You'll Be Fine Nikki

John Cena and his fiance Nikki Bella have broken up a few weeks before their wedding. Sources say he broke up with her. The couple have been together for a long time, they lived together and even had a reality show together. Since the official announcement, more details have come out about their relationship like the fact that John had Nikki sign a 75-page contract before she moved in with him which refers to her as a house guest . . . (if she didn't run for the hills at that red flag, then sorry but Nikki is stupid).

None of this surprises me. I met John Cena when he was in Dubai for the release of his animated film Ferdinand. I had never heard of him before and did some research and thought he was interesting in a "The Rock" wannabe kind of way. When I arrived to the interview there were a whole bunch of other journalists waiting in the green room for five minutes with John Cena. There was a gentleman in a suit talking to two other people in suits in a voice loud enough for everyone on the whole floor to hear. The man might have been John Cena's manager. The topic of his one sided conversation was "The Genius of John Cena". He assured everyone who was listening that John Cena's fan base is huge. John Cena is the smartest man he'd ever met. If one was to give John Cena an idea he would look at it from a 360 degree angle and take it where no one would ever think of taking it. I didn't know what any of that meant in the practical sense, but I listened, interested to meet this modern day Leonardo da Vinci-Arnold Schwarzenegger hybrid.

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When I was lead by one of the PR girls to meet John Cena, he was sitting alone in a room wearing a suit that looked like it was about to rip at the seams if he sneezed. John Cena was polite, professional, direct, and answered all my questions about his film like he was reading lines from a script. And though it was well disguised, his voice was monotone, his expression was bored. Then I asked what it took for him to convince his fans, agents, movie directors, the world that he wasn't a wrestler or a reality star but that he was good enough to be a movie star. John Cena's eyes lit up and for a few short movements he transformed into a caricature of a motivational speaker schooling me on the importance of working through being continuously rejected.

Just as the PR girl told me that I had to wrap up, I asked John Cena how the wedding prep was going. He stiffened for a second and the dull look in his eyes came back and he answered me in what I can only describe as a military tone. He assured me preparations were going ahead and that he would be there at the wedding. He said it so seriously that I thought it was weird and I was glad that the interview was over. I wished him good luck and left with the impression of a man who was incredibly determined to work hard and get what he wanted more than a man who was  likeable - unless you consider determination a likability factor then he's a prodigy.  I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of him. And as for Nikki, I really think she got a lucky escape.