WWE's reality show Total Divas will return for Season 3 Part 2 on Jan. 4 and Natalya recently opened up about what fans can expect, whether the show is scripted and more.
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Natalya, who is a one-time Divas Champion, spoke with the U.K.'s Mirror and gave insight into the emphasis on her and her real-life husband Tyson Kidd heading into this season.
"I never really thought I had marriage problems, I thought I had a perfect relationship with TJ, then I started doing Total Divas and I realized, 'wait a minute, my relationship's not perfect at all,'" Natalya told the site. "I watched the show back and it's been very therapeutic for me. My mom watched it, and TJ's mom watched it and she was like, 'I don't like this, I don't like the D-word.' Nobody, including us, knew how bad our relationship was until we did the show, filmed it and watched it back. It's been very therapeutic for me to do it and address it."
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Natalya then stuck to the storylines when asked whether or not the show is scripted as she claimed the problems she's had with Kidd are real.
"I'm glad you asked that question," she said. "There was some speculation from people, and I took it as a compliment because people didn't really want to think TJ and I had problems because they liked us as a couple. Some people were saying, 'Oh, it's all fake, Nattie and TJ aren't fighting.' I thought it was touching. I wish that was the case, you don't realize how real things are until you go through it."
She added: "I realized doing the show we're really disconnected. I've known him for 17 years. Our relationship started going up in flames and it was hard to watch it and experience it in front of the entire world, and have people go, 'Oh, it's not real' and have my mom say, 'I know you're crying over something, those are tears are real, I know my daughter.' I'm still working through it with TJ."
Natalya, who said she enjoys working with the NXT stars and also touched on her match with Charlotte on Monday Night RAW, spoke about WWE CEO Vince McMahon's comments regarding people on the roster having to step up and grab the "brass ring."
"When Vince McMahon made that brass ring comment, I think it was cool, it got everyone talking," she said. "It allowed us to analyze and say, this is what's good, this isn't working, maybe I'll speak up, maybe I'll be more aggressive. But when I stop to look at it, I don't think Vince McMahon meant every single solitary person that's in the WWE right now. I think he meant that several people can grab the brass ring harder and I think when we look at Total Divas -- I've done 40 episodes -- I've put my life out there in ways I don't think is even normal, and I've been willing to do this to help not only elevate the Divas division but show a human side to what we do. What we do in the ring is such a small part, we do so much - we work with different charities, we have anti-bullying campaigns, we work with sick kids."
She continued: "For us girls, for the original cast members and the new cast members, for us to put our lives out there on blast for everybody, if that's not grabbing the brass ring I don't know what is. I don't think just anybody could do a reality show and put their life out there and have no qualms about going, hey, I'm sharing something with you guys I've never shared with anybody and I'm doing it in front of the entire world. That, to me, is grabbing the brass ring."
Total Divas returns with the second half of Season 3 on Sunday, Jan. 4 on the E! Network.
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