WWE star Nikki Bella this week revealed the discovery of a benign cyst on her brain forced her retirement from wrestling.
Bella, 35, explained to Jimmy Fallon on Wednesdays broadcast of The Tonight Show shed planned to return to the ring to compete for the tag titles following surgery on her neck. But a medical check revealed shed herniated the disc above where she had the surgery and had all this inflammation around the metal.
And then I have a cyst on my brain, she added. So they were like, Youre done. No more, youre out. So I didnt get a choice.
Bella, who regularly appeared in the ring with her twin sister Brie Bella, commented further on the diagnosis in an interview that TMZ Sports published online Thursday:
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Its super scary, of course, its just something youre never gonna hear. But Im so grateful, Im grateful for my health, Im grateful that its benign. Its something that you have to watch out for, you know, the rest of your life because you never know how it can change. But Im definitely grateful because I know people go through it worse. It was definitely really scary and it also sucks at the same time because it just keeps me out of the ring.
Check out The Tonight Show interview above.
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