-- Kathy Colace, the mother of WWE Hall of Famers Brie and Nikki Bella, has divorced her husband - former disgraced WWE Executive John Laurinaitis. Laurinaitis is currently named in a lawsuit filed by ex-WWE employee Janel Grant alleging sexual abuse by Vince McMahon, Laurinaitis and others. Colace was a recent guest on her daughters' podcast and confirmed the divorce:
“Is it fine to tell everyone that you’re divorced?” Brie asked Colace on the show. “She’s not ‘single ready to mingle’ by no means. She is, I feel like, enjoying her independent time. But people, I think, are curious just to know where you’re at.”
Colace responded:
“I’ll tell you how the experience is from someone that goes through it. You need time, you need silence. And this goes for anyone, we all have our stories, we all have our challenges. So, my thought is this, let yourself feel every emotion because one day life is fine and the next day you’re hit with something that just rocks your world.”
“As a person going through it, you need to feel anger and heartbreak and sadness and recovery. Our body is made to feel emotion and when you tuck an emotion away, it will find its way out. So my recommendation to anyone going through anything challenging: Give yourself some grace, allow yourself to feel all the emotions that you will feel, and sit in silence and appreciate yourself because you will get through this. And if you need outside help to get through it, seek outside help.”
Colace's daughter Nikki Bella is currently going through her own divorce with estranged husband Artem Chigvintsev.
