{"id":282990,"date":"2019-11-05T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1089680"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:30:56","slug":"nia-jax-opens-up-to-nikki-bella-about-her-knee-injury-tonight-on-total-divas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nia-jax-opens-up-to-nikki-bella-about-her-knee-injury-tonight-on-total-divas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nia Jax Opens Up to Nikki Bella About Her Knee Injury Tonight on Total Divas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019105\/rs_600x600-191105070959-600NikkiBella-TotalDivas906.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"text-1\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.507132667618\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.940085592011\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nikki_bella\">Nikki Bella<\/a><\/strong>, it&#8217;s been too long!<\/p>\n<p>The beloved WWE superstar, entrepreneur and E! personality returns to <em>Total Divas<\/em> tonight. And though we suspect Nikki&#8217;s cameo has something to do with her and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brie_bella\">Brie Bella<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s first major Birdiebee fashion show (<em>Total Bellas<\/em> fans caught an initial glimpse of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_bellas\/news\/1014770\/see-brie-bella-get-emotional-after-accidentally-kicking-a-wwe-competitor-in-the-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the catwalk action<\/a> last season), the retired pro wrestler turns her focus to longtime friend and former coworker <strong>Nia Jax<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sKYKmM4_Mk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this preview clip<\/a> from Tuesday&#8217;s new episode.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I was you, like, a year-and-a-half ago,&#8221; she tells Jax, who has been struggling with her physical wellness for quite some time (during last week&#8217;s Total Divas, the RAW star received medical confirmation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_divas\/videos\/298068\/sonya-is-scared-of-the-next-step-total-divas-recap-s9-ep5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a serious ACL injury<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64.280116110305\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.232220609579\">\n<p>Being that Nikki weathered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_divas\/news\/733675\/total-divas-star-nikki-bella-to-undergo-neck-surgery-find-out-if-she-ll-be-returning-to-the-wwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of neck injuries<\/a> herself throughout the duration of her WWE contract and ultimately left the ring for good earlier this year because of them, she has wisdom to share on this front.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about those parts of her life most heavily impacted by bodily trauma, the Bella Twin recalled, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just my physical health, it was my mental health.&#8221; And it sounds like that resonates with Nia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have kind of lost myself\u2026lost myself in the pain,&#8221; she admits, explaining to the confessional camera later that amid five years of &#8220;nonstop&#8221; wrestling, &#8220;In some way, I&#8217;ve lost who I am. You know, what makes me me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hear more from Nikki tonight on&nbsp;<em>Total Divas<\/em>!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <i>Total Divas<\/i> Tuesday at 10 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1089680\/nia-jax-opens-up-to-nikki-bella-about-her-knee-injury-tonight-on-total-divas?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>Nikki Bella, it&#8217;s been too long! The beloved WWE superstar, entrepreneur and E! personality returns to Total Divas tonight. And though we suspect Nikki&#8217;s cameo has something to do with her and Brie Bella&#8216;s first major Birdiebee fashion show (Total Bellas fans caught an initial glimpse of the catwalk action last season), the retired pro [&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-282990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 13:46:28","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\/282990","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=282990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}