John Cena Posts Cryptic Message About Love After Nikki Bella Says She's 'Happy' He's Moving On
John Cena is dolling out some advice on love.
The professional wrestler and Blockers actor, 41 — who’s engagement to Total Bellas star Nikki Bella ended last summer — shared a message about the search for romance to his 11.5 million Twitter followers on Wednesday.
“Instead of trying to find the right person, try to be the right person,” Cena said in his tweet, advising his readers to search within before looking beyond. “Get to a point where you love yourself, and you might be surprised at the company you choose to keep”
Cena’s message comes weeks after he was seen out and about in Vancouver, holding hands with a mystery woman later identified as Shay Shariatzadeh.
Shariatzadeh is a project manager for Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions tech company, and has been employed at the Vancouver-based company since 2015, according to E! News, who first identified her.
Nikki, 35, recently opened up about seeing the news about Cena and Shariatzadeh’s apparent coupling.
On the latest episode of her podcast with twin sister Brie, The Bellas Podcast, Nikki said that she was glad to see that Cena had moved on. “As long as John is happy, I’m happy,” she said.
While Nikki said she and Cena remain on good terms, she confessed that when she first saw a headline about the photos, her “stomach went into knots.”
She also admitted she felt bad about how her breakup with Cena was portrayed on her reality show Total Bellas.
“When [I] film the reality shows, you guys only get to see so much. So one thing that I thought was kind of unfair for John was you saw a very small amount on our reality show about our breakup and of course it was pro-me, because it was coming through my eyes,” Nikki explained. “It made me sad for John. I felt bad for John. I felt bad because I felt like I embarrassed him, I felt like I disappointed him, and I have to live with a lot of that stuff.”
“Because of how sad I made him and how much I felt like I hurt him, when I saw the big smile on his face with the paparazzi photos [with Shariatzadeh], I think that’s why I didn’t want to s— my pants,” she continued. “I felt happy for him. I am very happy for him.”
Ultimately, Nikki said that she wants both of them to be content.
“John is an amazing man, and you know what? Our timing wasn’t right,” she said on her podcast. “Who knows? Can the timing be right for us in the future? Maybe, maybe not. Are we right for other people? Maybe.”
“I think when you’re on a reality show and you put your love out there, we get judged on it so hard. People only see us together. But … I have to follow my heart, I have to follow my feelings,” she continued. “If I’m not happy in a situation, I have to get out of it. Him the same.”
“Let’s just let people be happy,” she urged.
