Nikki García has shed light on the co-patient with his former Artem Chigvintsev and his life after the division in his first interview since his marriage ended.
The 41 -year -old WWE student requested the divorce of Artem, 42, in September 2024, shortly after an alleged altercation between them led to his arrest for domestic violence. The four -year -old son Matteo together share.
Now, in his first interview from the divorce, Garcia opened to Us Weekly About how the test has gone to the test since the test was headlines.
She revealed how she and Chigvintsev have been raising her son together and how she has been explaining the situation to her son.
‘I have used words like divorce, (but) it has only been when it is asked. Everything is that we have our own homes, “he said. ‘You can go see Mom and you can go see Dad. At Christmas, we make sure we were both when we bake cookies from Santa. Matteo went to bed and we were both when he woke up. Because he is our approach, we want to keep those moments.
The former partner now shares her son’s custody, and Garcia admitted that he finds time outside Matteo challenging.
Nikki García has shed light on the co-patient with his former Artem Chigvintsev and his life after the division in his first interview since his marriage ended; In the 2019 photo
‘What is a madness of Carenting is that you get a schedule. It is wild that one day is like, “ok, here are the days you get to your son”, and that is just what you do.
‘For me, that part is incredibly hard. I had never been at our house without him. So, going through those days is extremely difficult because I love being so much with my son.
Fortunately, Matteo has been handling the changes well. Matteo is fine and is not affected. So that makes it easy. He is happy to go to both houses, “he said.
After two years of marriage, the divorce of Garcia and Chigvintsev ended last year.
Now officially single, Garcia says that he can see herself “fall in love again ‘, but he does not imagine that it happens’ in the short term’.
And although it is open to love, a future partner is not legally seen.
‘I don’t want to sign the paperwork again. If I find the right person, I don’t care (a commitment ceremony), but I don’t want to be legally (bound), “he said.
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Garcia’s marriage with Chigvintsev officially ended after two years last year; In the 2019 photo
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Nikki said her sister Brie García thought that she and Artem should have divided a long time ago; The sisters in the 2023 photo
Garcia doesn’t want more children either: ‘I definitely don’t want more children. I’m fine.’
For several months after the arrest, Garcia waited several months before returning to the podcast than co-elbitrion with sister Brie García.
The decision to “disconnect” from the public eye was necessary for Nikki, since it faced the immediate consequences of the dispute.
‘Everything was very shocking, everything. And I think that was a main reason why I knew I had to disconnect. I was in shock. You couldn’t have told me that this would have been the end of my 2024 or my marriage – (I) I would not have believed you. It takes a long time to process something. I needed that disconnection to process everything that happened, “he said.
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Fortunately, 2025 has been “incredible” for Garcia, who said he has met herself as a woman in her 40s; Photo earlier this month
His family also had different points of view on the relationship.
When asked if the division surprised his friends or family, said: ‘Brie has been very vocal. She said she felt that this relationship should end long before she did. She always felt that we were only two different people who tried to work. But my mother was a great defender of (Artem and me). I was actually flying on (the) day (of the incident) to spend the whole weekend with us, “he said.
Fortunately, 2025 has been “incredible” for Garcia, who said he has met herself as a woman in her 40s.
“I feel that I have all this new era to look, and I can choose how I want to be and (where) take it,” he admitted.
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Garcia does not see herself in love with someone new in the short term; Photo with Artem in 2023
While Garcia still has moments of anguish, he is generally optimistic about the future.
‘I still have moments of pain with security, when an event appears, or you drive for something or a song appears. I know in time to improve. But in general, I feel a lot of joy in my heart and I feel very grateful. I have a lot of gratitude to my family, my health, ” he said.
Chigvintsev was arrested and reserved in domestic violence serious crime on August 29 in Youstville, California, after an alleged incident with Garcia, but prosecutors in Napa County finally decided not to present criminal charges in the case.
Since then, Chigvintsev’s lawyer said that DWTS’s student was not the ‘main aggressor’ in the dispute with Garcia and released photos of the injuries that the then spouse of the dancer supposedly inflicted him.
The altercation occurred only three days after the former couple celebrated her two -year wedding anniversary.
Later, Garcia requested divorce and requested without success the exclusive custody of his son Matteo, and the couple granted temporary restriction orders with each other. The restriction orders were ultimately dismissed and their divorce has been completed since then.
In a statement, García’s representative said MY! The duo had “decided to abandon the orders of restriction of domestic violence with each other in an effort to move forward with their lives and effectively copy their son.”
Previously, Garcia admitted that he had been representing his relationship as the perfect marriage on social networks even though it was not so, and that they had been plagued with problems “for a long time” before the dispute that caused his separation.
“In recent months, I disconnected from social networks, from the world, and I knew I needed to disconnect because the first thing is the first, I am a mother and the protection and privacy of my son is the most important,” he said about the podcast which organizes with a twin sister, The Nikki and Brie showIn December.
“I was going to do whatever the most important thing is necessary, and then I just need space for healing, to face the front trauma.”
It has been difficult. It has been really difficult. I have been disconsolate. Sad, ‘he said.
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