Brie Bella on her WWE status: “I know my roadblock is the fact my husband is with the rival company”
While speaking on her podcast, Brie Bella commented on not returning to WWE television in the summer of 2025 with sister Nikki. Brie stated that her “roadblock” is husband Bryan Danielson working for AEW…
“Someone like me—two kids—you can look at me and see my career and how I am. I’ve definitely had roadblocks. And I think what’s important, especially when I look at this soft girl era, is to look at your roadblocks. For some people who don’t have kids, your roadblocks can be different. It might be something happening at your work, or a family situation, or living situation, or finances—whatever it is. For me, I look at time. Time I like to spend. So, my kids and my husband come first, and then I start to bullet everything after—how I put my schedule together, what I want out of life. And I call them roadblocks because sometimes it’s like, ‘Oh, I wish everything would just be perfectly like this.’ But life is not perfect. And no one’s going to listen to your perfect, wishful schedule. So, something I’ve really done in the last, I would say, year is focus on the importance of my roadblocks and the signs that they give me.
For example, let’s just be open. As of late, there’s been what I can kind of consider a roadblock—but it’s also a good sign. And that’s where I make a joke, because when I’ve been on red carpets or in interviews, there’s one question I constantly get asked: ‘When will we see you back in the ring?’—as if I have that power. And I always make a joke, because when I’m in interviews, I don’t want to ever answer something serious. Usually it’s a quick question and they need a quick answer. So I have constantly made the joke: ‘Oh, waiting on the call,’ which in some ways can be true, and in some ways I’m just saying something cheeky and sweet so I can get on to the next question.
But what I wanted to bring up—because I feel like something that’s important in these solo episodes is to really open up to all of you what I’m going through—so it can help some of you. When I look at that, I know my roadblock is the fact my husband is with the rival company. And, you know, for some people it makes them uncomfortable at WWE, thinking I would be there when my husband’s with AEW. And you know what? That’s okay. I’ve kind of looked at that roadblock as: people have the right to feel. If people feel uncomfortable, they’re uncomfortable. And that’s okay. They have that right. Does it bum me out at times that I wish their feelings were different? Absolutely. But it doesn’t make me angry, and it doesn’t make me bitter. It makes me be like—that right there is a sign that I’m supposed to be staying in my soft girl era. When I was thinking about my summer, all I wanted was to have July off. It’s like I manifested it. It’s like the angels heard, and they gave it to me. And I look at these signs, and I know I’m living my purpose—because I’m so open to what my purpose is and needs to be.”
“So when constantly people are like, ‘When’s Brie coming back? When’s Brie coming back to wrestling?’ You know guys, it it might not be in my era right now.”