Nikki Garcia (fka Bella) filed for divorce from Artem Chigvintsev after a home violence incident in late August. Nikki requested for privateness for her household (together with their 4 year-old son Matteo) throughout that point.
Garcia returned to The Nikki & Brie Show immediately to speak about this heartbreaking scenario:
“The previous few months 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. So I used to be gonna do no matter it took for that, most significantly.
And then simply, needing area for therapeutic, for dealing with trauma head-on. All of that. So, it’s been robust. It’s been actually robust. I’ve been heartbroken, unhappy. You dream of getting this household, and you’ve got this unbelievable love, and it simply goes the opposite manner. And you go from having a fantastic love story to having a horrible one. Never noticed any of it coming, so far as what the ending could be, so it’s simply been a battle…it’s been so heartbreaking. And I didn’t know that your coronary heart can break that many instances in such a brief time frame.
…It’s surprising. I’ve been simply so shocked. You sit there and also you go, I shared my life with this particular person. I assumed it was so completely different. And simply to see what somebody can do…I’ve been so shocked, like past phrases. And it’s been heartbreaking. You lose your urge for food, you cry quite a bit. And then I additionally stepped up and made certain all the pieces was okay for Matteo. And so, it’s simply been, I don’t even know what different phrases to make use of.”
When Nikki was requested about how she handled all of the lies being informed about her within the media, Nikki mentioned this example helped her notice that she doesn’t give a shit what different folks assume, and that her focus must be on her son:
“For me, this entire scenario’s been actually simply arduous to wrap my head round it. Like, I by no means would have thought. You couldn’t have informed me how the ending of my 2024 would have been, I might have thought you have been loopy.
But the one factor I spotted disconnecting from the world, when the reality, nothing else issues. When a few of you’d come to me and inform me what folks have been saying or what was on the market, it will have an effect on me indirectly, however as a result of I do know the reality and I truly lived it, it didn’t have an enormous impact on me. Because folks weren’t there that day. People don’t know what I’ve gone by, what I’m going by.
And you’re at all times going to have folks simply assume issues and say issues, after which after they get fed lies, you’re gonna have folks additionally consider issues. All I have to do is give attention to my therapeutic. I have to give attention to Matteo’s therapeutic. I want to consider the longer term…how am I going to verify everyone seems to be okay?”
Nikki admitted that her relationship was in hassle lengthy earlier than all of this occurred:
“When it got here to our relationship, it’s unhappy, prefer it simply hasn’t been nice for a very long time. And I actually performed it up like issues have been quite a bit higher than what they have been within the public eye, which I’ve regrets in that…I didn’t need to have one other failed public relationship.
And greater than any of that, take it away, I wished it for Matteo. It at all times comes again to him. You battle to your youngsters, proper? You need to stick collectively as a result of that’s what the youngsters need, proper? And I attempted actually arduous. And we each simply, ultimately, we weren’t bringing one of the best out in one another. And we should always have most likely walked away a very long time in the past so ultimately what occurred, wouldn’t have occurred.”
Nikki additionally talked concerning the difficulties of co-parenting and being away from her son as a part of that association. Overall, although, she is optimistic concerning the nice job she and Artem are doing in that function, and she or he plans to crush it in 2025.
You can try The Nikki & Brie Show if you wish to hear Nikki’s full ideas on her divorce, co-parenting, and what the longer term seems to be like.
