Brie Bella’s broken scapula recovery somehow got even worse. What started with her trying to use the bathroom ended with Brie unconscious on the toilet, her children screaming, Bryan Danielson calling 911 and another trip to the hospital.
Speaking during The Nikki & Brie Show, Brie revealed that painkillers had left her severely constipated while recovering from the injury. She estimated she hadn’t used the bathroom in eight to ten days when she finally went out for a proper meal and believes her gluten-free food may have been cross-contaminated. By the time she got home, her stomach was already telling her something had gone badly wrong.
“I get my severe, like, crazy pain in my stomach and all this. And I knew it was coming ’cause, like, it’s weird what my body will start to do, but remind you all, I hadn’t used the restroom for like eight days. If not, maybe I’m at 10. My body went from zero to 1000 on the toilet. Because what happens to me is I get really sick from both ends. So I’m on the toilet and my daughter’s talking to me ’cause she, like, can tell my—like, everything’s wrong.”
Birdie was nearby as Brie started realizing this wasn’t going to be a normal bathroom trip. Brie asked her daughter to give her some space before suddenly feeling like she was about to lose consciousness.
“So then I’m starting to feel like I’m about to pass out. So I’m like, ‘Bryan, Bryan.’ And he wasn’t coming. I’m like, ‘The f***, I’m about to die. Come.’”
Bryan didn’t immediately hear her, so Brie grabbed her phone. Fortunately, Danielson actually had his phone with him and answered. Brie only managed to get a few words out.
“So I call him, thank God I had my phone. And he usually never answers outside. He never answers or has his phone in it. Well, yeah, he never has his phone on him. I go, ‘I’m about to pass out,’ and I just hang up. So I hear him run, you guys, the flat feet out on earth. Um, sure enough, I’m like, timber, pants down on the toilet. Imagine.”
Brie’s nanny was fortunately still at the house and about to leave when Bryan called for help. Because she is studying nursing, Brie joked that she suddenly got a pretty intense first patient.
“So my nanny was there to help. Thank goodness she was actually just about to leave, um, to go back home. And Bryan screamed out for her. So she comes in. So thank goodness she’s in nursing school and I was definitely her first patient.”
There wasn’t much joking going on in the moment. Brie says she was completely unconscious as Bryan and the nanny carried her into bed.
“So they carry me to my bed, our bed. And I am—Bryan calls 911 ’cause I’m incoherent. Like, I had blacked out. Like, I’m just not responding, whatever.”
Nikki immediately asked the obvious question, whether her sister was able to wake up.
Nikki: “Couldn’t wake you up, right?”
Brie: “They couldn’t wake me up. And think, my kids are like screaming. Everyone’s like, ‘What the hell’s going on?’ And I was just taking a shit. And this all goes down.”
By the time the EMTs arrived, Brie was beginning to regain some awareness—but not enough to understand everything her body was doing. That’s when the situation got even more embarrassing.
“So the EMTs come in and I kind of am waking up a little bit, but I have to use—I guess I had to use the restroom. Now I’m at this point, like, not coherent, so I don’t understand. So anyways, long story short, I s*** my pants, but I did not know it.”
The EMTs put Brie into a wheelchair before transferring her onto a stretcher. That presented another problem because she was already dealing with the broken scapula that had put her out of action. By then the emergency had spilled into the front yard, with neighbors watching as Brie was taken away.
“Bryan’s like, like telling them, like, ‘She has a broken scapula. Be careful with her.’ And I guess I kind of screamed out ’cause how they grabbed my scapula. And this is all happening now—that is happening in the front yard. And so when my neighbors were freaking out.”
Brie was taken into the ambulance without Bryan. She was shaking uncontrollably and repeatedly telling the EMTs she was freezing, so they shut off the air conditioning despite becoming hot themselves. Then Brie started waking up enough to notice the smell.
“All of a sudden I kind of wake up and I go—I was like—I go, ‘Oh, it smells like s***.’ And I, like, looked at them and they were, like, looking at me, and I go, ‘Did I s*** my pants?’ And they go, ‘You did, but it’s okay.’ And I go, ‘I s*** my pants.’ And then I’m, like, getting emotional. And then I’m apologizing. They’re like, ‘Stop apologizing.’ I go, ‘But I can feel it.’”
Unfortunately for Brie, realizing what happened didn’t mean she could immediately do anything about it.
Nikki: “But tell them how you had to, like, sit—”
Brie: “Okay, so yeah, sit in your shit for like two hours, more like—”
Nikki: “Yeah, like, try maybe. Yeah. And a while.”
Brie believes the amount of fluid she lost during the episode was ultimately responsible for her passing out.
“Well, I got a lot out. Disgusting. I got a lot out before, which made me pass out. Yeah. Is because how much came outta me.”
She couldn’t remember the exact medical terminology doctors used, but said she was told the fluid loss affected her blood pressure and other functions.
“So I forget, like, the big terms and, like, medical of what happened to my body. But it’s because so much fluid came out. It was like what it does to your blood pressure and all your stuff.”
Getting to the hospital didn’t immediately end the humiliation either. Brie was still disoriented and couldn’t properly clean herself. When Bryan finally arrived, she didn’t exactly ease him into the situation. According to Brie, doctors needed to complete testing before hospital staff could get her cleaned up
“Bryan walks in and I’m just like, ‘I sh** my pants and I’m sitting in my sh**.’ And Bryan’s like, ‘Oh, they didn’t clean you?’ And I was like, ‘No.’ The ER doctor was like, ‘We can’t. We need to run all these tests first and then we can get you cleaned up.’ They didn’t wanna move me and I was so dizzy still and out of it. Yeah. And with the broken scapula, like, there was just so much stuff going on.”
After two bags of IV fluids and medication, Brie finally started feeling well enough to get up and walk into the bathroom. There was still one problem. Her broken right scapula meant she couldn’t properly clean herself. Bryan had to step in.
“So finally after two IV bags and, oh God, some medicine, started to feel better. And then once I could walk, I was able to walk to the bathroom and Bryan had had to clean me. Sick. My poor husband. And think because of my scap, what a great test. It’s like—and the right. He—and I was like, ‘Bryan,’ and he’s like, ‘I have to do this.’ And, um, it was just—it was so embarrassing. So embarrassing.”
Once Brie was safely home and the immediate scare had passed, Bryan apparently decided enough time had elapsed to start making jokes.
“When I finally get home from the hospital, he is like, ‘I guess we can now say mommy poops her pants.’ And I was like—and so it’s now the joke in the family.”
Nikki didn’t even know that part of the story at first. Bryan called her while Brie was hospitalized but conveniently left out what had happened in the bathroom.
“Bryan and I connect on the phone and—’cause I was on my way to the fair with Mateo—and I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ And Bryan, though, doesn’t tell me that Brie pooped her pants. I could tell he was keeping something from me. Like, yeah, he was being polite. He was being very polite. She’s telling story and she goes, ‘And then I can’t believe I s*** my pants.’ And I just respond, ‘You s*** your pants?’ Yeah. And I immediately call her and I’m like, ‘You s*** your pants?’”
Brie can laugh about it now, but the experience initially left her genuinely nervous about going to the bathroom again. Bryan was worried enough that he kept checking on her afterwards. Thankfully, that fear has since eased and the family can joke about what happened.
“The days after that, every time I’m like, ‘Oh, I have to use the restroom,’ Bryan would, like, look at me and he would be like, ‘Come watch me,’ just to make sure. And I’m like, ‘Bryan, now I have, like—I’m freaked out.’ But now all that’s gone. Now we can laugh about it. It’s, you know, gonna be something I have to live with forever.”
Brie was already facing three to six months on the sidelines while her broken scapula heals. Now that recovery has included another ambulance ride and hospital stay after she lost consciousness in her own bathroom.
The embarrassing details have become a family joke, but the moment itself was anything but funny. Brie was unconscious, Bryan couldn’t wake her and her children were screaming as he called 911. This time, thankfully, she made it back home—and now she’s telling the entire story herself.
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