{"id":290740,"date":"2020-04-10T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1139263"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:15:00","slug":"heres-how-nikki-and-brie-bellas-estranged-father-reacts-to-the-news-theyre-writing-an-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/heres-how-nikki-and-brie-bellas-estranged-father-reacts-to-the-news-theyre-writing-an-autobiography\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Nikki and Brie Bella&#8217;s Estranged Father Reacts to the News They&#8217;re Writing an Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202039\/rs_600x600-200409140814-total-bellas-503-nikki-bella-ac2.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=\"43.642431466031\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30.359952324195\">\n<p>Awkward!<\/p>\n<p>Twin sisters <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nikki_bella\">Nikki Bella<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brie_bella\">Brie Bella<\/a><\/strong> are writing a co-memoir about their early lives, and when Brie tries to deliver the news to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_bellas\/news\/1137939\/awkward-watch-nikki-bella-s-dad-grill-artem-chigvintsev-about-their-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their estranged father<\/a> on the all-new <em>Total Bellas<\/em>, it doesn&#8217;t exactly go&nbsp;over well.<\/p>\n<p>When their dad, <strong>Jon Garcia<\/strong>, asks what the book will be about, Brie says &#8220;our life\u2014childhood to kind of, like, now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all have a past but we&#8217;re living for today and the future,&#8221; Jon responds. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not that man [I was] 18 years ago. I&#8217;m a whole different man today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brie reacts to the remark in a confessional,&nbsp;explaining that she almost immediately regretted mentioning the memoir.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being here at lunch, I thought maybe I could kind of bring up the book. But when I brought it up, I could tell he [was] like, &#8216;Oh wow, you&#8217;re making a book,'&#8221; she says, adding that her father just &#8220;kind of disregarded it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.637019230769\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.653846153846\">\n<p>Brie continues, &#8220;Just feeling the tension made me feel like, okay, this isn&#8217;t the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conversation about the book quickly wraps up, with Jon&nbsp;getting the last word in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is who I am now,&#8221; he tells Brie and Nikki. &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about me now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the entire exchange in the above clip, and watch Wednesday&#8217;s <em>Total Bellas<\/em> to see how&nbsp;Nikki and Bella are dealing with&nbsp;not just their dad, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/total_bellas\/news\/1137876\/brie-bella-s-mom-feels-betrayed-by-her-mended-relationship-with-her-father-on-total-bellas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their mom<\/a> too!<\/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 <i>Total Bellas<\/i> Thursday at 9 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1139263\/here-s-how-nikki-and-brie-bella-s-estranged-father-reacts-to-the-news-they-re-writing-an-autobiography?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>Awkward! Twin sisters Nikki Bella and Brie Bella are writing a co-memoir about their early lives, and when Brie tries to deliver the news to their estranged father on the all-new Total Bellas, it doesn&#8217;t exactly go&nbsp;over well. 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