Nikki Bella thought she was having a pretty normal celebration with Brie Bella and Bryan Danielson. A few glasses of champagne later, she was standing in the dark with a loose dog, a laptop, no wallet and absolutely no idea what she was going to do if her missing phone didn’t turn up.
During The Nikki & Brie Show, Nikki and Brie recalled celebrating after closing on a property for Bonita Bonita. They had dinner plans with Bryan, but he got stuck in traffic for about an hour — leaving the sisters alone with some French bubbles they apparently liked a little too much.
“We were, like, celebrating the fact that we closed on the house for Bonita Bonita, right? Like, we hadn’t had our moment to celebrate yet… And then it was, like, we had planned a dinner with Bryan at Scala before the wine club Zoom at the speakeasy.
And they had this incredible French bubbles… So he pops it open and pours it in, and it was absolutely perfect. It was delicious. We just start drinking away. But Bryan was stuck in traffic, so we had to have, like, an appetizer drink.”
Brie admitted Bryan’s delay didn’t exactly help their situation. They didn’t want to sit at a table during prime time without ordering anything, so their solution was pretty simple — keep ordering.
“Yeah, so Bryan’s traffic time ended up being an hour. So I think when you’re waiting for someone for an hour, I mean, and you have to wait for your entrée, it’s like—and we didn’t want, like, our waiter to feel like we were taking up a table, right? Because it was, like, prime time. So we kept just asking for more.”
Nikki initially thought they could handle another bottle. In hindsight, she admitted that was not her best calculation.
“I’m like, ‘Oh, well, we’ll get one now, and then I’ll have you cork it, and we’ll take one to go.’ And Brie’s like, ‘That’s too much.’ I’m like, ‘No, it’s not. Like, it’s fine.’ But it was.”
The real trouble started on the ride home when Nikki wanted to FaceTime her son Mateo and suddenly realized she had no idea where her phone was.
“And then all of a sudden, we’re driving home, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I need to FaceTime Mateo before he goes to bed.’ Because it was still early, by the way. It was like 7:30 p.m., and we all wanted to be home.
And then all of a sudden, like, ‘Where’s my phone?’ And we can’t find my phone.”
Luckily, Brie had Nikki’s location and tracked the phone back near the speakeasy. Nikki then got an Uber back to retrieve it, which is where her decision-making really started going off the rails.
“So I’m like, ‘Oh, perfect.’ So I get into the car, not with my purse but with my laptop, thinking like, okay, so in case I can’t find it, that’s how I’ll call her. But, like, why didn’t I bring my wallet?
And I’m holding Remy. So I have Remy and my laptop. I sit into the Uber, and then the guy drops me off, and I’m like, ‘Oh, can you just wait one second?’ Because it’s, like, really dark out, and this is when it hit me that I don’t have a wallet.”
It got worse. Her laptop wasn’t connected to Wi-Fi, the Uber driver couldn’t understand what she was asking him, and Remy didn’t even have a leash or collar.
“And then he didn’t speak English, and I was like, ‘Oh.’ And my laptop wasn’t connected to Wi-Fi to, like, translate with him. So I was like, ‘Oh, well.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, bye.’
And I’m like, Remy isn’t on a leash or a collar. I’m holding in one hand my laptop, and then I’m in the dark, and it’s hitting me. What if I don’t find my phone? I don’t have my keys to the speakeasy. I don’t have money.”
Thankfully, the story didn’t end with Nikki stranded in the dark carrying a laptop and a dog. She found the phone sitting in the parking lot.
“But thank goodness, finding my phone right there in the parking lot, and I was like, ‘Thank you, God.’”
The next morning, Bryan apparently had a pretty straightforward assessment of what had happened, as Brie said, “Yeah, Bryan, the next morning, Bryan’s like, ‘You two were drunk.’ I’m like, ‘Nicole was drunker.’” Nikki then started worrying that Bryan thought she was a complete mess. She admitted she was awake around three or four in the morning thinking about how the whole night must have looked.
“I text Brie at three or four in the morning, and I go, all anxiety, because I was just thinking, like, wow, Bryan must think I’m a hot mess, and I’m a mom, and all these things.”
Nikki ultimately admitted she hadn’t let loose like that in a long time, although having Bryan there apparently made the morning-after embarrassment even worse.
“And you know what? Those bubbles were so great, and I had a great time. I haven’t let loose like that in a while at home. So, like, and no better people to do it with than with Bryan and I—you and Bryan.
It almost made it worse because then I’m like, Bryan’s judging me so hard.”
Her attempt to salvage some dignity apparently didn’t help. Brie revealed that Nikki tried arguing that losing her phone actually proved something positive — she clearly wasn’t addicted to it.
“But can I tell you guys something that Nicole said that Bryan and I now are gonna use? She was like, ‘But guys, all this says is I’m not addicted to my phone.’ And then she starts mumbling something else, and Bryan and I looked at each other.”
Nikki wasn’t thrilled to learn that Bryan and Brie had exchanged that look right in front of her, saying, “So you guys, like, judged me in front of my face? This is so rude.” Brie had a slightly different explanation for why Nikki wasn’t looking at her phone.
“You literally were playing music on it. We walk out the car, you dropped your phone. You f****** were drunk.”
And after everything — the champagne, missing phone, Uber ride, loose dog, laptop and 3 a.m. anxiety about Bryan judging her — Nikki somehow managed to walk away with one positive conclusion.
“All right, so yeah, I’m not addicted to my phone.”
Nikki may not have convinced Brie or Bryan that losing her phone was actually proof of healthy screen habits, but at least the phone survived the night. More importantly, so did Remy, the laptop and whatever dignity Nikki had left by the time she finally made it back home.
Do you think Nikki Bella had a point about not being addicted to her phone, or was Brie’s explanation a little more believable? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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