{"id":281221,"date":"2019-10-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1079434"},"modified":"2019-10-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:00:00","slug":"nattie-neidhart-remembers-her-late-father-on-moms-birthday-my-dad-is-really-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nattie-neidhart-remembers-her-late-father-on-moms-birthday-my-dad-is-really-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nattie Neidhart Remembers Her Late Father on Mom&#8217;s Birthday: &#8220;My Dad Is Really With Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201993\/rs_600x600-191003124844-600NattieNeidhart-TD902.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.665362035225\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27.150684931507\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nattie_neidhart\">Nattie Neidhart<\/a><\/strong> eats adversaries for breakfast in the arena, but grief is a ruthless rival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time in 40 years that my mom and dad have not celebrated their birthdays together,&#8221; says the second-generation WWE star in this clip from Tuesday&#8217;s new <em>Total Divas<\/em>. So, even though she planned a party for her mother <strong>Elizabeth Hart<\/strong> and is currently leading a toast with b-day cake in hand, Nattie can&#8217;t help but feel like something is missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, my dad is really with us,&#8221; she continues, addressing a crowd of guests while Elizabeth stands beside her. Despite the occasion, both women are on the verge of tears. &#8220;We just\u2026it hasn&#8217;t really been that long without him. It&#8217;s only been a few months,&#8221; Nattie explains. &#8220;But this is for you, Mommy. Happy Birthday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nattie&#8217;s father, pro wrestling legend <strong>Jim &#8220;The Anvil&#8221; Neidhart<\/strong>, passed away unexpectedly in Aug. 2018 (excerpts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_divas\/news\/991427\/nattie-neidhart-s-eulogy-for-late-father-jim-the-anvil-neidhart-will-move-you-to-tears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from his funeral<\/a> appeared in <em>Total&nbsp;Divas<\/em>&#8216; season eight finale last year). He would have been 64 years old the following February.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.342105263158\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.578947368421\">\n<p>During Elizabeth&#8217;s birthday toast, party patron <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/trinity_fatu\">Trinity Fatu<\/a><\/strong> can sense her friend&#8217;s overwhelm and pulls Nattie aside after the fact to see how she&#8217;s really doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really wish he was here. Even this party doesn&#8217;t feel right without him,&#8221; Nattie tells her, crying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s here with you,&#8221; Trinity counters, echoing her friend&#8217;s own statement from earlier. &#8220;Just in another way that you&#8217;re not used to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See how their conversation wraps up in the clip above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <em>Total Divas<\/em> Tuesday at 10 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1079434\/nattie-neidhart-remembers-her-late-father-on-mom-s-birthday-my-dad-is-really-with-us?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nattie Neidhart eats adversaries for breakfast in the arena, but grief is a ruthless rival. &#8220;This is the first time in 40 years that my mom and dad have not celebrated their birthdays together,&#8221; says the second-generation WWE star in this clip from Tuesday&#8217;s new Total Divas. So, even though she planned a party for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-18 17:11:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}