1
00:00:06,990 --> 00:00:09,750
The one thing my sisters always did is
they loved to challenge.

2
00:00:10,630 --> 00:00:14,750
They walked into a man's world and
basically gave all the men the middle

3
00:00:14,750 --> 00:00:15,750
that they were here.

4
00:00:16,630 --> 00:00:20,270
You better make sure you do it better
than a man. I was like, oh, that's all

5
00:00:20,270 --> 00:00:21,270
had to say to me.

6
00:00:21,890 --> 00:00:22,990
Twins are strange.

7
00:00:24,150 --> 00:00:25,970
Trouble may come looking for Bree.

8
00:00:26,590 --> 00:00:28,330
Nikki goes looking for trouble.

9
00:00:28,690 --> 00:00:33,850
I found them to be the greatest
athletes, performers, well -rounded,

10
00:00:33,850 --> 00:00:35,350
working, most compassionate.

11
00:00:36,090 --> 00:00:39,110
who had to command an audience of 30
,000 people.

12
00:00:39,470 --> 00:00:45,110
What happened to Bella Twins, a Hall of
Famer? Brie Bella in full -blown Brie

13
00:00:45,110 --> 00:00:49,630
mode. Brie is a knife. She is a
sharpened blade.

14
00:00:49,950 --> 00:00:56,950
Nikki is not afraid of conflict. She
shows it in

15
00:00:56,950 --> 00:00:59,970
her work. She shows it in the way she
loves.

16
00:01:00,190 --> 00:01:01,750
She shows it in the way she dances.

17
00:01:01,970 --> 00:01:03,630
She shows it in everything.

18
00:01:04,950 --> 00:01:07,870
Two of the most famous WWE superstars in
history.

19
00:01:08,110 --> 00:01:09,810
Bree is the new Divas champion.

20
00:01:10,250 --> 00:01:12,490
The gloves were off. There was no
turning back.

21
00:01:12,890 --> 00:01:16,950
Nikki Bella is the longest reigning
Divas champion in history.

22
00:01:17,350 --> 00:01:18,930
We've been a tag team since the womb.

23
00:01:20,470 --> 00:01:22,130
Who doesn't want to be a Bella?

24
00:01:22,370 --> 00:01:26,010
Every time you turn around, I would say
something online about them.

25
00:01:26,350 --> 00:01:27,970
It's the Bellas. Do you know the Bellas?
Of course.

26
00:01:28,190 --> 00:01:30,410
This is bigger than I think we all could
have ever imagined.

27
00:01:31,070 --> 00:01:34,030
Reality TV stars Brie and Nikki Bella.

28
00:01:34,590 --> 00:01:38,470
Nearly 35 million followers across their
social media platforms.

29
00:01:38,950 --> 00:01:45,410
Muscle and fitness covers. From your
show, to your podcast, to your beauty

30
00:01:45,550 --> 00:01:48,790
to your sportswear line, to your wine
line, to your YouTube channel.

31
00:01:50,990 --> 00:01:53,270
We are part of WWE history.

32
00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,280
You know, home life wasn't easy growing
up.

33
00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:16,900
My parents were forced to be parents at
19 years old. It was kids raising kids.

34
00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:22,640
Their father and I came from two
different worlds, and those worlds

35
00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:28,280
My dad was a pistol. I always felt like
I was walking on eggshells. And my dad

36
00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,760
was a drug user, and he would get angry
at a drop of a hat, and he would black

37
00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:33,960
out, and...

38
00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,300
That was really hard to live with.

39
00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:43,860
There was a lot of partying and anger
and discipline was above

40
00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:45,060
what discipline should be.

41
00:02:45,980 --> 00:02:50,320
Bree and I were raised that when there's
conflict, you settle it in an

42
00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,320
aggressive way.

43
00:02:51,620 --> 00:02:53,860
We were taught to fight at a very young
age.

44
00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:58,520
We were told that, no, we yell at each
other because that's how we love each

45
00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,520
other.

46
00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000
It was wild.

47
00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,260
It was a wild upbringing.

48
00:03:04,510 --> 00:03:05,810
Everything was just more amplified.

49
00:03:06,330 --> 00:03:12,010
We sort of almost had training, in a
way, of standing up to people who either

50
00:03:12,010 --> 00:03:16,730
lose their fuse or are scary or try to
intimidate you. We sort of knew how to

51
00:03:16,730 --> 00:03:21,110
handle that situation because of our
household situation with my father.

52
00:03:22,050 --> 00:03:24,950
But I have to say, I had a lot of happy
moments.

53
00:03:25,690 --> 00:03:27,910
My parents were both athletes growing
up.

54
00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,560
And they were obsessed with us kids
being athletes. And I think the one

55
00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,300
too, is at a young age, my parents
noticed that all three of us kids had

56
00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:38,720
natural athletic ability.

57
00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:41,620
So they figured we got to push them that
way.

58
00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,860
Soccer came into my life at the perfect
time.

59
00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:57,120
I was in fourth grade, and soccer
brought a lot of structure that I didn't

60
00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,089
at home.

61
00:03:58,090 --> 00:04:02,550
I really loved that feeling of having
all these parents around, having this

62
00:04:02,550 --> 00:04:07,970
coach who was like a father, having
these other sisters around that I could

63
00:04:07,970 --> 00:04:13,110
to or I could come to or laugh with. I
needed their strength to get through

64
00:04:13,110 --> 00:04:15,410
I was going through behind closed doors
at my home.

65
00:04:15,990 --> 00:04:20,430
One thing that my sister and I learned
with our soccer team is being a team

66
00:04:20,430 --> 00:04:23,030
player, pretty much having a tag
partner.

67
00:04:23,770 --> 00:04:28,710
There's 11 of us on the field. And if
you're in business for yourself, you are

68
00:04:28,710 --> 00:04:30,450
going to lose the game for your team.

69
00:04:30,810 --> 00:04:35,070
It really taught us that we don't have
to fight with other women for a spot.

70
00:04:35,230 --> 00:04:40,230
Instead, you can find unity and make
magic happen for so many women.

71
00:04:43,790 --> 00:04:45,930
Sophomore through senior year was
actually very tough.

72
00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:49,890
But 15 is when my world really started
to fall apart.

73
00:04:50,270 --> 00:04:52,390
And I just, like, lost myself.

74
00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,780
I wanted to rebel because I didn't
understand what I was going through

75
00:04:58,780 --> 00:05:00,840
and emotionally.

76
00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,600
At that age, I hadn't done anything
sexually, like at all.

77
00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,460
I mean, I kissed a boy.

78
00:05:08,660 --> 00:05:15,520
So the first time that I was raised in
high school, everything was

79
00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,920
new and was taken from me. Like my
virginity was taken from me. My

80
00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:21,920
taken from me.

81
00:05:24,590 --> 00:05:27,730
And the worst part was, like, I blamed
myself.

82
00:05:29,030 --> 00:05:33,170
I blamed myself for going to a Fourth of
July party and then having drinks and

83
00:05:33,170 --> 00:05:40,070
passing out. And you think you can
always, like, get past

84
00:05:40,070 --> 00:05:41,350
it, but you can't. It's hard.

85
00:05:42,590 --> 00:05:47,690
And I think the one regret I have and
the one thing I want people to learn is,

86
00:05:47,750 --> 00:05:49,810
like, you have to, like, talk to people.

87
00:05:50,770 --> 00:05:51,910
I don't want to tell anyone.

88
00:05:52,570 --> 00:05:53,570
Except my sister.

89
00:05:54,470 --> 00:05:58,730
I took the shame with that. And I locked
it away. And that changed who I was.

90
00:05:59,470 --> 00:06:01,770
That next day, I changed.

91
00:06:03,150 --> 00:06:04,930
I had no idea.

92
00:06:05,610 --> 00:06:12,450
She was good at making me think
everything was okay. So it was hard to

93
00:06:12,450 --> 00:06:18,570
find out years later that she had been
sexually assaulted. Not once, but twice.

94
00:06:20,110 --> 00:06:21,270
Two years later.

95
00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:25,400
I get into another bad situation that
didn't feel right.

96
00:06:25,980 --> 00:06:27,140
And I still went.

97
00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:33,580
And next thing you know, being drugged
and hit in the head and

98
00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:39,560
raped. And it was like after those two
situations,

99
00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,880
I just was done.

100
00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:47,800
And instead of lifting myself up, I just
went into a deep depression for a few

101
00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:53,540
years. And then it took finally one day
where I just knew I wanted to survive

102
00:06:53,540 --> 00:06:58,340
that all. I think it took just looking
at myself in the mirror one day and just

103
00:06:58,340 --> 00:06:59,580
being like, you're better than this.

104
00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:02,680
Like, let's start to build ourself up.

105
00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:03,920
Let's survive.

106
00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:17,400
I'll never forget this Christmas.

107
00:07:18,220 --> 00:07:21,340
My dad was going on a soul -searching
trip.

108
00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:28,240
And shortly after he left, my mom got a
phone call that my dad was on his way to

109
00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,540
go on a cruise with this woman, the team
mom of my brother's baseball team. And

110
00:07:33,540 --> 00:07:35,080
my mom was devastated.

111
00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:40,520
And I just remember thinking, like, she
deserves so much better.

112
00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,100
And I'm not going to let her be in this
situation anymore.

113
00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,240
My dad and I get into a massive fight
that turns physical, and I literally

114
00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,000
walked out of the house. I might have
been barefooted. I had nothing.

115
00:07:54,860 --> 00:07:58,720
And Bree and I walked out that front
door, and I didn't even look back.

116
00:08:00,140 --> 00:08:05,900
I was on the run for a week, and I
actually talked to my school principal

117
00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:11,340
before I went home because I was
refusing to go home, and I just said I

118
00:08:11,340 --> 00:08:12,500
go home if my dad's there.

119
00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:18,740
Now, I'll tell you one thing. My dad has
one of the biggest hearts ever, but he

120
00:08:18,740 --> 00:08:20,700
just would lose his fuse pretty quick.

121
00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,260
It was a building moment, I think, for
Nicole to really put her foot down, not

122
00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:29,240
just like, hey, listen, I know you're my
parents, but I'm not coming back until

123
00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,240
that house is safe or that she felt it
was safe.

124
00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,720
So the cops had to get involved, and my
dad was thrown out of my house.

125
00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:42,980
It was very awkward for my mom in the
beginning because I pretty much, in the

126
00:08:42,980 --> 00:08:45,180
end, forced the decision on her.

127
00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,480
I needed him to be gone.

128
00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:07,520
When finally my parents figured out that
they couldn't be together, they had to

129
00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:08,359
get a divorce.

130
00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:13,020
and all of a sudden our house became
happier, I started to be like, well,

131
00:09:13,020 --> 00:09:14,880
makes me happy? Because it's not soccer.

132
00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:21,660
Like, I loved soccer, but I also loved
the art, the painting, music, and drama.

133
00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,260
I just felt like my life is changing
now. I'm 16.

134
00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,360
I'm driving. I'm feeling a little more
free. Like, I want to start living for

135
00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,600
then. And I started to.

136
00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:36,580
So I slowly started to pull out of
soccer.

137
00:09:38,190 --> 00:09:41,430
And then I meet Bear, and I fall in
love.

138
00:09:42,170 --> 00:09:45,250
He was this just really vibrant artist.

139
00:09:46,090 --> 00:09:50,890
I'd go to Bear's house, and he'd be
writing music, and he'd be painting, and

140
00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:56,110
would paint me a lot. And I was just
like, am I, like, in a movie?

141
00:09:56,930 --> 00:10:02,990
Bear brought to me everything I loved,
which was the art, music, and he became

142
00:10:02,990 --> 00:10:05,350
my everyday everything.

143
00:10:06,709 --> 00:10:12,730
I finally felt purpose, and I finally
felt this sense of direction where I

144
00:10:12,730 --> 00:10:13,730
wanted my life to go.

145
00:10:19,430 --> 00:10:20,850
Soccer was my life.

146
00:10:21,350 --> 00:10:25,310
Eleven years, I played competitive ball,
and I loved what I did. There was

147
00:10:25,310 --> 00:10:28,290
something about being on that field and
being a badass.

148
00:10:28,810 --> 00:10:32,070
There was so much on me, but I loved it.
I thrived on it.

149
00:10:32,590 --> 00:10:35,410
And I had the dreams of being on the
Women's World Cup team.

150
00:10:35,850 --> 00:10:40,430
Mia Hamm, Carla Overbeck, Brandi
Chastain, all those women were who I

151
00:10:40,430 --> 00:10:41,430
to growing up.

152
00:10:41,470 --> 00:10:44,730
I'm about to sign with Arizona State
University, and I have all these other

153
00:10:44,730 --> 00:10:46,250
offers from all over the country.

154
00:10:46,490 --> 00:10:50,130
I'm going to have a spot on the Arizona
Heat Wave, play in the Women's

155
00:10:50,130 --> 00:10:51,130
Professional League.

156
00:10:51,590 --> 00:10:56,350
I'm making my way up to see that dream
of being on the World Cup team one day.

157
00:10:56,370 --> 00:10:57,830
That's how I see it, right?

158
00:10:58,770 --> 00:11:00,750
Third place game for my high school
team.

159
00:11:01,450 --> 00:11:02,470
Striker gets breakaway.

160
00:11:02,830 --> 00:11:06,470
I go to slide tackle her, take the shot.
We hit innocent.

161
00:11:08,110 --> 00:11:09,830
And mine snaps right in half.

162
00:11:13,310 --> 00:11:17,270
And the break was just so bad. It was
like, sorry, we don't know how you're

163
00:11:17,270 --> 00:11:18,270
going to heal.

164
00:11:18,890 --> 00:11:21,030
Scholarships are off the table. We
couldn't afford college.

165
00:11:22,510 --> 00:11:26,910
Everything that I worked for for 11
years straight, what was going to get me

166
00:11:26,910 --> 00:11:33,530
of Arizona, out of my home, just... all
gone and

167
00:11:33,530 --> 00:11:36,090
it was just like everything crumbled

168
00:11:36,090 --> 00:11:42,170
january of my senior year

169
00:11:42,170 --> 00:11:47,910
my boyfriend bear was picking up a
friend and they were on their way to my

170
00:11:47,910 --> 00:11:54,530
and i was talking to him on the phone
excited to see him and 45 minutes later

171
00:11:54,530 --> 00:11:59,490
get a phone call that bear is dead he
was killed by a drunk driver

172
00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,180
And in that moment, my life had changed
forever.

173
00:12:05,540 --> 00:12:11,160
When that love was taken away, I

174
00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:17,900
just was on such a high in my life. And
I went to the lowest low.

175
00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:25,260
And even more so than I dealt with my
dad because the stuff I

176
00:12:25,260 --> 00:12:27,500
dealt with my dad, well, we...

177
00:12:27,710 --> 00:12:32,370
We made up. We could, like, deal. And
it's like, I'm still breathing. But,

178
00:12:32,430 --> 00:12:38,970
to lose someone who means so much to you
and know you'll never, ever talk to

179
00:12:38,970 --> 00:12:44,110
them again, that, that was hard to
swallow.

180
00:12:45,130 --> 00:12:48,910
And that was hard for me to think, like,
how do I get out of this?

181
00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:51,690
And that's when I knew I had to go.

182
00:12:52,330 --> 00:12:53,550
I had to get out of Arizona.

183
00:12:53,790 --> 00:12:56,210
But at that time, my sister and I knew
we needed each other.

184
00:12:57,310 --> 00:13:00,710
One night, this was like not even a week
after Bear died, I was bawling my eyes

185
00:13:00,710 --> 00:13:04,550
out. In her like cast, she crawled over
to me and cuddled me.

186
00:13:04,930 --> 00:13:08,930
And she's like, let's just get out of
here. That's all we wanted. We were

187
00:13:09,010 --> 00:13:10,010
let's go.

188
00:13:10,230 --> 00:13:11,230
And we did.

189
00:13:11,350 --> 00:13:12,350
We were out.

190
00:13:17,970 --> 00:13:19,450
We get to graduation day.

191
00:13:19,710 --> 00:13:23,550
Brie and I literally, I think it's the
next day, pack up our car and we're

192
00:13:23,610 --> 00:13:24,670
we're moving to San Diego.

193
00:13:27,140 --> 00:13:30,340
And, of course, when we get there, we're
like, okay, well, we need full -time

194
00:13:30,340 --> 00:13:36,100
work. So my sister and I were like,
where could we make really good money at

195
00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:36,919
years old?

196
00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,900
And we're like, Hooters!

197
00:13:42,490 --> 00:13:46,410
When Brie and I first walked into
Hooters, I was like, oh, gosh, Brie,

198
00:13:46,410 --> 00:13:49,650
are we going to tell the family? Like,
are we sure about this? I don't know

199
00:13:49,650 --> 00:13:50,650
about those outfits.

200
00:13:50,850 --> 00:13:54,670
Then when we, like, heard they got more
than minimum wage, they could walk out

201
00:13:54,670 --> 00:13:58,190
with $100 cash tips at night, we were
like, okay, we have to do this.

202
00:13:58,910 --> 00:14:01,770
You know, it takes a lot to be a
waitress and to walk up to strangers,

203
00:14:02,130 --> 00:14:06,890
especially in a Hooters atmosphere, and
demand attention, demand respect.

204
00:14:07,150 --> 00:14:08,350
And we were taught that.

205
00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,940
Feminine energy is the most powerful
energy you can ever use.

206
00:14:13,260 --> 00:14:14,260
Ever, ever, ever.

207
00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:17,220
Sometimes women are taught to hide our
feminine energy.

208
00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,280
We were taught not to use our voices,
let everyone else talk, be polite.

209
00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:24,680
Hooters taught me not to be polite, to
actually speak up.

210
00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,520
It really started to blossom me into
this young woman.

211
00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:31,640
I never thought in my life.

212
00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,080
That when I was working at Hooters for
two and a half years, that those

213
00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,660
pantyhose would come back and haunt me
because those were the same pantyhose

214
00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:40,900
that I wore for over 10 years in the
wrestling ring.

215
00:14:48,140 --> 00:14:52,060
We started to be like, okay, everyone at
home keeps asking, so what are you

216
00:14:52,060 --> 00:14:53,060
doing with your life?

217
00:14:54,140 --> 00:14:57,220
And we can't just keep saying, you know,
figuring it out.

218
00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,260
And I know Nicole really wanted to get
back into soccer.

219
00:15:02,050 --> 00:15:06,490
And I had the head coach of Grossmont
College soccer team call me and be like,

220
00:15:06,550 --> 00:15:10,730
look, I know what you've done in your
career, and if your shin's great, come

221
00:15:10,730 --> 00:15:11,669
play for us.

222
00:15:11,670 --> 00:15:14,070
And I was like, you know what, I'm going
to go back and still see if I got it.

223
00:15:14,730 --> 00:15:18,550
And then I got back on that soccer
field, and we made magic happen. We had

224
00:15:18,550 --> 00:15:19,550
incredible season.

225
00:15:19,770 --> 00:15:20,770
We were champions.

226
00:15:22,090 --> 00:15:26,630
I had my head coach call me saying,
like, Italy's starting to thrive. You're

227
00:15:26,630 --> 00:15:27,630
half Italian.

228
00:15:27,730 --> 00:15:29,370
Why don't you go play pro ball in Italy?

229
00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,200
And I was like, you know what? This is,
like, what I need. Like, this is the

230
00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,200
change I need.

231
00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:42,060
And for myself, I really didn't know. I
was kind of waiting for a sign. I was

232
00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:43,060
waiting for something.

233
00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,140
And that's when I saw it.

234
00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:51,540
It's fast. A quarter of a million
dollars. WWE Divas. Head to WWE .com for

235
00:15:51,540 --> 00:15:52,519
the details.

236
00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,080
And I thought to myself, who?

237
00:15:55,020 --> 00:15:56,580
Wrestling. Well.

238
00:15:57,130 --> 00:16:00,370
I feel like I've wrestled my sister my
whole life. I know about fighting.

239
00:16:00,990 --> 00:16:05,330
And if it's dealing with athletics, all
I've ever been told my whole life is

240
00:16:05,330 --> 00:16:07,070
that I have a natural athletic ability.

241
00:16:07,770 --> 00:16:10,870
But at the same time, this is
entertainment.

242
00:16:12,270 --> 00:16:13,270
It clicked.

243
00:16:15,350 --> 00:16:17,930
I actually went to the audition first by
myself.

244
00:16:18,390 --> 00:16:19,670
Tell me your name, please.

245
00:16:20,050 --> 00:16:21,230
It's Brianna Cohen.

246
00:16:21,790 --> 00:16:25,650
Brianna. And Brianna, you have an
identical twin. I do. We're actually

247
00:16:25,650 --> 00:16:26,650
the Garcia twins.

248
00:16:26,780 --> 00:16:29,860
I was like, oh, this is perfect. I'm
totally getting it. But they're like,

249
00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:32,780
actually really isn't the audition. This
is just an interview. If we want you to

250
00:16:32,780 --> 00:16:34,080
go to the audition, I'm like, oh, okay.

251
00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:35,800
They're like, but please bring your
twin.

252
00:16:36,740 --> 00:16:41,440
So begged my sister, begged her. And she
goes, hey, look, before you make the

253
00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:46,320
decision to go to Italy to play pro
soccer, come check this out with me. We

254
00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,000
up, you hate it, you know, this wasn't
meant to be. I'm like, or we show up and

255
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,740
we're like, this is for us. And I was
like, hmm.

256
00:16:54,530 --> 00:16:56,710
I'm watching Monday Night Raw. I'm
seeing the little pig butt.

257
00:17:00,470 --> 00:17:04,670
I'm like, I really like this. It's like
being athletic and showcasing your

258
00:17:04,670 --> 00:17:07,470
athletic ability and competing and being
a champion.

259
00:17:09,890 --> 00:17:11,990
So it's like, you know what? I'll listen
to Brie. I'll give it a chance.

260
00:17:13,050 --> 00:17:18,589
When we showed up to Diva Search, Brie
had steered me very much in the wrong

261
00:17:18,589 --> 00:17:20,790
direction. She told me we were going
there to fight.

262
00:17:22,439 --> 00:17:24,260
that look like a line of go -go dancers.

263
00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:31,960
Everyone was in sparkly bras, and I was
dressed, like, in jeans and a tank top.

264
00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:33,400
I don't even know if I had makeup on.

265
00:17:33,660 --> 00:17:35,940
She's calling around trying to get some
wrestling ideas.

266
00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,260
She's on the phone with The Rock.

267
00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,540
We were still so off. That's okay. Even
when I look at us in our swimsuits. And

268
00:17:44,540 --> 00:17:46,320
I love it because it's Brie night.

269
00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:51,020
No, we both did the same thing. The twin
thing. Even when you see us in the

270
00:17:51,020 --> 00:17:54,260
swimsuit competition part, Brie and I
don't really have a lot of makeup on and

271
00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:57,740
we have our hair thrown up. Like, girls
were in full glam as if they were trying

272
00:17:57,740 --> 00:17:58,740
out for Miss USA.

273
00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,840
Not Brie and I. You put two tomboys into
swimsuits and that's what you got.

274
00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:07,400
But that's what made us realize very
quickly that we're very drawn to the

275
00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:12,000
wrestling side of WWE and we wanted to
become that.

276
00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,360
Because, you know, when you walk into a
ring, you have everyone cheering. You

277
00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:16,540
can't help but go, yeah!

278
00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,940
And here you walk in and you can just
tell they're ready just to, like, pick

279
00:18:19,940 --> 00:18:21,820
apart. It was an awful experience.

280
00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,860
Say if I was your boyfriend and I slept
with your sister while I was dating you,

281
00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:28,300
what would you say to me?

282
00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,060
Oh, I don't even think I'd say words.
I'd knock you out.

283
00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,660
That was the same answer your sister
said. Oh, really?

284
00:18:34,060 --> 00:18:36,340
Thank you so much, Brianna. You're
welcome.

285
00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:38,360
We got told we don't have boobs.

286
00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,840
I mean, you name it.

287
00:18:41,150 --> 00:18:42,690
Why do you have bear claws?

288
00:18:42,970 --> 00:18:44,190
Well, it's a sad story.

289
00:18:44,390 --> 00:18:45,570
I don't want to bring people down.

290
00:18:45,810 --> 00:18:48,510
But I got it for a boyfriend who passed
away.

291
00:18:48,950 --> 00:18:51,270
So his name was Bear. Yeah, high school
sweetheart.

292
00:18:51,610 --> 00:18:55,030
We walked out of there. My sister looked
at me like, I hate you.

293
00:18:55,670 --> 00:18:59,890
And then this woman, her name is Kristen
Prouty. She pulled my sister and I

294
00:18:59,890 --> 00:19:01,650
aside. She was really sincere.

295
00:19:01,990 --> 00:19:06,090
I knew and saw. And we all did. They
checked every box.

296
00:19:06,670 --> 00:19:09,710
Charisma, athleticism, confidence.

297
00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:11,819
They'd pop.

298
00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:18,580
And so, yeah, I pulled Bree and Nicole
aside and told them, please, like, if

299
00:19:18,580 --> 00:19:22,560
really want to wrestle, can I talk to
you? Because we'd love to fly you out to

300
00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,940
our developmental program in the Deep
South and get you guys in the ring, and

301
00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:29,100
let's really see, like, if there's a
good fit.

302
00:19:29,420 --> 00:19:33,220
And the next thing you know, we were
flying down to McDonough, Georgia, the

303
00:19:33,220 --> 00:19:37,620
Dirty South, and then we had to make our
way to the training facility.

304
00:19:38,140 --> 00:19:42,320
Like, I was expecting to see, like, this
gorgeous, big, elaborate developmental

305
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:43,320
program.

306
00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,800
And it was not that. And I'm like, oh,
oh, oh, okay.

307
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,040
It was grungy.

308
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:51,920
They don't want you to be impressed.

309
00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,220
They're like, come here, and you impress
us.

310
00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,540
And I just remember, like, fellas, get
in there.

311
00:19:56,780 --> 00:19:58,220
Let's see how you can do bumping.

312
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:03,300
Bill DeMott was like, you know what a
back bump is? And I'm like, no. And he

313
00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:04,420
just went, boom.

314
00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,860
And I just remember hitting the mat,
like.

315
00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:11,880
That was so cool. I love this. We
watched a show and I remember just

316
00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,580
of them nervous backstage, like figuring
everything out and seeing them come out

317
00:20:16,580 --> 00:20:17,479
with their characters.

318
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,720
And Nicole and I were just like, whoa,
like this is like awesome.

319
00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,160
That was our first taste of just hearing
a crowd react.

320
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,220
Booing and cheering and chanting.

321
00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,600
And I remember going back to our hotel
room that night.

322
00:20:37,270 --> 00:20:40,570
Brie and I start wrestling around. Like,
we look like five -year -olds. Like,

323
00:20:40,610 --> 00:20:44,250
after you watch wrestling or you want to
be your superhero. That was Brie and I

324
00:20:44,250 --> 00:20:51,130
at 22 years old. In a hotel room, broke
a TV, broke a drawer, and then we're

325
00:20:51,130 --> 00:20:52,130
laying on bags of ice.

326
00:20:52,450 --> 00:20:57,270
I mean, we just laid on the bed in so
much pain, but with the biggest smiles

327
00:20:57,270 --> 00:20:58,209
our faces.

328
00:20:58,210 --> 00:21:02,010
Like, her and I looked at each other and
we're like, oh, yeah, this is for us.

329
00:21:02,550 --> 00:21:03,550
And that was it.

330
00:21:03,630 --> 00:21:05,910
Like, we knew in our hearts, like, we
were made.

331
00:21:06,380 --> 00:21:07,840
to be professional wrestlers.

332
00:21:12,940 --> 00:21:16,840
After Deep South, they reached out to my
sister and I, and they're like, let's

333
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,980
talk about a contract. We'd love to sign
you two. And we will pay you weekly to

334
00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:23,420
learn how to wrestle, but you need to
move to Tampa.

335
00:21:24,060 --> 00:21:26,920
And I just remember being like, oh, this
is real.

336
00:21:27,260 --> 00:21:30,720
But yes, we decided that we're going to
be the Bellagio.

337
00:21:31,130 --> 00:21:34,230
It was like a cheeky little nod to our
grandfather, who was a school -blooded

338
00:21:34,230 --> 00:21:39,870
Italian. And that was it. We decided to
become WWE superstars.

339
00:21:41,670 --> 00:21:47,230
We drive into Tampa, Florida, and we're
like, palm trees and water and

340
00:21:47,230 --> 00:21:50,910
everything. I'm like, okay, Florida's
pretty cool.

341
00:21:51,290 --> 00:21:55,230
My mom was terrified. I just want
everyone to know. She thought alligators

342
00:21:55,230 --> 00:21:57,150
literally, like, walk the streets like
cats.

343
00:21:59,350 --> 00:22:03,950
FCW was a developmental program for the
WWE, and the head trainer was Dr.

344
00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:05,150
Tom Pritchard.

345
00:22:05,370 --> 00:22:10,370
Dr. Tom is like, we're teaching you
alaka, how to take an arm, chokehold,

346
00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:12,670
lock, and we'd start to learn wrestling.

347
00:22:13,110 --> 00:22:16,410
It was so exciting that my sister and I
asked, can we do night school?

348
00:22:16,750 --> 00:22:18,670
He's like, you guys are with us eight
hours a day.

349
00:22:18,950 --> 00:22:21,090
We're like, yeah, we'll go get dinner,
and then we'll come back.

350
00:22:21,850 --> 00:22:26,070
So we started to do night school with
Dr. Tom, and he's like, let's think of

351
00:22:26,070 --> 00:22:26,789
your entrance.

352
00:22:26,790 --> 00:22:27,910
How do you guys want to come out?

353
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,280
What is it you want to do?

354
00:22:29,580 --> 00:22:32,680
That's how we came up with the Bella
booty shake and the backflip.

355
00:22:33,380 --> 00:22:38,140
And so it was like during the day,
hardcore wrestling moves, and at night

356
00:22:38,140 --> 00:22:39,140
like the fun stuff.

357
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:51,160
From the men and

358
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,640
women, we got a lot of hate.

359
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,960
What are they, just models? Oh, they
came through divas search? They're not

360
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,780
athletic. They're not wrestling fans.
They don't belong here. I even remember

361
00:22:59,780 --> 00:23:02,240
some of the other women were teaching us
moves wrong.

362
00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:06,320
Like, when someone told me, like, back
elbow, I didn't know it meant block it,

363
00:23:06,340 --> 00:23:10,800
too. And I would eat it. I literally
would eat people's forearms and back

364
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,160
because I thought I had to.

365
00:23:12,620 --> 00:23:13,800
Maybe I should have been in UFC.

366
00:23:14,540 --> 00:23:18,520
People were trying to make us so
miserable, so we quit. But those women

367
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,380
realize that they were giving us more
fire to succeed.

368
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,480
I was like, if this is how it is to earn
respect, fine.

369
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,560
I'm going to make people respect us.

370
00:23:32,140 --> 00:23:36,920
But two girls, I didn't have to earn
their respect. They were just so great

371
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:37,919
the beginning.

372
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,000
Natalia Neidhart and Chrissy Bane.

373
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,960
Chrissy and Natty were amazing mentors.

374
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:48,680
Natalia Neidhart, the third generation
diva, daughter of Jim the Anvil

375
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,900
a diva with a dangerous DNA.

376
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,160
I was brand new as well. And of course,
being brand new to WWE, I was scared of

377
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:55,979
my own shadow.

378
00:23:55,980 --> 00:24:00,860
So I was just happy to have somebody
else that was like also being judged as

379
00:24:00,860 --> 00:24:02,620
well so that I wasn't the only one being
judged.

380
00:24:03,950 --> 00:24:07,570
We kind of had like a mutual unspoken
agreement that they were going to teach

381
00:24:07,570 --> 00:24:12,830
everything they knew about presentation,
about my costumes, my promos, my whole

382
00:24:12,830 --> 00:24:13,830
total package.

383
00:24:14,230 --> 00:24:18,370
They helped me fake it until I could
make it. And I was going to teach them

384
00:24:18,370 --> 00:24:21,890
everything I knew about pro wrestling
because I had grown up around it my

385
00:24:21,890 --> 00:24:26,790
life. From Greensboro, North Carolina,
Chrissy Payne.

386
00:24:27,010 --> 00:24:31,070
And Chrissy was also amazing because
Chrissy came from the independents. She

387
00:24:31,070 --> 00:24:32,130
a massive star there.

388
00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:36,180
They taught us about wrestling
etiquette, the important things as a

389
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:40,460
And they started teaching Nicole and I
moves and the psychology of wrestling

390
00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:42,920
matches. Every day we are learning all
of this.

391
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,320
We all were trying to prep to be
superstars on TV.

392
00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:50,340
But Bree and I, deep down, we wanted to
be the best.

393
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,880
Even in our very early years at FCW,
you're a sitting duck in developmental.

394
00:24:59,540 --> 00:25:00,560
It's sink or swim.

395
00:25:01,050 --> 00:25:04,210
Either you rise to the top and you break
through and make it to the main roster,

396
00:25:04,410 --> 00:25:07,870
like Raw or SmackDown, or you don't make
it and you get fired. And that's it.

397
00:25:08,030 --> 00:25:09,370
Those are your dreams. They're done.

398
00:25:10,130 --> 00:25:14,270
So we were all really excited because
WWE used to have their own magazine, and

399
00:25:14,270 --> 00:25:17,730
they were doing a feature on FCW, and it
just came out.

400
00:25:18,330 --> 00:25:22,290
So Jack Swagger was sitting up on the
apron, and he and I both were reading

401
00:25:22,290 --> 00:25:25,770
article like, oh my gosh, we're finally
in a magazine. We were all so pumped.

402
00:25:26,290 --> 00:25:29,250
And then Sweet Puppy Chulo is in the
ring.

403
00:25:29,850 --> 00:25:31,270
He's 200 -something pounds.

404
00:25:31,690 --> 00:25:37,470
So Sweet Papi Trullo hits Jack Swagger
as hard as he can, which causes, by

405
00:25:37,470 --> 00:25:41,230
accident, Jack Swagger to headbutt me.

406
00:25:41,650 --> 00:25:43,250
Sure enough, I had a shattered nose.

407
00:25:43,730 --> 00:25:45,510
And then, of course, Murphy's Law.

408
00:25:49,190 --> 00:25:52,610
They were going to debut Nikki and I
from SmackDown.

409
00:25:54,830 --> 00:25:59,010
And I'm like, are you kidding me? I just
shattered my nose. I have black and

410
00:25:59,010 --> 00:26:03,610
purple eyes. Like, okay, fine. I'm not
going to tell him. This is what we

411
00:26:03,610 --> 00:26:06,590
trained for in our last 14 months of in
-ring work.

412
00:26:07,010 --> 00:26:12,550
I just was like, you mess up this, like
one time you go out, that's it. You go

413
00:26:12,550 --> 00:26:14,370
back there on a real mental and you
probably get fired.

414
00:26:16,010 --> 00:26:20,430
When they told me my first match was
against Victoria, a well -respected

415
00:26:20,430 --> 00:26:21,810
that the crowd loves.

416
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,860
who's an amazing wrestler, I'm like, is
this good for me or not?

417
00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:40,860
When Nikki and I started with WWE and we
showed up to Pittsburgh, Nikki and I

418
00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:41,860
were walking into the arena.

419
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,840
I was very nervous to go to TV. I just
had a lot of pressure.

420
00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:51,820
We were entering a whole new group of
women and dealing with TV time and

421
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,160
It was almost like when you graduate
middle school, now you're entering high

422
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,760
school. This is where we were at.

423
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,960
We had a big roster of women then, but
they were all underutilized. None of

424
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,600
were given the storylines that the men
were given. None of them were given a

425
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,820
compelling storyline at all.

426
00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:13,160
You look at television, and there's
probably 10 different segments, maybe

427
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:18,400
but there's only one for women, and
that's a lot of women fighting for a

428
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,320
Which resulted maybe in not the
healthiest of locker room environments.

429
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,180
It was less about supporting one another
and more about getting one over on each

430
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:33,720
other, which is not necessarily unusual
in a competitive environment, but

431
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,180
certainly wasn't the most familial.

432
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,880
You know, Brie and I show up and they're
like, let's go with Brie because she

433
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,100
doesn't have the messed up face.

434
00:27:43,460 --> 00:27:46,620
Nikki, let's try to get as much makeup
on as we can on you.

435
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:49,660
And then it's like, no, you can't be in
our locker room.

436
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,200
I understood it.

437
00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:57,660
If you want us to change in the bathroom
before we debut on live television on

438
00:27:57,660 --> 00:27:58,660
SmackDown, sure.

439
00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:02,600
Okay. And then we put on our outfits and
then we were told, oh, it looks like

440
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,440
your pants look like bell bottoms. And
some other girl wears bell bottoms.

441
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,299
like, oh my gosh.

442
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,260
Oh, black and red. Well, someone else
wears black and red. You guys can't wear

443
00:28:09,260 --> 00:28:13,000
that. And Nicole and I just looked at
each other and we were like, we're

444
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,120
supposed to debut tonight. And like,
what are we going to do?

445
00:28:15,850 --> 00:28:18,950
The seamstress at WWE, they were
amazing.

446
00:28:19,910 --> 00:28:22,770
They were like, we'll help you. What do
you have in your bag?

447
00:28:23,010 --> 00:28:27,990
And we're like, well, we have a bikini,
swimsuit, some BB workout pants, and

448
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:32,030
they literally cut our swimsuit. They
sewed them onto our workout pants that

449
00:28:32,030 --> 00:28:35,510
actually worked out in that day. And we
made our wrestling gear for the night.

450
00:28:35,950 --> 00:28:37,730
I ain't the lady to mess with.

451
00:28:40,130 --> 00:28:42,290
Her music hit, crowd goes nuts.

452
00:28:44,130 --> 00:28:45,290
My music hit.

453
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,440
And the crowd is dead quiet.

454
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,880
Like, you could hear a pin drop. And I
walk out with this big smile on my face.

455
00:28:56,940 --> 00:29:01,000
And my teeth are, like, chattering.
Like, everything. I'm nervous. I'm

456
00:29:01,340 --> 00:29:02,400
I want to vomit.

457
00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:06,200
I just was like, here we go.

458
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:15,020
But I will say this.

459
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,680
Victoria took care of me out there when
it came to the wrestling.

460
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,380
And then it was time to do a twin
switch.

461
00:29:27,580 --> 00:29:31,440
The twin switch, it's something that
only happened in singles matches with

462
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:36,800
twins. For example, if Nicole gets
chucked out of the ring and the ref

463
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,740
see it, Brie would come up and get back
in the ring and pretend she was Nicole.

464
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,140
Essentially, it was cheating.

465
00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:48,520
I knew that it all depended on my timing
and how I came out for them to buy it.

466
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,760
And if they didn't buy it, there was
going to be no Bella Twins.

467
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,020
You get one chance.

468
00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:01,780
We do the twin switch.

469
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:10,220
We beat Victoria. The crowd was so
upset.

470
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:11,520
We're like...

471
00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:12,980
That actually worked.

472
00:30:15,740 --> 00:30:19,620
Celebrate on the ramp and I'm doing all
the cute stuff, but you can see where so

473
00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:24,580
much makeup is covering up my broken
nose. So that's how we debuted.

474
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:34,500
So we were able to get away with doing
twin switches for three

475
00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:35,500
months.

476
00:30:48,409 --> 00:30:52,090
And then finally Vince is like, okay, we
need to reveal the twins.

477
00:30:52,590 --> 00:30:55,750
We need to make it where it almost looks
impossible.

478
00:30:56,170 --> 00:31:00,430
Like, Victoria has the girl's arm,
Natalia has the girl's leg, and all of a

479
00:31:00,430 --> 00:31:01,890
sudden she looks really, really long.

480
00:31:03,930 --> 00:31:05,870
It was kind of like, wait a minute.

481
00:31:06,170 --> 00:31:09,810
What's happening here? And ultimately,
they each pulled out a twin.

482
00:31:11,170 --> 00:31:17,810
And it was the beginning of a very long
legacy

483
00:31:17,810 --> 00:31:18,930
of the Bella twins.

484
00:31:20,230 --> 00:31:26,030
Nikki and I knew in that moment that
being the first ever twin girls to debut

485
00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:27,750
WWE, that was something special.

486
00:31:28,510 --> 00:31:32,130
And you know what the crazy part is?
People talk about trending on Twitter.

487
00:31:32,450 --> 00:31:34,290
There was none of that back in the day.

488
00:31:34,670 --> 00:31:39,710
We trended on Yahoo, which was a big
deal. When you were in, like, the top

489
00:31:39,710 --> 00:31:44,530
in Yahoo, which we were the top one for,
like, two or three days straight, that

490
00:31:44,530 --> 00:31:45,530
was big.

491
00:31:49,270 --> 00:31:54,890
But for some reason, it was so hard to
stick as wrestlers because they always

492
00:31:54,890 --> 00:31:56,890
saw us as a duo and not individuals.

493
00:31:58,070 --> 00:31:59,810
And we debuted as wrestlers.

494
00:32:00,750 --> 00:32:02,890
So all we wanted to be was wrestlers.

495
00:32:03,790 --> 00:32:07,370
So it was, I think, really hard for them
to place where to put us.

496
00:32:07,930 --> 00:32:11,730
You look at us, it's like, oh, easy,
twins, arm candy.

497
00:32:11,990 --> 00:32:12,990
There you go.

498
00:32:13,010 --> 00:32:14,890
Their idea was to put us with a cologne.

499
00:32:15,210 --> 00:32:16,209
Hey, guys.

500
00:32:16,210 --> 00:32:21,170
And for Miz and Morrison to kind of
fight over us. That would be us.

501
00:32:21,910 --> 00:32:23,030
It's boys and girls.

502
00:32:23,350 --> 00:32:27,450
In the beginning, they weren't giving
women much time in the ring, so a lot of

503
00:32:27,450 --> 00:32:28,950
their storylines were focused backstage.

504
00:32:29,370 --> 00:32:30,370
Hi, Alberto.

505
00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:35,200
So Brie and I keep getting stuck in
these boyfriend storylines. And this is

506
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,880
how Brie and I are. We're not those type
of girls.

507
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,840
If they guys were valeting us, now that
would make sense.

508
00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:43,580
That's how Brie and I are. When the
writers came up to Nicole and I, and

509
00:32:43,580 --> 00:32:48,560
like, we thought of a hilarious story
for you two to work with Daniel Bryan.

510
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,240
Daniel, oh my gosh, are you okay?

511
00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:55,490
Yeah. And they're like, well, he's a
vegan. And we thought you two could be

512
00:32:55,490 --> 00:33:00,030
fighting for his virginity and see which
Bella gets his virginity. You're the

513
00:33:00,030 --> 00:33:01,030
best Bella win.

514
00:33:01,370 --> 00:33:03,110
Oh, thank you, Nikki.

515
00:33:03,610 --> 00:33:07,230
And then you end up finding that he's
not a virgin, he's a vegan.

516
00:33:07,530 --> 00:33:11,670
I would still love to be in that meeting
of when that all was discussed and

517
00:33:11,670 --> 00:33:12,830
decided, but okay.

518
00:33:13,550 --> 00:33:14,670
Oh, my God.

519
00:33:15,530 --> 00:33:17,690
So we do this crazy, corny story.

520
00:33:17,990 --> 00:33:20,670
We thought you were, uh, you know, um...

521
00:33:21,130 --> 00:33:22,370
Vegan? Oh, absolutely.

522
00:33:22,690 --> 00:33:27,230
I don't eat any meat. But I will admit,
there was a lot of fun.

523
00:33:27,490 --> 00:33:31,010
You want this afterthought over us?

524
00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:34,830
Yeah, I mean, when was the last time the
afterthought was on TV?

525
00:33:36,010 --> 00:33:37,010
Afterthought? Yeah.

526
00:33:42,890 --> 00:33:47,550
Now I kind of realize why my sister
fought so hard. I think there was true

527
00:33:47,550 --> 00:33:48,550
there.

528
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:55,530
But what this meant is that we had to
spend a lot of time with Brian.

529
00:33:55,730 --> 00:33:58,970
Did you see how he looked at me after
Twin Magic last week? Nikki, our

530
00:33:58,970 --> 00:34:00,290
connection is so strong.

531
00:34:00,650 --> 00:34:04,050
During this whole storyline, I'm
starting to notice something. When I

532
00:34:04,050 --> 00:34:07,230
find Brie, I'm like, where's Brie?
Because she was always with me.

533
00:34:07,890 --> 00:34:09,630
She'd be flirting with Daniel Bryan.

534
00:34:10,989 --> 00:34:14,469
You know, you're sitting there waiting
to film your pre -tape, and Brian and I

535
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:18,449
start talking, and we start realizing
how much we have in common.

536
00:34:18,949 --> 00:34:20,219
I was like, Wow.

537
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000
You're like, cool.

538
00:34:22,340 --> 00:34:24,980
Before you know it, we're going to
museums before Raw.

539
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:30,980
We're meeting up on live events. And
then we start dating. And the rest is

540
00:34:30,980 --> 00:34:31,980
history.

541
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:37,520
You

542
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:45,679
know,

543
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,060
the really neat thing is Brian.

544
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:50,780
He really started to open my eyes to
just women's wrestling.

545
00:34:52,659 --> 00:34:57,680
It was really hard for us to debut as
wrestlers, especially having my match,

546
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:02,620
first one against Victoria, to all of a
sudden having to be like arm in arm with

547
00:35:02,620 --> 00:35:04,320
a guy and the story's all about them.

548
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,000
I have to say it was a lot of fun and I
learned a lot from the men at the time,

549
00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:13,200
but I craved to just be that wrestler.
When I saw the girls having their

550
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,100
individual matches and fighting for
championships and just...

551
00:35:17,390 --> 00:35:19,150
Fighting. We were getting frustrated.

552
00:35:19,730 --> 00:35:22,730
We were like, okay, then what's next?
They're like, well, we're not sure.

553
00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:26,650
Okay, like, can we get back into the
women's division and try to go for a

554
00:35:26,690 --> 00:35:27,750
And I was like, well, no.

555
00:35:28,290 --> 00:35:30,090
We're like, what can we do?

556
00:35:35,190 --> 00:35:39,210
Brie and I would be pitching every week,
trying to find any way we could to get

557
00:35:39,210 --> 00:35:40,590
into that ring and fight.

558
00:35:41,370 --> 00:35:44,970
And it was like they just couldn't wrap
around.

559
00:35:45,550 --> 00:35:47,290
any storyline besides being twins.

560
00:35:48,250 --> 00:35:52,930
So for a little bit, we are off TV, but
we're like, we can't be off television

561
00:35:52,930 --> 00:35:56,990
because when you're off television, the
crowd forgets about you and you're not

562
00:35:56,990 --> 00:35:57,990
as valuable anymore.

563
00:35:58,170 --> 00:36:03,490
Well, Nicole and I were like, hmm, they
look at us right now as like arm candy.

564
00:36:04,370 --> 00:36:10,470
Why don't we use it to stay on
television as we're still working the

565
00:36:10,470 --> 00:36:13,310
having the writers try to think of
wrestling storylines for us?

566
00:36:13,660 --> 00:36:17,180
And we heard that Vince was starting to
bring in celebrity guests as hosts.

567
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,340
So we pitched to be the guest host
assistant.

568
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,800
Did not realize that was going to be two
years booked as celebrity guest hosts.

569
00:36:28,860 --> 00:36:29,280
But

570
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:36,440
I'll

571
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,060
take it because it got us back on live
events. But Brie and I just kept

572
00:36:40,060 --> 00:36:42,540
in our heads, how do we get back to
wrestling?

573
00:36:44,350 --> 00:36:47,530
There was an internet show we started to
do called Superstars.

574
00:36:49,950 --> 00:36:53,690
No one ever wanted to wrestle on it. Let
me tell you, when you were asked to

575
00:36:53,690 --> 00:36:57,230
wrestle on Superstars, the main event,
you were almost like, I'm going to take

576
00:36:57,230 --> 00:36:58,670
back bumps for not television.

577
00:36:59,010 --> 00:37:01,650
But for me, I was like, it's practice.

578
00:37:02,210 --> 00:37:03,210
I get to wrestle.

579
00:37:03,710 --> 00:37:04,950
Someone's watching. We have to impress.

580
00:37:05,250 --> 00:37:07,190
Give us a storyline on that. You will be
good.

581
00:37:07,910 --> 00:37:12,800
When I first heard of the Bella Twins, I
thought, oh, you know, that's... Pretty

582
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,540
unique. You have these gorgeous,
identical twins that want to be a part

583
00:37:17,540 --> 00:37:20,680
but do they really have the goods to
deliver?

584
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,300
Brie and I started to wrestle our hearts
out on there.

585
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,440
They turned us bad because it's a lot
easier to have your bad guys lose.

586
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:36,340
Producers and all that started to
realize the Bellas really love

587
00:37:36,340 --> 00:37:37,340
really want to wrestle.

588
00:37:38,030 --> 00:37:41,710
And Brie and I were the type of girls
like, I'll lose every week. I don't

589
00:37:41,850 --> 00:37:44,070
I'll put over your girl. Just let it
thin.

590
00:37:44,570 --> 00:37:50,390
And we started to do that and become
these heel characters and losers.

591
00:37:51,390 --> 00:37:54,170
They never gave up. They're taking
bumps.

592
00:37:54,470 --> 00:37:55,550
They're not complaining.

593
00:37:56,070 --> 00:38:00,530
They're coming every single day, showing
up for work, ready to go. And I think

594
00:38:00,530 --> 00:38:03,170
that speaks to the true character of the
Bella.

595
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,580
But we started to get really over with
the crowd. The crowd wanted more and

596
00:38:07,580 --> 00:38:08,580
from Brie and I.

597
00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:21,420
I remember I was at this New York hot
spot with my girlfriends talking, and

598
00:38:21,420 --> 00:38:25,040
of a sudden, I get a text from one of
the writers, and I'm like, that's weird.

599
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,720
And I'm reading it, and they're like,
Brie, Vince wants you to win the Divas

600
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:32,560
Championship this Monday on Raw against
Steve Torres and do a fun twin thing.

601
00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:35,130
And I'm like, what?

602
00:38:35,930 --> 00:38:37,570
The Divas Championship?

603
00:38:41,370 --> 00:38:46,810
The Divas Division was actually a term
to put a spotlight on our women, to give

604
00:38:46,810 --> 00:38:47,810
them something special.

605
00:38:48,290 --> 00:38:52,550
You had Divas on VH1. That was Whitney
Houston and Aretha Franklin.

606
00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:57,030
And at the time, it was really a term of
empowerment.

607
00:38:57,570 --> 00:39:01,830
Well, it's about time that our Divas had
a championship of their own.

608
00:39:02,620 --> 00:39:08,680
And from a company standpoint, there was
a decision that Brie really deserved

609
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:09,680
this opportunity.

610
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,140
I am a little envious.

611
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:16,580
Not jealous, but I am a little envious.
I wish I could say that I was the first

612
00:39:16,580 --> 00:39:18,560
Bella champ. I can't, but I was also...

613
00:39:18,810 --> 00:39:20,110
so excited for my sister.

614
00:39:20,370 --> 00:39:24,250
And I knew that whatever I can do in her
moment that night, I was going to do

615
00:39:24,250 --> 00:39:27,330
the best. I was like, you keep telling
me your match, whatever you need me for,

616
00:39:27,470 --> 00:39:30,550
use my body, use my character, use
everything.

617
00:39:30,770 --> 00:39:33,670
I just wanted Brie to have this insane,
shining moment.

618
00:39:36,410 --> 00:39:39,070
So here we are on a huge night.

619
00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:42,650
It's a distinguishing mark, so you can
tell the bells went apart.

620
00:39:43,070 --> 00:39:46,210
I was really grateful that they wanted
to put the title on, because that says

621
00:39:46,210 --> 00:39:47,210
they trust you.

622
00:39:48,490 --> 00:39:49,490
So we do it.

623
00:39:50,730 --> 00:39:53,290
I wanted to sit and put a badass mask
together.

624
00:39:53,830 --> 00:39:58,230
But we get our time cut, so it really
felt like silly. But I'm a heel, so...

625
00:39:58,230 --> 00:40:01,350
you see the switch? I did. The switch
was made by the Bellas. The referee's

626
00:40:01,350 --> 00:40:04,590
attention was with Eve. And I actually
will never forget, because for me, like,

627
00:40:04,590 --> 00:40:10,010
you tell me about my heel character,
well... But Twin Magic, man, worked out

628
00:40:10,010 --> 00:40:14,050
anyway. Bree with the cover here. And
Bree is the New Demon champion.

629
00:40:14,510 --> 00:40:16,490
I win, but I'm going to be like, ha -ha,
loser.

630
00:40:16,710 --> 00:40:17,710
Loser was our thing.

631
00:40:18,350 --> 00:40:20,570
And I remember walking back, and they're
like, you didn't even smile when you

632
00:40:20,570 --> 00:40:22,950
won. And I'm like, oh, was I supposed
to? And they're like, well, aren't you

633
00:40:22,950 --> 00:40:25,610
happy you won? And I'm like, back here,
I guess.

634
00:40:25,930 --> 00:40:28,650
Out there, I'm Brie Bella, the heel, who
cheated to win.

635
00:40:29,230 --> 00:40:32,590
And they're like, good point, but still,
smile when you win a title. And I'm

636
00:40:32,590 --> 00:40:34,830
like, oh, damn it, I already screwed up.

637
00:40:35,410 --> 00:40:36,910
And I haven't even champed for 10
minutes.

638
00:40:39,150 --> 00:40:41,050
But my run was short.

639
00:40:43,810 --> 00:40:44,810
And then...

640
00:40:46,890 --> 00:40:48,350
It was like back to the drawing board.

641
00:40:49,510 --> 00:40:53,210
I think maybe going back to the drawing
board so many times was exhausting.

642
00:40:53,950 --> 00:40:58,610
It was like if you weren't going for the
title shot, then you were hanging out

643
00:40:58,610 --> 00:40:59,488
and catering.

644
00:40:59,490 --> 00:41:02,690
And, like, I didn't want to hang out and
catering. And I didn't want to

645
00:41:02,690 --> 00:41:07,470
constantly think of some arm candy spot.
Like, I wanted to wrestle.

646
00:41:08,170 --> 00:41:11,250
They just kind of were, like, not happy
with how they were being treated.

647
00:41:11,490 --> 00:41:13,890
They just didn't feel like they were
being used well.

648
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,480
They felt kind of neglected, and they
just wanted more. And they're very, very

649
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,680
ambitious, driven women that want more.

650
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,700
I remember they were like, yeah, girls,
we're going to talk to you about your

651
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:26,460
contract. A week goes by, two weeks go
by, a month goes by.

652
00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:31,580
And Brie and I kind of were like, if
we're not satisfied, why are we here?

653
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,380
If we're not fulfilled, why are we here?

654
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,720
So my sister and I were just like, are
we okay being this for the rest of our

655
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:40,720
careers?

656
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,860
And the answer was simple, no.

657
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,560
They wanted us to resign, and we said,
no, we're not happy.

658
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,240
We want to wrestle, and that's that. And
boom, we left.

659
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,600
So my sister and I took that leap of
faith.

660
00:42:02,060 --> 00:42:06,640
We left WWE. It was tough, but we
trusted it.

661
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,620
Now, I will say that when we walked away
from WWE, they were pretty consistent

662
00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:14,540
on calling every few weeks, like, sure,
girls, don't want to come back and

663
00:42:14,540 --> 00:42:15,540
wrestle.

664
00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:19,220
And Brie and I were standing our ground,
but deep down inside, Brie and I wanted

665
00:42:19,220 --> 00:42:20,320
to go back so bad.

666
00:42:21,740 --> 00:42:22,740
They missed it.

667
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,340
They missed being in the ring. They
missed the coworkers.

668
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:26,960
They just missed the industry.

669
00:42:28,020 --> 00:42:31,940
We even went and did a few indie shows
because we just needed to be around it.

670
00:42:31,980 --> 00:42:32,980
We were craving it.

671
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:35,820
11 months go by.

672
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:37,520
And my phone rings.

673
00:42:37,980 --> 00:42:38,980
It's Triple H.

674
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,580
He said that they wanted to do a reality
show with E and that they want my

675
00:42:45,580 --> 00:42:50,880
sister and I to come back to lead this
reality show to showcase women's

676
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:55,360
wrestling. Literally pulling back the
curtain and letting them see the

677
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,660
and how we make the magic.

678
00:42:57,580 --> 00:43:02,760
And Brie and I start talking and we're
like, you saw backstage stuff on Hogan

679
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,740
and Macho Man and Ultimate Warrior.

680
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,280
But you never saw anything on the women.

681
00:43:07,980 --> 00:43:13,460
This can actually give women the time
they deserve and the love and the

682
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,700
If it's my way to get back to WWE, if
this is my way to get the storylines I

683
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,920
want in wrestling, hell yeah, bring the
cameras. Let's do this.

684
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:32,300
When we got the call that it was a
massive hit, that we were right under

685
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:38,330
Kardashians in ratings, we all were
like, cost like people care total divas

686
00:43:38,330 --> 00:43:44,590
on fire i mean we literally are making
mainstream shit brie and nikki bella

687
00:43:44,590 --> 00:43:50,230
please welcome brie bella nikki bella
it's the bella twins and family thanks

688
00:43:50,230 --> 00:43:54,950
having us back and with the success of
total divas we went on to do six more

689
00:43:54,950 --> 00:43:56,750
seasons of our own show total bella

690
00:43:59,950 --> 00:44:04,270
What I loved about Total Divas is it
finally gave you the opportunity to

691
00:44:04,270 --> 00:44:05,730
get to know Brie and I as individuals.

692
00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:15,790
And my sister and I had this idea that
we

693
00:44:15,790 --> 00:44:18,850
should start to showcase in WWE who we
really are.

694
00:44:19,270 --> 00:44:23,010
We finally got to be authentic to who we
were as individuals.

695
00:44:23,490 --> 00:44:24,850
Why do we have to dress identical?

696
00:44:25,190 --> 00:44:27,790
We're twins. Yes, that's great. We're
not clones.

697
00:44:28,330 --> 00:44:32,070
I think people then related to us. They
were like, I'm a Nikki.

698
00:44:32,370 --> 00:44:33,470
No, I'm a Brie.

699
00:44:34,010 --> 00:44:37,350
You just got to see this different side
of all of us women that created an

700
00:44:37,350 --> 00:44:42,050
emotional connection for the audience
where women that watch Total Divas would

701
00:44:42,050 --> 00:44:44,950
all of a sudden be tuning in to watch
WWE because they're like, we want to see

702
00:44:44,950 --> 00:44:45,950
the Bella Twins.

703
00:44:46,030 --> 00:44:49,130
And it was amazing because you started
to see that change in the crowd.

704
00:44:49,350 --> 00:44:53,770
Little girls and women were inspired by
it. They were empowered by it. And they

705
00:44:53,770 --> 00:44:56,150
started to show up. And this was the
first for wrestling.

706
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:03,760
The Bellas started to realize we're not
just wrestlers, we're superstars. We can

707
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:08,780
compete for time in the ring, but
there's also this other world that we

708
00:45:08,780 --> 00:45:09,780
build out our brand.

709
00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:12,860
And we are going to build the Bella
Army.

710
00:45:13,450 --> 00:45:20,070
And now the Bellas had their army, and
it gave them a power that they were able

711
00:45:20,070 --> 00:45:24,530
to use to demand the attention that they
needed in the WWE and the attention

712
00:45:24,530 --> 00:45:25,388
they deserved.

713
00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:29,110
And they were the perfect talent to do
that show with because they're just not

714
00:45:29,110 --> 00:45:31,410
afraid to show the good, bad, and the
ugly.

715
00:45:31,710 --> 00:45:37,530
You got to see Brie's relationship with
Daniel Bryan really coming to life, and

716
00:45:37,530 --> 00:45:38,950
then Nikki's relationship with John.

717
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,940
As an audience member, we fall in love
with their love.

718
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,220
They weren't afraid to get judged. They
weren't afraid to be real. They weren't

719
00:45:47,220 --> 00:45:50,440
afraid to leave it all on the table. And
that's why people were intrigued by

720
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,000
them, because they were okay to let it
all hang out a little bit.

721
00:45:53,220 --> 00:45:56,500
I just want to take a second to tell
everybody here and everybody watching

722
00:45:56,500 --> 00:45:58,100
these girls are extremely brave.

723
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,380
I've loved filming the show. I've loved
watching the show. But I also understand

724
00:46:01,380 --> 00:46:04,460
how difficult it is putting their lives
out there for everybody to see. It's

725
00:46:04,460 --> 00:46:06,380
extremely challenging at times.

726
00:46:07,020 --> 00:46:12,660
The crazy part about a reality show is
that the messy stuff gets aired to

727
00:46:12,660 --> 00:46:16,260
everybody. The thing is, is that what
people say out there hurts me inside.

728
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,480
And then for my own sister to get on me
and say stuff like, you don't know how

729
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:24,060
bad it hurts. Yes, I was born bigger. I
am bigger. I'm sorry. And now today, you

730
00:46:24,060 --> 00:46:27,600
should be supporting me, but instead,
like, you make me feel like... And I...

731
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:28,600
sucks.

732
00:46:29,060 --> 00:46:35,360
Just like the matches all tell stories
about human emotion, Total Divas...

733
00:46:35,580 --> 00:46:40,420
was able to take that even deeper and
show, like, the depth of people's lives.

734
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,280
Ladies and gentlemen, my new fiancé.

735
00:46:43,620 --> 00:46:46,580
With all the drama, the tears, the
laughter.

736
00:46:47,860 --> 00:46:52,980
As the audience got to learn more about
us, we started getting more storylines,

737
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,520
and some of those storylines would, you
know, kind of cross over from things

738
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,500
that people saw of us on Total Divas.
Like, Bremode.

739
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:01,200
Bremode.

740
00:47:01,500 --> 00:47:02,500
Bremode.

741
00:47:05,620 --> 00:47:08,820
Okay, on the reality show, it's when I
drink a lot.

742
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:13,340
And this really fun, crazy side comes
out. So I came up with this thing of

743
00:47:13,340 --> 00:47:14,420
Bremode activated.

744
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:19,180
When, like, you really take me to a
certain place, and then Bremode gets

745
00:47:19,180 --> 00:47:21,180
activated, which means I'm going to kick
your butt.

746
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:32,360
It was such a moment for me because I
felt like I could start to really prove.

747
00:47:32,970 --> 00:47:36,890
Who I always was in this industry
because I was always told, no, you can't

748
00:47:36,890 --> 00:47:39,530
these moves. No, you can't be this
person. No, you can't wear that.

749
00:47:40,310 --> 00:47:44,190
And finally, I was like, I'm over
following the rules.

750
00:47:44,510 --> 00:47:46,810
I'm going to break rules and I'm going
to apologize later.

751
00:47:49,590 --> 00:47:51,290
That's when I started to change my own
game.

752
00:47:52,110 --> 00:47:54,290
I'm a powerhouse and I'm going to
showcase that.

753
00:47:55,730 --> 00:47:58,810
I started to watch a lot of Beth
Phoenix's footage.

754
00:47:59,799 --> 00:48:03,260
And all of these women in the past that
were very strong.

755
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,460
And I started to look at what men were
doing.

756
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,540
I don't care if I'm a woman. I'm going
to learn a spine buster.

757
00:48:11,060 --> 00:48:14,320
I'm going to learn how to do a spear in
this way. I'm going to learn how to lift

758
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:15,920
someone from this to get them here.

759
00:48:16,460 --> 00:48:18,520
And I just started to put it all
together.

760
00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:22,180
And I started training on different
moves.

761
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,760
And, gosh, when the rack attack was
born.

762
00:48:29,250 --> 00:48:33,130
That's when I became a force to be
reckoned with.

763
00:48:39,770 --> 00:48:44,330
So women's wrestling is finally getting
respect. It's getting loved. We're

764
00:48:44,330 --> 00:48:46,610
finally doing what we want to do and
what we love.

765
00:48:46,830 --> 00:48:51,210
Our voices are being heard. The fans are
being heard. We're bringing in little

766
00:48:51,210 --> 00:48:55,450
girl fans. We're bringing in women fans.
We have found our place and we are

767
00:48:55,450 --> 00:48:56,890
becoming equal to the men.

768
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:01,220
Like, people are literally buying a
ticket to see the Total Divas. And then

769
00:49:01,220 --> 00:49:02,220
leg breaks again.

770
00:49:05,140 --> 00:49:06,840
I can't even freaking move.

771
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,300
Dude, that's not good. We're going to
have to go to doc.

772
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:10,560
I want to go to doc.

773
00:49:11,380 --> 00:49:15,600
I knew something was wrong, but I wanted
to ignore it because I knew I was in a

774
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,020
moment that was about to break a glass
ceiling.

775
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,740
When you get injured in wrestling,
you're taken out. You can't perform,

776
00:49:22,740 --> 00:49:23,638
you're not in it.

777
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,740
We're a tag team. We're the Bella Twins.

778
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:27,580
I thought that was it for me, too.

779
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,020
I mean, I tell you the timing of my
life.

780
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,020
It is just not in sync with me.

781
00:49:37,980 --> 00:49:41,180
So they made me go to the hospital, and
I remember the doctor coming in like,

782
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,340
you have an insane stress fracture.
Like, how are you walking? It's a pretty

783
00:49:45,340 --> 00:49:50,000
significant stress fracture. So what I
had talked about last week, about the

784
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,700
four to six weeks, added crutches to it
and extended.

785
00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:58,160
So what we're going to do is crutches,
non -weight -bearing, so no weight on

786
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:03,320
that for four weeks. Second four weeks,
crutches, partial weight -bearing. After

787
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:07,580
that, no crutches. I'd say by 12 weeks,
back to the ring.

788
00:50:08,180 --> 00:50:13,580
I just remember feeling so down. 12
weeks, I mean, that's like six lifetimes

789
00:50:13,580 --> 00:50:18,460
wrestling. With Nikki out, I knew I had
to go back to the drawing board. I had

790
00:50:18,460 --> 00:50:22,420
to think really hard, how can I keep
myself on television?

791
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:28,400
You know, during this time, Stephanie
and Brian have this story that is

792
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:33,160
and becoming the top story to tune into
on Monday Night Raw. You have wanted to

793
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:39,800
strip me of this title ever since I beat
your husband at WrestleMania 30. My

794
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,880
husband, of course, Triple H, we were
the authority and I am a villain, right?

795
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:45,280
So I was abusing my authority.

796
00:50:45,620 --> 00:50:49,940
He slaps him, she's... threatened to
fire him. She's done all these mean

797
00:50:49,940 --> 00:50:53,040
to him. But as a man, he physically
can't do anything bad.

798
00:50:53,340 --> 00:50:56,300
And they all were like, but Bree can.

799
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,500
I was like, I know my story.

800
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:05,640
My story is getting revenge on a woman
who is being so awful to my husband.

801
00:51:06,420 --> 00:51:08,320
Stephanie didn't always work with
talent.

802
00:51:08,620 --> 00:51:13,260
She was very picky with that, and it was
just something you couldn't fight.

803
00:51:13,580 --> 00:51:16,240
One of the principal owners of WWE,

804
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,380
Stephanie McMahon.

805
00:51:20,740 --> 00:51:24,020
Stephanie grew up in the industry, and
she'd been a part of so many high

806
00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:25,040
-profile storylines.

807
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,540
With McMahon's, it's always very black
and white, good and bad. They had this

808
00:51:29,540 --> 00:51:32,000
really beautiful foundation for an
incredible story.

809
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:34,680
Let's have a very...

810
00:51:35,210 --> 00:51:42,030
warm round of applause for the wwe world
heavyweight champion daniel

811
00:51:42,030 --> 00:51:46,730
bryan it was almost like they gave a
tutorial a lesson to everybody else

812
00:51:46,730 --> 00:51:51,050
storytelling stay away and because
there's so many people tuning into total

813
00:51:51,050 --> 00:51:55,610
divas you have all these new females
watching so like Brie, how dare this

814
00:51:55,830 --> 00:51:58,210
And it was amazing because they were
invested.

815
00:51:58,470 --> 00:52:03,770
They were so invested in Brie and
Brian's life inside WWE and outside of

816
00:52:04,110 --> 00:52:05,770
You only like me because I'm the
champion.

817
00:52:06,050 --> 00:52:08,910
Ew. Like, if they make me get rid of the
titles, you're just going to leave me.

818
00:52:08,970 --> 00:52:12,710
And this is when pure magic started
happening. Like, we couldn't even stop

819
00:52:12,730 --> 00:52:13,730
It was just the story unfolding.

820
00:52:14,850 --> 00:52:21,370
Surrender the WWE World Heavyweight
Championship, or she is.

821
00:52:24,110 --> 00:52:25,110
FIRED!

822
00:52:26,090 --> 00:52:28,250
Wild. This is why I love wrestling.

823
00:52:29,510 --> 00:52:31,150
Come on out here, Daniel!

824
00:52:31,550 --> 00:52:33,290
I'll never forget that night.

825
00:52:34,230 --> 00:52:35,810
Daniel Bryan's music hits.

826
00:52:40,430 --> 00:52:47,430
And Brie comes out, and then, just like
a wife would, she tells

827
00:52:47,430 --> 00:52:48,430
a woman off.

828
00:52:48,660 --> 00:52:52,100
Actually, I refuse to be a powerless
victim.

829
00:52:52,780 --> 00:52:55,400
You don't control me.

830
00:52:55,980 --> 00:52:57,800
See, but Brie, I do.

831
00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:01,440
Because you work for me.

832
00:53:02,460 --> 00:53:05,620
You can't fire me. I quit!

833
00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:16,260
I think it's one of the hardest laughs
I've ever been on the

834
00:53:16,260 --> 00:53:17,560
receiving end of, I thought.

835
00:53:18,660 --> 00:53:21,560
stars. Everyone used to say that that
was the slap you heard around the world.

836
00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:24,460
It was kind of like, ooh, is there
something there?

837
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:31,280
As talent in wrestling, if you can make
your fans disgust with that real or

838
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,640
fake, that's when you got it. That's
when you sold the story.

839
00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:37,520
It took me to a completely different
level.

840
00:53:37,780 --> 00:53:41,620
And I have to say, I felt like I became
a top star.

841
00:53:47,980 --> 00:53:52,140
And then it was so cool because at this
point, I'm back. I've overcome this

842
00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:53,860
injury. Good to go.

843
00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:55,240
I'm cleared.

844
00:53:55,540 --> 00:53:56,540
All right. Yay!

845
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:02,260
So to keep the story of bringing
Stephanie going, we felt that naturally

846
00:54:02,260 --> 00:54:06,860
amazing for Stephanie to put me in these
moments that there's no way I could get

847
00:54:06,860 --> 00:54:07,860
out of.

848
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:14,660
Tonight's match should by all rights be
a tag team match, but instead, you're

849
00:54:14,660 --> 00:54:15,840
going to have to go it alone.

850
00:54:16,430 --> 00:54:20,250
Like two or three, tie my hand behind my
back.

851
00:54:21,010 --> 00:54:24,130
But I always show up. I'm always ready
to fight.

852
00:54:24,870 --> 00:54:29,950
And I took that going into it like real
life. Like I made sure that that was the

853
00:54:29,950 --> 00:54:34,150
feeling. And we naturally kept doing
more and more because the fans were

854
00:54:34,150 --> 00:54:35,029
behind it.

855
00:54:35,030 --> 00:54:39,130
To where the Bella Army literally
started to call me Fearless Nikki.

856
00:54:40,390 --> 00:54:45,010
It naturally came about. It was not from
the company. It was not from me. It was

857
00:54:45,010 --> 00:54:46,010
from my fans.

858
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:47,200
I became a star.

859
00:54:47,340 --> 00:54:49,320
I became who I was meant to be.

860
00:54:49,820 --> 00:54:51,020
Fearless Nikki was born.

861
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,600
And Brie gets a match against Stephanie
at SummerSlam.

862
00:55:01,940 --> 00:55:06,440
It gets sold so quick. And so many of
that female demo, especially from the

863
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,420
network. So many women showed up because
they could not believe Brie Bella was

864
00:55:09,420 --> 00:55:14,640
fighting her boss. They didn't even care
that it was John Cena or Brock Lesnar

865
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,340
on the card. They wanted to see Brie
Bella fight her boss. I mean, she truly

866
00:55:18,340 --> 00:55:20,480
a fan favorite, and I truly am not.

867
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,540
So that in and of itself really worked
together.

868
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,960
And then because Fearless Nikki was on
the rise during this time that no one

869
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,740
expected, they were like, we have to
have Nicole a part of this.

870
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,260
So we get to SummerSlam.

871
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:34,800
And I was so nervous.

872
00:55:35,340 --> 00:55:39,640
I think it was over 10 years since I had
had a match at that point. And Brie

873
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,020
really helped keep me calm through the
whole scenario.

874
00:55:43,100 --> 00:55:45,700
Brie and Stephanie kill it. The crowd is
so invested.

875
00:55:45,980 --> 00:55:46,980
They have this match.

876
00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:54,840
I'll come to Triple H. So people are
like, what's going to happen?

877
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:56,280
I come down.

878
00:55:56,620 --> 00:55:57,700
I get in the ring.

879
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,140
And I get behind Stephanie. Because, of
course, double trouble. We're going to

880
00:56:01,140 --> 00:56:02,880
block her in. We're going to twin
sandwich her.

881
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:04,120
Twin magic!

882
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,720
And this is when Vince is a genius.

883
00:56:08,020 --> 00:56:10,520
He was like, you're turning on your
sister tonight.

884
00:56:10,740 --> 00:56:11,940
And I was like, what?

885
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:17,640
Wow. The crowd has no idea what they're
in for. We only had one chance to make

886
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:22,040
people believe that I was sick of being
Bree's twin and I was sick of being the

887
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,840
one who was getting beaten up on her
decision.

888
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:30,940
Our timing, our spacing, everything
couldn't have been so perfect. And when

889
00:56:30,940 --> 00:56:33,680
grabbed Stephanie and chucked her as
hard as I could, which I did.

890
00:56:34,510 --> 00:56:38,850
And I gave Brie that MMA forearm that
belonged in UFC and probably not WWE.

891
00:56:43,790 --> 00:56:44,790
That crowd.

892
00:56:47,210 --> 00:56:49,830
I never felt that before just being
women in a ring.

893
00:56:50,110 --> 00:56:51,290
Just the three women.

894
00:56:52,170 --> 00:56:53,230
Oh my God!

895
00:56:53,610 --> 00:56:54,610
What?

896
00:56:55,550 --> 00:56:56,930
What the hell just happened?

897
00:56:58,110 --> 00:57:02,190
You had Triple H out on the side. But
when you really look at that moment.

898
00:57:02,700 --> 00:57:06,660
Women made the crowd roar like that, not
men, purely women.

899
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:09,860
Those are the moments that you get in
this business for.

900
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:14,040
You know, those are the moments that you
take with you forever.

901
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,900
Right after I make a comeback at the
SummerSlam, I start to have one of the

902
00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:27,900
runs of my life.

903
00:57:28,980 --> 00:57:32,650
And... I show up one day and they're
like, we want you to be a leader of the

904
00:57:32,650 --> 00:57:34,830
division. We have all these plans.

905
00:57:35,310 --> 00:57:36,710
We know you can carry it.

906
00:57:37,270 --> 00:57:40,690
And I just remember feeling so honored
that day and so excited. And they're

907
00:57:40,690 --> 00:57:43,990
like, okay, you guys have 15 minutes.
Tell a story.

908
00:57:44,530 --> 00:57:45,870
And I was like, this is perfect.

909
00:57:46,950 --> 00:57:49,270
AJ Lee and I, we come up with a great
match.

910
00:57:49,510 --> 00:57:50,510
It was amazing.

911
00:57:51,350 --> 00:57:54,690
And right before we got in the grill,
they're like, oh, do you guys have about

912
00:57:54,690 --> 00:57:57,270
five minutes? And we're like, five
minutes?

913
00:57:57,950 --> 00:58:01,110
You have a two -hour show, so if the
first match goes longer, the second

914
00:58:01,110 --> 00:58:04,150
goes longer, the third match goes
longer, time runs out.

915
00:58:04,770 --> 00:58:08,970
And when time gets cut on the show, a
lot of the time it comes from the

916
00:58:08,970 --> 00:58:14,790
matches. And a lot of fans had taken
notice that for a long, long time they

917
00:58:14,790 --> 00:58:16,470
saying, why are the girls' matches so
short?

918
00:58:17,390 --> 00:58:19,730
But okay, we're going to try and make it
work.

919
00:58:20,290 --> 00:58:24,230
We get in grill and they go, so, um, you
think you could do this in, like, less

920
00:58:24,230 --> 00:58:25,230
than a minute?

921
00:58:25,660 --> 00:58:28,280
And I just remember thinking, like, here
we go.

922
00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:32,660
So Brie came up with this amazing idea,
like, AJ, if you're okay with it, what

923
00:58:32,660 --> 00:58:37,420
if I jump up and I give you that kiss to
death, which turns into Nikki's

924
00:58:37,420 --> 00:58:39,280
finisher, and it kind of gives it to me.

925
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,680
So we're like, okay, we can do it in
less than a minute.

926
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,320
So now I've become the new Divas
Champion.

927
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,540
But deep down, I wasn't happy about it.
I wanted to give them an epic match. I

928
00:58:51,540 --> 00:58:54,660
wanted the crowd to be on the edge of
their seat, and I didn't want them to

929
00:58:54,660 --> 00:58:55,660
my win coming.

930
00:58:55,900 --> 00:58:59,600
I felt like, are we really taking steps
back, and why?

931
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:04,360
We were on this huge high in top
stories, and all of a sudden, we're

932
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,540
told, like, hey, you guys have 10
minutes. And then all of a sudden, hey,

933
00:59:08,540 --> 00:59:09,540
guys have five minutes.

934
00:59:10,260 --> 00:59:14,660
Oh, hey, you guys have two minutes. Can
you just do a little heat and then a

935
00:59:14,660 --> 00:59:15,660
finish?

936
00:59:18,660 --> 00:59:25,280
From Scottsdale, Arizona, Brie and the
Divas champion, Nikki, the Bella

937
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:26,280
Twins.

938
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,720
Brie and I have a tag match against
Paige and Emma.

939
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:36,260
And the people in the back literally
came to us before we were about to go

940
00:59:36,340 --> 00:59:39,120
They said, can you guys make your tag
match two minutes?

941
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:44,120
But with entrances. So you probably will
have like, I don't know, minute 30 in

942
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:45,120
the ring.

943
00:59:45,540 --> 00:59:47,760
minute 30 in a ring to tell a tag match.

944
00:59:49,300 --> 00:59:50,300
We're furious.

945
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,060
And I'm like, top guys don't have to
tell stories in two minutes.

946
00:59:53,780 --> 00:59:57,220
No one who has a top story has to tell a
story in two minutes. It's impossible.

947
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,500
When you give us less time on what we're
doing, you know what the fans want as

948
01:00:02,500 --> 01:00:06,120
well. You're what they believe in.
You're taking it away from them. And

949
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,320
not what they want as a viewer. It's
someone who pays a ticket to watch their

950
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:14,160
superhero. We were mad that there was
something inside all four of us.

951
01:00:14,540 --> 01:00:17,500
We all looked at each other and were
like, let's give them a finisher.

952
01:00:17,860 --> 01:00:20,620
If that's all they really want is to see
us walk out there, then it doesn't

953
01:00:20,620 --> 01:00:21,620
matter what we do.

954
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:26,140
And we went out there, gave a finisher.

955
01:00:28,420 --> 01:00:31,140
One, two, three.

956
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,000
We walked back.

957
01:00:34,420 --> 01:00:38,020
Our producer was like, you guys still
had another minute and 15 seconds.

958
01:00:38,460 --> 01:00:40,340
We were giving them the middle fingers,
I'll be honest.

959
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,520
And you know what? We all were going to
take the chance of getting fired, and

960
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:44,520
that's okay.

961
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,380
The fans just went crazy.

962
01:01:02,180 --> 01:01:06,060
They didn't understand. Like, why did
the girls have such a short match? This

963
01:01:06,060 --> 01:01:07,240
ridiculous. This is embarrassing.

964
01:01:07,740 --> 01:01:09,040
It was like the last straw.

965
01:01:09,470 --> 01:01:12,750
Because we gave them a taste of what we
can do. We gained their respect.

966
01:01:13,010 --> 01:01:18,230
They wanted more, and our company wasn't
giving it. They hashtagged Give Divas a

967
01:01:18,230 --> 01:01:21,950
Chance because they were so tired of
seeing the ups and downs for divas.

968
01:01:22,330 --> 01:01:28,430
And this hashtag trended worldwide for
three days, specifically demanding

969
01:01:28,430 --> 01:01:33,650
storylines, better character
development, longer matches, more

970
01:01:34,210 --> 01:01:38,250
And we responded in the biggest way
possible with Vince McMahon.

971
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:42,580
saying, we hear you, keep watching,
hashtag give divas a chance.

972
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:47,760
And that was super inspirational for
everyone to see, like sometimes you have

973
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:52,580
go out and get it, and you've got to
demand it. It was the fans, it was the

974
01:01:52,580 --> 01:01:56,820
wrestlers, it was the girls being like,
done, we're not doing this anymore.

975
01:01:57,660 --> 01:02:01,600
I'm happy that night we did it, because
I feel like that changed women's

976
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,700
wrestling at WWE for good.

977
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:20,780
I remember I was driving on my own. I
was doing live events, and I didn't have

978
01:02:20,780 --> 01:02:21,780
Brian or Nikki.

979
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:24,260
And I was, like, really thinking. I'm
like, you know what?

980
01:02:24,740 --> 01:02:26,820
I've done amazing things in my career.

981
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,320
I've learned. I've grown. I've become a
woman. I've fought for women.

982
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,480
It is okay for this chapter of my life
to be done.

983
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:38,540
It is time for me to be a mom. And when
I told my husband I will retire at

984
01:02:38,540 --> 01:02:44,720
WrestleMania and we can start to try for
a baby, his face, it was like we could

985
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:45,720
do something together.

986
01:02:46,650 --> 01:02:47,970
And that was my decision to retire.

987
01:02:53,070 --> 01:02:56,310
In this moment of fighting for change,
and most importantly, fighting for

988
01:02:56,310 --> 01:03:02,010
equality, wanting to be equal to the
male superstars, a lot of us felt we had

989
01:03:02,010 --> 01:03:03,010
wrestle with the male.

990
01:03:04,030 --> 01:03:05,510
I wanted to do a stair spot.

991
01:03:06,970 --> 01:03:09,750
I remember before I walked out, one of
the guys was like, well, if you're doing

992
01:03:09,750 --> 01:03:12,590
that stair spot, you better make sure
you do it better than a man.

993
01:03:12,850 --> 01:03:14,810
I was like, oh, that's all you have to
say to me.

994
01:03:15,850 --> 01:03:17,230
I will definitely do so.

995
01:03:17,930 --> 01:03:23,230
When you hit the stairs, the stairs
break apart and they make this

996
01:03:23,230 --> 01:03:28,350
loud noise. But then the visual of it,
you're just like, oh my gosh, it is such

997
01:03:28,350 --> 01:03:30,570
an incredible reaction from the crowd.

998
01:03:31,090 --> 01:03:36,790
So I go out there and I'm prepared to
take those stairs better than any man

999
01:03:36,790 --> 01:03:37,790
ever taken them.

1000
01:03:38,620 --> 01:03:42,980
But what we didn't realize, there was a
steel cage match that night. It was main

1001
01:03:42,980 --> 01:03:48,720
eventing. So usually they put the poles
through the stairs to prep the steel

1002
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:49,720
cage.

1003
01:03:49,940 --> 01:03:54,200
And I did like a sprint with it. I was
like, I'm going to make myself a bullet.

1004
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:04,200
I felt like I hit the strongest brick
wall in the world.

1005
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,800
And I remember laying on my back and I
had knocked the wind out of myself.

1006
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:13,860
I think I just snapped my collarbone in
half.

1007
01:04:17,700 --> 01:04:20,920
In professional wrestling, we're out
there to entertain.

1008
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:25,600
But the one thing I think sometimes
people forget is that we give our body.

1009
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,080
So I'm wrestling five nights a week and
just giving it my all.

1010
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:42,200
I'm hitting the rack attack every night
and I didn't want to stop.

1011
01:04:42,620 --> 01:04:46,380
And nothing like a cortisone shot to
just get you through the next day.

1012
01:04:46,380 --> 01:04:50,120
at the time I was the champion. So I'm
not going to go tell the doctor and get

1013
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:55,000
-rays. I don't want to lose my momentum.
I don't want to lose my spot. I want to

1014
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,060
stay to be the champion.

1015
01:04:56,740 --> 01:04:57,840
Not smart though.

1016
01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:02,360
Start. to, like, get these lumps on my
back.

1017
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,320
And I start to tell Bree, like, Bree,
I'm in a lot of pain. Like, when I wake

1018
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,640
in the night, I have to stand up because
it hurts too much to lay down.

1019
01:05:11,140 --> 01:05:16,200
She kept feeling this severe pain in her
neck, her back. It was getting to her

1020
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:17,860
legs. She was losing feeling.

1021
01:05:19,140 --> 01:05:20,140
There's something wrong.

1022
01:05:24,910 --> 01:05:29,910
We're live on TV, and there was some
type of move going on where, with Paige

1023
01:05:29,910 --> 01:05:36,030
my rack, I get knocked, and it causes
her to hit my neck, and my leg just went

1024
01:05:36,030 --> 01:05:37,710
up. They were, like, paralyzed.

1025
01:05:38,330 --> 01:05:43,010
It was only for a few seconds, but I
remember thinking, like, holy cow,

1026
01:05:43,070 --> 01:05:44,070
something's wrong.

1027
01:05:44,370 --> 01:05:46,730
And that's when I demanded the x -ray
and the MRI.

1028
01:05:47,050 --> 01:05:53,570
I go in, and literally, the guy at the
hospital comes out and was

1029
01:05:53,570 --> 01:05:55,480
like... You are about to be paralyzed.

1030
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,880
It's like, or lights out. You need
emergency surgery.

1031
01:05:59,500 --> 01:06:03,320
And we realized it was the rack attack
over time was slowly breaking my neck.

1032
01:06:06,620 --> 01:06:10,640
So I knew about this doctor who was
incredible with spines.

1033
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:16,100
And I was like, hey, Dr. eBay, I think
my neck is about to break in half.

1034
01:06:16,860 --> 01:06:19,240
And he's like, you need emergency
surgery.

1035
01:06:19,790 --> 01:06:23,370
I think I can go in, clean everything
up, and then we do a bone fusion.

1036
01:06:23,610 --> 01:06:25,270
He goes, you can work out again.

1037
01:06:25,790 --> 01:06:27,470
Wrestling, you are completely done.

1038
01:06:27,730 --> 01:06:31,110
And I just remember hearing those words
like, what was that?

1039
01:06:37,510 --> 01:06:40,010
Going into surgery, there's a lot of
risk.

1040
01:06:42,350 --> 01:06:45,070
Literally one touch to your spinal cord
and you could be paralyzed.

1041
01:06:45,690 --> 01:06:48,430
If I can't compete in that ring, at
least I want to walk through life as

1042
01:06:48,430 --> 01:06:54,290
as possible. So no matter what, I am
going to stay fearless and do the best I

1043
01:06:54,290 --> 01:06:58,610
can. So when you're signing all those
papers before surgery, you're kind of

1044
01:06:58,610 --> 01:07:00,650
like, I just remember freaking out.

1045
01:07:01,010 --> 01:07:02,350
Okay, I might get paralyzed.

1046
01:07:03,150 --> 01:07:04,410
Maybe I won't wake up.

1047
01:07:05,470 --> 01:07:08,830
And I think John really felt that.

1048
01:07:09,610 --> 01:07:12,230
He was a big part of how I got through
that.

1049
01:07:13,870 --> 01:07:15,330
He never left my side.

1050
01:07:16,710 --> 01:07:22,630
I just remember as I was slowly falling
asleep, I was like, I'm so scared.

1051
01:07:26,370 --> 01:07:31,750
But then waking up, I'm around family,
I'm around loved ones, and seeing Dr.

1052
01:07:31,790 --> 01:07:37,050
Uribe and him telling me it was
successful, Nikki, you are good. Oh, my

1053
01:07:37,050 --> 01:07:39,750
was like the best orgasm in the world.

1054
01:07:40,050 --> 01:07:42,530
It's so crazy amazing, goodness.

1055
01:07:44,140 --> 01:07:45,920
That means I can do whatever I want.

1056
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:49,740
She's going to recover very healthy.
Yeah.

1057
01:07:50,380 --> 01:07:52,140
She's already planning her comeback.

1058
01:07:56,800 --> 01:08:00,620
It is the night legends show youthful
exuberance.

1059
01:08:01,940 --> 01:08:04,940
Legacies are born or laid to rest
forever.

1060
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:07,420
This is Bree's last match tonight.

1061
01:08:07,740 --> 01:08:08,740
Okay.

1062
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:12,180
Everyone knew that my last night was
going to be at WrestleMania.

1063
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,760
And Vince wanted to make it special by,
I mean, wrestling with all the girls.

1064
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:22,640
Winning the match.

1065
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,240
And then them just, like, kind of
celebrating me.

1066
01:08:27,859 --> 01:08:31,120
And it was neat because last minute
they're like, we need to have Nikki walk

1067
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:32,120
down that ramp.

1068
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:35,020
And they weren't sure just because she
was still in her neck brace.

1069
01:08:35,380 --> 01:08:37,380
I had to be in a neck brace for six
months.

1070
01:08:38,420 --> 01:08:41,100
I was really embarrassed at first, but I
was like, you got to let go, Nicole.

1071
01:08:41,260 --> 01:08:42,260
Like, you just go.

1072
01:08:44,330 --> 01:08:47,010
Oh my gosh, to fill the crowd again was
so incredible.

1073
01:08:49,770 --> 01:08:52,310
To also be there for Bree's retirement
match was amazing.

1074
01:08:53,210 --> 01:08:57,010
But I was really happy for her for
making that decision in her life of

1075
01:08:57,149 --> 01:09:01,710
this is what I want to do. I want to be
a mom. That's pretty badass in its own

1076
01:09:01,710 --> 01:09:02,710
way.

1077
01:09:03,850 --> 01:09:08,010
I wasn't the girl who needed to have
that big singles match, one -on -one,

1078
01:09:08,010 --> 01:09:09,109
all the attention on me.

1079
01:09:09,590 --> 01:09:12,310
I always wanted to empower, support
other women.

1080
01:09:13,390 --> 01:09:18,410
To have that moment with all these girls
I wrestled with, filmed a reality show

1081
01:09:18,410 --> 01:09:23,029
with, where we had to put our lives out
to everyone, to be in the ring with all

1082
01:09:23,029 --> 01:09:24,770
of them, it's all I ever wanted.

1083
01:09:26,069 --> 01:09:31,609
And the topper that night is when they
took away the Divas title belt and they

1084
01:09:31,609 --> 01:09:36,729
said women are no longer called Divas.
They are so much more than Divas here in

1085
01:09:36,729 --> 01:09:37,729
this ring today.

1086
01:09:38,149 --> 01:09:41,350
They are all WWE superstars.

1087
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,760
And they introduced the Women's Raw
Championship.

1088
01:09:46,260 --> 01:09:49,279
And we didn't have to have this feminine
title.

1089
01:09:49,500 --> 01:09:51,260
We could have the same title as the men.

1090
01:09:53,540 --> 01:09:56,780
And I was like, I helped do this.

1091
01:09:57,480 --> 01:10:03,860
I helped this night happen by turning
all our no's into yeses, all the

1092
01:10:03,860 --> 01:10:09,140
into positives, and believing in one
thing. There's not one spot for one

1093
01:10:09,140 --> 01:10:11,260
that many women.

1094
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,660
can have many spots, and that all of us
can be successful.

1095
01:10:17,980 --> 01:10:22,040
You know, it was weird because in that
moment, your soul and, like, your

1096
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:25,340
intuition, your gut kind of tell you
when things are done. You kind of just

1097
01:10:25,340 --> 01:10:27,320
that feeling when, like, a door is
closed.

1098
01:10:28,820 --> 01:10:30,660
My door didn't feel closed with
wrestling.

1099
01:10:33,980 --> 01:10:38,080
After I retired from wrestling, I
started to try to have a baby with

1100
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,380
we were lucky. Four months later, I was
pregnant.

1101
01:10:41,210 --> 01:10:46,710
And now that I'm a mom, what an amazing
job, if you call it, it is.

1102
01:10:47,110 --> 01:10:48,570
I think it's time to take a bath.

1103
01:10:48,830 --> 01:10:53,110
What do you think? I thought, like,
okay, I'm going to make sure I'm really

1104
01:10:53,110 --> 01:10:57,570
my career. And then, yes, I'm a mom and
all that. But now, after I held my baby

1105
01:10:57,570 --> 01:10:59,730
for the first time, it's like, no, I'm a
mom first.

1106
01:11:00,250 --> 01:11:01,470
And then I'm a career woman.

1107
01:11:02,010 --> 01:11:04,310
I didn't realize how much I would love
to be a mom.

1108
01:11:04,890 --> 01:11:08,390
And I would never trade any of that for
anything in the world.

1109
01:11:08,810 --> 01:11:10,450
All right, Brie, I love you. Okay, I
love you, too.

1110
01:11:15,710 --> 01:11:21,470
So I come back at SummerSlam in
Brooklyn, New York, which Brooklyn, oh,

1111
01:11:21,470 --> 01:11:26,450
crowd goes wild. I wasn't even expecting
that. I almost forgot how to do my

1112
01:11:26,450 --> 01:11:29,670
booty shake in that moment because I
was, like, so floored by the reaction.

1113
01:11:30,430 --> 01:11:33,870
You felt the love. Like, you even see
some of the girls in the ring break

1114
01:11:33,870 --> 01:11:36,030
character because they felt the
emotions.

1115
01:11:37,020 --> 01:11:42,020
For anybody to come back from any sort
of an injury is tough. To come back from

1116
01:11:42,020 --> 01:11:44,700
a neck injury is a different animal.

1117
01:11:45,020 --> 01:11:45,818
Oh, wow.

1118
01:11:45,820 --> 01:11:47,460
You're showing us how fit she is.

1119
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:52,360
She's a beast and absolutely nothing can
stop her. She is what she says she is.

1120
01:11:52,380 --> 01:11:53,380
She's fearless.

1121
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:03,960
When I look back, I never would have

1122
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,020
thought it would have ended where it
did.

1123
01:12:06,730 --> 01:12:10,370
Having this beautiful tag team match
with John at WrestleMania.

1124
01:12:10,950 --> 01:12:16,990
With John

1125
01:12:16,990 --> 01:12:21,550
grabbing a mic in front of millions and
millions of people.

1126
01:12:33,970 --> 01:12:35,830
Stephanie Nicole Garcia -Cola.

1127
01:12:38,380 --> 01:12:39,380
Will you marry me?

1128
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:49,640
I just remember feeling like the
luckiest girl in the world.

1129
01:12:51,700 --> 01:12:53,040
It was huge.

1130
01:12:53,340 --> 01:12:57,740
The proposal was massive, and the fans
were all a part of it, and it was so

1131
01:12:57,740 --> 01:12:58,740
cool.

1132
01:12:59,820 --> 01:13:03,240
I think that's why it was so...

1133
01:13:03,530 --> 01:13:07,250
challenging probably after because
everyone was so emotionally invested in

1134
01:13:07,250 --> 01:13:11,210
journey through the show and then
through the proposal that when it was

1135
01:13:11,210 --> 01:13:16,830
was hard for people to handle it for
some reason since birdie's been born and

1136
01:13:16,830 --> 01:13:22,410
i've spent a lot of time with birdie it
has just brought up these feelings of

1137
01:13:22,410 --> 01:13:29,370
really wanting to be a mom and i thought
i could really sacrifice

1138
01:13:29,370 --> 01:13:30,810
that and i just can't

1139
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:39,980
In a time that everyone was excited
about this wedding, she had the strength

1140
01:13:39,980 --> 01:13:46,160
and the fortitude, knowing she needed to
make a decision that would be extremely

1141
01:13:46,160 --> 01:13:51,700
hard. And as her mother, I saw the heat
she got. Every time you turn around, you

1142
01:13:51,700 --> 01:13:54,080
know, I would see something online about
them.

1143
01:13:55,370 --> 01:14:00,650
I still see the trolls online that still
make comments, that won't let it go,

1144
01:14:00,830 --> 01:14:04,930
and it's really hard as her sister to
not be able to protect her from all

1145
01:14:05,270 --> 01:14:07,030
I don't know how I'm going to do without
you.

1146
01:14:07,810 --> 01:14:10,430
I took away everyone's fairytale ending.

1147
01:14:11,370 --> 01:14:12,710
People hated me for it.

1148
01:14:13,250 --> 01:14:15,510
I couldn't do easy.

1149
01:14:15,730 --> 01:14:21,790
I knew I had to go through hard, and
that is the hardest thing to do, to walk

1150
01:14:21,790 --> 01:14:23,610
away from someone that you love.

1151
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:27,860
But it's also empowering when you can
walk away from something that you know

1152
01:14:27,860 --> 01:14:31,940
isn't right so that the future would be
happy.

1153
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:46,320
Here I just had this massive public
breakup with John and I was avoiding

1154
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:48,520
Vince McMahon calls me.

1155
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,380
And he says, we're going to do an all
-women's pay -per -view, and I want you

1156
01:14:52,380 --> 01:14:55,080
main event it against Ronda Rousey with
Brie by your side.

1157
01:14:55,480 --> 01:14:59,740
To get that call from Vince, I mean,
that's huge.

1158
01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:03,820
This is what we've been waiting for.
This is what us women were fighting for,

1159
01:15:03,820 --> 01:15:08,320
have an event, just women, on one card
for one night.

1160
01:15:08,940 --> 01:15:13,240
That's incredible. And to finally main
event something like that. Now that, for

1161
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:14,240
me, is my Oscar.

1162
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:21,660
There was a lot of belief that it
wouldn't draw or that it wouldn't be any

1163
01:15:21,780 --> 01:15:27,160
And yet WWE decided that they were going
to do this and plant their flag in the

1164
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:30,880
ground. The fellas believe that they're
the reason there's a evolution tonight.

1165
01:15:31,020 --> 01:15:33,900
I do agree with them. I think that they
were the first women that were part of

1166
01:15:33,900 --> 01:15:37,760
the hashtag Give Divas a Chance. They've
been here through the entire journey.

1167
01:15:37,860 --> 01:15:41,740
It was quite remarkable. And we sold out
Nassau Coliseum.

1168
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:45,900
Our women just absolutely shine.

1169
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:51,580
We did trend number one worldwide for
over two and a half hours during the

1170
01:15:51,580 --> 01:15:54,760
game of the World Series and NFL Sunday
Night Football.

1171
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,460
That was probably my favorite time
losing.

1172
01:15:58,820 --> 01:16:00,040
My ultimate fave.

1173
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,860
It was amazing for all the women to be
able to come together as a collaborative

1174
01:16:05,860 --> 01:16:10,500
group to go, hey, we just sold out an
arena with just women.

1175
01:16:11,340 --> 01:16:12,980
It was like the perfect ending.

1176
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:17,360
I just knew it was time for me to retire
and pass the torch to the next

1177
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:21,460
generation. My sister and I, we had
accomplished all we set out to do in the

1178
01:16:21,460 --> 01:16:23,940
ring for ourselves and for women's
wrestling as a whole.

1179
01:16:24,540 --> 01:16:29,000
And I just knew it was time for me to
focus on the next chapters of my life.

1180
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,820
When I got the call to do Dancing with
the Stars, I was super excited.

1181
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:39,840
I was like, you know what? The timing's
perfect.

1182
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:41,840
Let's see what I got on the dance floor.

1183
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,580
Well, what's the first thing you say
when you get someone new? Because you

1184
01:16:44,580 --> 01:16:46,460
someone new all the time. What's the
first thing you say?

1185
01:16:46,700 --> 01:16:49,600
You want to make sure that they're not
just doing a step, they're bringing

1186
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,780
themselves into it. Because people like
them for certain reasons.

1187
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,560
And we want to feel like Nicole in that
sound. But it's not just a step.

1188
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,240
I'm happy that my sister found who she's
really meant to be with.

1189
01:17:00,900 --> 01:17:01,900
And that's Arda.

1190
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:11,460
I don't think that the word can describe
how you make me feel.

1191
01:17:12,020 --> 01:17:13,040
Will you marry me?

1192
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:16,200
Yes.

1193
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:21,140
You all knew.

1194
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:24,780
I have found the next step in my life.

1195
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:29,460
I have a beautiful fiance and I'm living
the life I've always wanted to live.

1196
01:17:30,860 --> 01:17:32,420
Artem calms Nicole.

1197
01:17:33,100 --> 01:17:35,560
Artem has a very soothing personality.

1198
01:17:36,020 --> 01:17:38,820
And she is relaxed around Artem.

1199
01:17:39,460 --> 01:17:41,820
He brings out who my sister really is.

1200
01:17:42,220 --> 01:17:44,980
There's just something so special about
him. It's crazy.

1201
01:17:45,340 --> 01:17:47,820
And he's so open about me reconnecting
with my dad.

1202
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:52,920
I never stopped being a good father.
It's just my addiction made me stop

1203
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:56,720
here. So I promised to my God that I
would be a different man.

1204
01:17:56,940 --> 01:17:58,140
And you are, Dad.

1205
01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:05,300
I'm pregnant.

1206
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,160
No, you're not. Yes, I am. No, you're
lying.

1207
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,600
I haven't told you, but Brie told me
that she's pregnant.

1208
01:18:11,900 --> 01:18:14,480
So, hold on. Wait a second. You're both
pregnant?

1209
01:18:16,260 --> 01:18:19,480
When your stomachs were right next to
each other, they looked like two boobs.

1210
01:18:19,620 --> 01:18:20,620
Oh, yeah, because the nipples.

1211
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:24,780
You and Artem, the one thing I'll say,
your guys' excitement is so cute.

1212
01:18:25,060 --> 01:18:26,840
You guys are going to be amazing
parents.

1213
01:18:28,660 --> 01:18:31,140
I really love being...

1214
01:18:31,660 --> 01:18:36,720
This career woman who gets to be a hands
-on mom, it's the toughest job I've

1215
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,520
done and yet the most rewarding.

1216
01:18:38,980 --> 01:18:45,700
We just truly get to enjoy being hands
-on parents, not worrying about the

1217
01:18:45,700 --> 01:18:50,600
or, you know, what we do for work. We
get to totally disconnect with him and

1218
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:53,820
just get to be present with him when
we're home.

1219
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:56,180
Hmm. Yeah.

1220
01:18:57,500 --> 01:19:00,280
You want cameras, don't you, mister?

1221
01:19:03,870 --> 01:19:06,670
Now I'm an entrepreneur with Brie.

1222
01:19:08,410 --> 01:19:10,910
I love running companies. I love being
creative.

1223
01:19:11,870 --> 01:19:13,510
I love being in the wine industry.

1224
01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:19,390
So for us to move to Napa Valley meant
we were just going to blossom one of our

1225
01:19:19,390 --> 01:19:21,110
other companies the way we did in
wrestling.

1226
01:19:21,970 --> 01:19:25,890
You know, the one thing in WWE is you
learned about branding. So we wanted to

1227
01:19:25,890 --> 01:19:29,550
take that into the business world. I
love how it says Bella's.

1228
01:19:29,900 --> 01:19:32,980
It's, like, clean. I love it. It's
really cool.

1229
01:19:33,540 --> 01:19:34,540
So what?

1230
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:35,780
You like it, huh?

1231
01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:38,280
This is why Mama wanted to make it.

1232
01:19:40,660 --> 01:19:44,460
I think people are shocked because if
you come into our lives here in Napa

1233
01:19:44,460 --> 01:19:48,440
Valley, you realize that we have just a
simple, very normal day -to -day life.

1234
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:49,900
Can you say hi, Daddy?

1235
01:19:50,220 --> 01:19:55,020
My sister and I joke about this all the
time, but we understand way back in the

1236
01:19:55,020 --> 01:19:57,240
day when pretty much all families lived
together.

1237
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:02,120
Because it does take a village to raise
a child. And I've been really blessed.

1238
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,800
Nicole and I have always figured out a
way to live by each other because we

1239
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,440
realized life's just easier.

1240
01:20:07,820 --> 01:20:14,780
I couldn't imagine being in Napa living
life without my sister and her family

1241
01:20:14,780 --> 01:20:15,780
across the street.

1242
01:20:15,820 --> 01:20:17,560
It's never boring. It's just straight
out.

1243
01:20:21,700 --> 01:20:25,160
Arden and I got very little decision
making in this.

1244
01:20:25,550 --> 01:20:27,010
And this whole move to Napa.

1245
01:20:28,170 --> 01:20:31,070
Yeah. It is crazy to think about.

1246
01:20:31,290 --> 01:20:35,770
And all of a sudden it occurred to me,
if I die, I can be replaced.

1247
01:20:36,210 --> 01:20:37,610
She can't replace Nicole.

1248
01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:44,950
2022, the Bellas would be back.

1249
01:20:46,150 --> 01:20:48,370
Oh, my gosh.

1250
01:20:49,650 --> 01:20:53,130
Reed, this just made it so much more
real. And we're back.

1251
01:20:53,870 --> 01:20:54,930
Fellas are back, baby.

1252
01:20:56,450 --> 01:21:00,510
It's so funny because I feel like I've
told everyone I retired like seven times

1253
01:21:00,510 --> 01:21:04,770
already. And I keep coming back for
these little matches. But I will say

1254
01:21:04,770 --> 01:21:05,770
one's special.

1255
01:21:06,630 --> 01:21:10,950
My daughter, Birdie, was like, Mom, I
really want to go see you wrestle.

1256
01:21:11,470 --> 01:21:15,150
And in my head, I'm thinking, I don't
know the next time WWE is going to call

1257
01:21:15,150 --> 01:21:16,810
and ask me to come again.

1258
01:21:17,130 --> 01:21:19,950
Like, you just never know. I mean, the
last time I wrestled was Evolution.

1259
01:21:20,550 --> 01:21:21,970
That was three years ago.

1260
01:21:22,390 --> 01:21:25,730
We're here to celebrate, but we are here
to prove something, you know.

1261
01:21:26,150 --> 01:21:28,190
Prove that the Bellas are back.

1262
01:21:28,730 --> 01:21:30,410
We're forced to be reckoned with.

1263
01:21:31,190 --> 01:21:33,850
And that, I don't know, we're still
amongst the best.

1264
01:21:34,510 --> 01:21:36,870
There's also that feeling of like, will
I be accepted?

1265
01:21:37,270 --> 01:21:38,610
Like, of who I am now.

1266
01:21:39,310 --> 01:21:43,530
I told her, it's different. After you
have kids, different.

1267
01:21:45,210 --> 01:21:46,210
Woo!

1268
01:21:46,970 --> 01:21:50,150
Tomorrow, I'll be in my jersey, my
snapback, my kicks.

1269
01:21:51,870 --> 01:21:53,990
Running out so you can look, but you
can't touch.

1270
01:22:01,870 --> 01:22:07,110
Putting on my gear for the first time
since having a baby made me a bit

1271
01:22:07,110 --> 01:22:11,550
insecure, and I kind of had to fight
myself. Like, do I look like I'm

1272
01:22:11,550 --> 01:22:13,730
up as Nikki Bella, or do I look like
Nikki Bella?

1273
01:22:16,030 --> 01:22:20,930
Rewarn me. She goes, when you become a
mom, you can't expect to be who you

1274
01:22:21,480 --> 01:22:24,940
You're someone new, and you have to
accept that and find who she is.

1275
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,120
And I finally found myself.

1276
01:22:28,700 --> 01:22:32,120
But then putting my gear back on, that
was tough.

1277
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:34,540
That was really tough.

1278
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:42,500
The following is the 30 -woman Royal
Rumble Match!

1279
01:22:44,300 --> 01:22:45,300
Whoa!

1280
01:22:47,140 --> 01:22:49,480
Bella Army, rejoice!

1281
01:22:50,250 --> 01:22:54,270
What happened to Bella Twins, the Hall
of Famer, Divas Champion?

1282
01:22:54,630 --> 01:22:57,310
She was in the first Royal Rumble 2018.

1283
01:22:58,090 --> 01:23:01,330
We're talking about not having friends,
eliminated by her sister, if you

1284
01:23:01,330 --> 01:23:02,330
remember.

1285
01:23:02,410 --> 01:23:03,410
Oh, wow.

1286
01:23:04,010 --> 01:23:07,750
To go back out to the WWE Universe.

1287
01:23:08,310 --> 01:23:11,030
Brie Bella in full -blown Brie mode.

1288
01:23:11,490 --> 01:23:13,770
To hear the yes chant.

1289
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:17,720
In front of my daughter.

1290
01:23:17,980 --> 01:23:20,540
And listen, listen to this place.

1291
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:21,940
The crowd here at St.

1292
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:23,220
Louis loving it.

1293
01:23:23,780 --> 01:23:25,100
It was really incredible.

1294
01:23:26,460 --> 01:23:29,020
Bella Hall is going to be on their feet
now.

1295
01:23:29,380 --> 01:23:35,840
Many thought we would never, ever see
again Nikki Bella making her entrance

1296
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:37,540
the Women's Royal Rumble match.

1297
01:23:38,100 --> 01:23:40,580
Oh, great physical condition.

1298
01:23:43,020 --> 01:23:45,840
When I saw Ronda Rousey come out, it's
like, all right.

1299
01:23:47,150 --> 01:23:48,170
We're out of here.

1300
01:23:48,730 --> 01:23:54,170
So I'm going to take Nikki out with
pleasure, with a big smile on my face.

1301
01:23:57,610 --> 01:24:02,310
Okay, I got to give it to Brie. You
know, Brie taking me out of the rumble,

1302
01:24:02,430 --> 01:24:08,970
it felt pretty good. I had to eliminate
Nikki in the Royal Rumble because

1303
01:24:08,970 --> 01:24:10,830
revenge is a bitch.

1304
01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:15,880
It's always been me getting the one up
on her, and nothing made it feel more

1305
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:21,920
full circle for me than Brie getting her
one up on me. It made it pretty iconic,

1306
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:23,740
and it felt so good.

1307
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:29,920
The Bellas have become huge role models
for everyone everywhere.

1308
01:24:30,780 --> 01:24:35,080
To see the things that they've
accomplished within the business, for

1309
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:39,240
business, and now outside of the
business is truly impressive.

1310
01:24:40,030 --> 01:24:44,510
They're driven by passion and the things
that they love and are interested in.

1311
01:24:44,570 --> 01:24:45,650
They don't fake anything.

1312
01:24:46,070 --> 01:24:50,630
They're showing and inspiring women
around the world that you can dream big

1313
01:24:50,630 --> 01:24:53,050
sometimes it works out and sometimes it
doesn't, but you've got to keep

1314
01:24:53,050 --> 01:24:57,910
fighting. Please welcome to the WWE Hall
of Fame, Nikki and Brie Bella.

1315
01:24:59,070 --> 01:25:01,730
I feel blessed of the next step in my
life.

1316
01:25:03,130 --> 01:25:04,730
But wrestling will never be done.

1317
01:25:05,230 --> 01:25:08,290
That door will always be open. That will
always be home.

1318
01:25:08,970 --> 01:25:10,290
And I will always make a comeback.

1319
01:25:12,050 --> 01:25:14,150
We are part of WWE history.

1320
01:25:14,970 --> 01:25:21,090
And let me tell you, when you fight for
something and it is recognized, that is

1321
01:25:21,090 --> 01:25:22,870
the ultimate feeling you can get.