main pink carpet look since settling her divorce from ballroom dancer Artem Chigvintsev in November.
The WWE Corridor of Famer rocked a pink leather-based strapless corset and matching pants for Monday’s event.
Nikki Garcia and Artem Chigvintsev began relationship following her damaged engagement to ex John Cena — however their romance led to September 2024. Practically seven months after Garcia, who as soon as wrestled underneath the title Nikki Bella, and Cena cut up for good in July 2018, Us Weekly confirmed that she and the Dancing With the Stars […]
Garcia’s pink carpet return comes two years after she and sister Brie Garcia ended their affiliation with WWE and two months after she and Chigvintsev — who share son Matteo, 4 — divorced final 12 months amid a home violence dispute. “Nikki and Artem have settled their divorce and won’t be going to courtroom,” Garcia’s rep stated in a press release to Us Weekly on the time. “Each events determined to drop the home violence restraining orders in opposition to one another in an effort to maneuver on with their lives and successfully coparent their son.”
The assertion continued: “Nikki’s primary precedence has at all times been her son and privateness on the matter. She is grateful for the entire love and assist she has obtained throughout this tough time.”
Chigvintsev, 42, was arrested in August following an alleged altercation with Garcia in Napa, California. On the time, Us confirmed that the dancer was arrested for home battery and booked on a felony home violence cost. He was launched on bail the identical day. (In September, prosecutors declined to cost him.)
One week after information broke of his arrest, Chigvintsev and Garcia each filed for divorce.
In December, Garcia addressed her separation from Chigvintsev for the primary time on an episode of her and sister Brie’s “The Nikki & Brie Present” podcast.
“I’ve been heartbroken. You dream of getting this household and you’ve got this unbelievable love, and it simply goes the opposite means. You go from having an excellent love story to having a horrible one,” she stated.
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On a later episode of the podcast, Garcia stated that she hasn’t had “a day with out tears” since settling her divorce from Chigvintsev. “I simply know that conditions like this, divorce, no matter it could be, it takes a bit of you,” she stated. “It takes a bit of your coronary heart that can by no means develop again or by no means get replaced, but it surely’s, ‘How will we make that piece of you that’s gone sturdy?’”
Garcia and Chigvintsev started relationship in 2019 after competing collectively on season 25 of Dancing With the Stars in 2017. The pair welcomed their son, Matteo, in 2020 and went on to tie the knot in 2022.
