Brie Bella Fell Into a Deep Depression after Injuring Liv Morgan

Brie Bella spoke with Digital Spy promoting Total Bellas and discussed her botched spot from Raw in September where she knocked out Liv Morgan. Bella was working a six-woman tag team match opposite the Riott Squad and legit kicked Morgan twice in the face, knocking her out and giving her a concussion.

The spot garnered heavy reaction online, with a host of wrestling personalities speaking about the spot and Bella being heavily criticized. She told Digital Spy that the incident weighed heavily upon her, which was compounded by the criticism.

When asked whether she felt it was important to have Total Bellas as an outlet to tell her side of the story, Brie said, “Yes, it definitely is, because first off it’s crazy how I’ve been wrestling for 12 years and one of my major mistakes in the ring I get judged so harshly on. We’re not perfect, no one’s perfect, you know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason I was like showcased in such a way of like, this evil person, and ‘look what she’s done’ and I got bullied really bad. I wanted to run into a cave and you’ll see. I don’t think people have ever seen me break down as bad as they will during the whole Liv situation.”

She continued on, saying, “I went into deep depression. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to go back to work. All the horrible things people were saying about me, I felt a thousand times worse than the things they thought of me and I really had to sit down and think to myself, ‘Brie, you’re a mother’ and if Birdie was in this situation would you want her to feel this bad or would you want her to stand up to it and be like ‘Screw you guys?’ I made a mistake and she’s not badly injured and you know what, this is our business, this is what we all signed up for.”

Previewing what Total Bellas will show, she said, “Everyone’s going to see backstage even how Liv and I were with each other. Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much, bad guy, good guy, don’t talk to your competitors, but backstage you’ll see that we’re all really close and it affects us. We never want to go out there and hurt each other so when it happens it’s emotional. But people are going to hear my side of the story and my voice and how it’s about damn time that trolls stopped going on the internet and bullying everyone.”