Nikki Bella Addresses Recent Comments Made by Wade Barrett, Barrett Responds – On The Nikki & Brie Show podcast this week, Nikki Bella spoke regarding Barrett’s commentary on Sunday’s Clash in Paris PLE pre-show, where in his role as a heel, Barrett suggested that WWE’s women’s division may have passed Bella by in the years since she last regularly competed in the ring.
Bella said:
“I would love to have a conversation with Wade Barrett, and he avoided me on Monday [at WWE Raw] which was shocking because he always comes up and says hi to me, and he tried to avoid making eye contact with me in the hallway.”
Bella went on to note that she understands that as a heel, Barrett has a certain role to play, but implied that his comments on the pre-show crossed a line:
“I understand when you want to be a heel commentator and stuff, but then there’s one thing of like… Michael Cole does this beautifully, and this is why Michael Cole is one of the greatest commentators. He knows how to take a life story and put it into what we do, because that is real. We don’t go out there as robots or superheroes. We’re actually professional athletes and we go through real things and we have to make that part of it.”
“Honestly, that stuff doesn’t bother me because I get it. Like, I was watching the pre-show and I saw what Wade was saying about me in the pre-show, and I was sitting there getting ready in the locker room like, oh, okay. That’s fine.“
Barrett responded to Bella in a social media post on X and denied that he avoided Bella at Raw, and wished that she had told him about the situation privately rather than on her show. Barrett posted:
I had no idea Nicole felt this way, and I’m happy to have this ‘conversation’ any time she likes. I wish she’d brought it up when we said hello to each other at Raw, rather than via her podcast. I don’t understand the avoiding claim at all, simply not true.
Nikki Bella Addresses Recent Comments Made by Wade Barrett, Barrett Responds
