Nikki Garcia has damaged her silence.
opening up for the primary time about her cut up from Artem Chigvintsev.
Practically two weeks after Garcia and Chigvintsev finalized their divorce — and likewise agreed to maneuver previous their twin restraining orders so as to signal these papers — the Complete Bellas star hosted a brand new version of her podcast.
“I’ve been heartbroken,” the 41-year previous mentioned in the course of the December 2 episode of The Nikki & Brie Present.
“You dream of getting this household and you’ve got this unbelievable love, and it simply goes the opposite method. You go from having an amazing love story to having a horrible one.”
Garcia’s candid revelations got here three months after the Dancing With the Stars skilled — who shares 4-year-old son Matteo with the WWE wrestler — was arrested on a suspicion of felony home violence cost, though he was by no means formally charged.
“I’m going to attempt my greatest to not get too emotional on this episode,” Nikki instructed her sister on air.
“However I first need to simply thank everybody, the listeners, you, household, mates, coworkers, folks I haven’t talked to in a very long time, only for all of the love and assist, for the respect of privateness and house.”
Nikki instructed listeners that the previous few months have “been actually powerful” … and defined her absence from the highlight because of this.
“I disconnected from social media, from the world, and I simply knew that I wanted to disconnect as a result of first issues first, I’m a mother and my son’s safety and privateness is an important,” she mentioned.
“I used to be going to do no matter it took for that the majority importantly, after which simply needing house for therapeutic, for going through trauma head-on.”
Again in August, Chigvintsev was arrested for home battery and booked on a felony home violence cost following an obvious altercation together with his spouse in Napa.
One week later, they each filed for divorce, with Garcia in search of full custody of their son.
Nikki is aware of she owes her followers her aspect of the story, but additionally desires to make certain she’s placing her little one above the whole lot else.
“I’ve been so shocked, like past phrases, and it’s been heartbreaking,” she mentioned on this podcast. “You lose your urge for food, you cry so much. After which I additionally stepped up and made positive the whole lot was okay for Matteo. And so it’s simply been… I don’t even know what different phrases to make use of.”
In conclusion?
“The one factor that I’ve realized disconnecting from the world, it’s when you already know the reality, nothing else issues. So when a few of you’ll come to me and inform me what folks had been saying or what was on the market, it might have an effect on me indirectly, however as a result of I do know the reality, and I really lived it, it didn’t have an enormous impact on me.
“All I must do is deal with my therapeutic. I must deal with Matteo’s therapeutic.”
