Brie Bella says she went into a ‘deep depression’ over the response to her knocking out Liv Morgan on Raw

During a recent interview with Digital Spy to promote Total Bellas, Brie Bella went in depth on just how much the negative response to her knocking out Liv Morgan on Monday Night Raw affected her:

“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.

”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.

”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.”

Naturally, it’s being used as a way to promote Total Bellas, where we will apparently get to see more of the story and hear her side of it in a way we haven’t before. I’m still not sure how comfortable I am with how Bella is handling all this. She should be judged harshly for, despite what she seems to think, badly injuring someone in the ring. Every wrestler should.

It’s also at least somewhat troubling that this has become more about Brie feeling bad because some folks said mean things to her online instead of, you know, the actual head trauma Morgan suffered. That it’s now being used to promote a reality show just makes it feel even more grimy.