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Is this a one off or she here to stay? Well, keep tuning in. This is the Nicki and Bri show. All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Nicki and Brie Show. And you all saw me as number 30 at the Royal Rumble on Netflix this past weekend. So you know what? We are going to make this a fearless Nicki episode. So since the last episode was a Bree solo, I know you all are craving a Nicki solo. So here we go. Go. All of your social interaction and interaction in Indianapolis, at the airports, in the live crowd has been so incredible. So I thought I would take over the Nikki and Bree show today solely to, of course, talk about my return to the WWE ring this past Saturday at the Royal Rumble. Oh, my goodness. Where do we begin? Of course, we do have a ton of voicemails. Thank you all for calling in. They all have been so incredible. So we picked around 9 to 10 to see what we could get to today. So we're definitely going to get to those voicemails in a bit. I always love hearing your voice. Let's just, let's talk about being Nikki Bella again. I mean, you know what's so funny about the rumbles because this is my third one. And I have to say, what's crazy is sometimes these rumbles, it. They. They go so fast and you only have a moment to get back into character. And for a lot of us that come back on returning, it's like sometimes you haven't been who you are in that WWE ring for years and years and, you know, you get faced with, do I come out as a heel? A baby face? Do. Do I just smile? Who. Who am I? And it's crazy because every time, and I felt it this time around, it's like you don't have those reps and it almost feels hard to get into that character, like the character that you want. And so it's always like, go out and be yourself, but you really want to deliver to the fans something special. And then also, what were the moments that we just saw in the ring before my number got hit. But it's just been so amazing. You know, I could finally talk about my three weeks leading up to it. I. The days that I didn't have Mateo, I would like drop them off and go straight to the airport and catch a flight to Orlando. And I would train for two to three nights at the PC. I did that two weeks straight. And then I was able to get to Tampa to train with Nadi and in her Heart Dungeon 2.0 twice with just incredible people from the Indies. Independent wrestling, for the ones who don't know that term, we use that a lot in wrestling. And it was just amazing. Being in there the past three weeks. I couldn't believe, like, how much my body remembered, but how much I was loving it, how I didn't need to take Tylenol every day. I was like, wow, I'm really just adapting to this Quick. And it was just really making me excited for this return because I do know there's a lot of rumors on the Internet, is this a one off or she here to stay? Well, keep tuning in because you will see another fearless Nikki appearance sooner than later, that is for sure. But I'm definitely doing more than what I just did Saturday, so I'm continuing to train. And it's just I have felt so empowered and alive in certain ways. And honestly, the, like, the most important thing that I've been getting back that I realize I've lost for so many years, which is unlike me and I never would have thought I lost it, but is definitely my confidence. And what's incredible is to train with someone like Natty, who all my total diva fans, you know that I've been close with Natty since even before the birth of total divas. It's literally been since I joined wrestling in 2007. So it's been a really long time that we've been super close. Nadi and I am Bri, we've all been through so much together. So this time around, preparing for this run, Nadia has been just already such a key piece for me because she knows me best when it comes to wrestling. She knows my personality, she knows how I move. And the one thing she picked up on quick was like, we need to work on getting your confidence back. And I told her like that. The past few years, I've really have lost that. I've lost confidence in myself, feeling great about myself. And that was a big part of being Nikki Bella was. She was. She oozed confidence. I went out there and I felt sexy and strong and confident and you couldn't break me. Even if I was going to lose, I was going to make it look damn good. And I felt so good about it. And that is definitely a piece of me that is lost. And as I've been training these past three weeks, I've slowly been getting it back. And it's made me even more excited for this run because I've realized more than ever, I need it. For me personally, as I've said before on this show, we're these characters, but we're these characters for decades, and they're a part of us. We bring them to life, of who we are, and then these characters stay, you know, as a piece of our heart. They stay in us. And so that is one thing that I know that I need and I'm getting back is that confidence. And I need that in her. And I felt that it was so cute because before my music hit at 30 and I walked out, Natty came running into Gorilla. And one thing she was teaching me when I was training, to help build my confidence, because she saw where I lacked and the earmuffs for. For I'm about to cuss. But she's like, you need to find your you. And I was like, you're right. And she goes, when you're. When you're hitting your moves, when you're hitting your forearms, because, oh, when I was working these independent wrestlers, we do, like, mini matches and whatnot, and she's like, you really need to find that inner you, like, so you can deliver, so you can be who you were. So she comes running into Gorilla, like, as it's on, like, counting down to 10, and she literally grabs me and she goes, go give them your fuck. You go find it. And, oh, my God, it's gonna make me cry. It was, like, such a moment with Nadia. Nadia is the most incredible person you'll ever meet. She's just such a key part of WWE and the women's division. But so right when my music hit, then I feel like I gave too much of a serious face because I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go find my fuck you. And I did. I found my inner fuck you. And I'm excited to find that more as I do more in the ring at WWE and as I train to find more of getting my confidence back, because I really want. I didn't fully have it back even, you know, I don't have it fully back. It's definitely a work in progress. And that's what I'm really excited for, is that by the time I walk away or during the. During the middle of this journey or even. It's at the beginning that I feel so confident about myself and who I am and my character and everything I'm doing just like before. And it's really neat to find those pieces of this. And this is exactly what I've been yearning for and what I've been wanting. I think now I've realized why, for so long, I was craving to get back in the ring. And it's because big pieces of me have just been missing and now it's time to put them back together. So I want to give a big shout out to Natty. Natty, I love you. Thank you so much. I couldn't have walked out super fierce on that entrance without you. And I'm definitely on my way to finding my you, Natty. But she's incredible. I'm going to be dropping more and more wrestling videos on my socials from practicing. It's crazy because, you know, I've already seen the first week of being a little rusty and where I got to the third week. And it'll be really, really interesting to do all this and hopefully Brie mode will be by my side soon. More on that to come. So the gear. When I did the last Royal Rumble two years ago, I think I talked about on this show. But I had an issue with gear that was made and I literally had to overnight five dollar Amazon shorts George to the hotel and wear an old jersey. The sizing got all wrong and I even had stuff where we measured. Anyways, it was a big mess. And that is why my year, the second time I did the Rumble, my gear was just not it. I was just freaking out. And especially I was. I mean, Mateo was one and a half or two, but like, really not feeling it. And then having your gear be too small, you're just like, no. It was like worst nightmare. So I just knew I had to make this one right. Like, make a statement, you know, make it me. But elevated me. Like, what's the modern day Nikki Bella? So I worked with the designer. He's incredible. He's worked with a lot of the girls in the locker room, so we had a lot of fun piecing things together. I felt really beautiful. But I will say, last minute, I got a little insecure about my stomach. Crazy. And so that's what made me. I was like, I'm going to get my Gwen Stefani on her. Paige has actually done this too. And so I pulled up my fishnets and I was like, you know what? This looks fashionable. Everyone said it looked really hot. So that's what gave me that look. But it actually was a very fun, modern day Nikki Bella look. And then of course, I had a rock old mosh Nike kicks. The shoes that I wore were actually the shoes that I wore for the Evolution pay per View against Rhonda. It was when I did the mock Louis Vuitton pattern. But of course, instead of LVs, they were BN. So I love that. I always I'm a type of person that I trained in those. And if I don't get training time in shoes, I can't rock them. I just won't be able to deliver. Oh, and then we need to just talk about that entrance. That was the longest, some of you will know as a catwalk run to the ring or just. It was just a really long walk. That is why I don't know if they even told you guys. Probably Michael Cole said it, but usually it's 90 seconds in between each number. But because it was so long to get to the ring, they had to make it two minutes. It was crazy. I. Everyone was like, are we running? Do we walk some? Then we run. Because it's like if you were to, like, we were practicing, like, if you were to run that, like, you can get out of breath by the time you get to the ring. So it was really crazy how long that was. But how incredible is Netflix's production? It's unreal. Like, just seeing the difference on Monday Night Raw. Now, the pay per views, the production quality, like, you didn't think it could get any better. It is insane. And so I see that shot they did with. It looks like you're almost running almost on top of everyone's heads. But I was like, okay, that was a cool camera shot. I get why they have it so long. It looked so good.