Nikki Bella trained with Natalya at the Hart Dungeon before her return at the 2025 WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view event. Nikki later credited Natalya with helping her find her “f*ck you.”
During a recent appearance on the “Insight” podcast, Natalya praised Nikki’s passion and shared memories of their time together. She said,
“Nikki actually has been coming and training with me privately. So she flies in every week, and she’s been coming and working with me. I will tell you that she hasn’t lost it; she has so much passion for this. It’s funny because I saw her last week. She came to Tampa, and I said to her, This is so funny because we started our careers together in the very same week, Nikki and I and Brie. So we started together in the same week in developmental in WWE, and I remember when all three of us had nothing. All three of us were hired at the very base amount of pay, and it was never, ever about the money. It was always about the work, the passion. So we were just laughing and sharing old stories.
She continued, “I didn’t have enough money to buy wrestling gear, so The Bella Twins were giving me their clothes,” she reflected. “Because when you just get started, you’re just kind of literally just getting started. I went to Florida with this one suitcase because I was like, I gotta get down to Florida, I’ll just leave everything behind. I’ll get back to Calgary. I never went back to live [in Calgary] because my whole life with WWE has been kind of stateside as far as living, but I didn’t have money for a lot of the things that we need to look like superstars. So The Bella Twins, they were giving me their clothes. They were giving me stuff to look nice. I was taking certain things that they had and I was cutting them up and glueing my own sequins on them, and trying to make it. I look back on that now I’m like Nattie you look like sh*t, pardon my language. But I was like, I wouldn’t have hired you looking like that, because you look horrible, but you do what you have to do. I just remember those early years with the twins.”
