Nikki Bella is tapping out when it comes to her marriage ... because she just filed to divorce Artem Chigvintsev ... only weeks after he was arrested for domestic violence.
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00:00We broke the story that Nikki Bella filed for divorce.
00:02We now have seen the documents.
00:05She's divorcing, of course, Artem
00:06from Dancing with the Stars.
00:08And you know the drama that has been going on between them
00:11and the allegations of physical abuse.
00:14He was arrested.
00:15DA is looking at it.
00:18Arrested for felony domestic violence.
00:20Yeah.
00:21So maybe then there's absolutely no shock
00:24that in the divorce documents, Nikki
00:27is asking for sole physical and legal custody of their kids.
00:33That is such a sign of conflict.
00:36It is.
00:37Interesting from the documents.
00:38Not surprising, but interesting.
00:39She cited the date of separation the same day
00:43as the alleged physical altercation, which
00:46tells you, obviously, that was the precipitating event
00:48for everything that's happened since then.
00:50Again, as you said, sole physical custody
00:53of their child.
00:55We're starting to put the pieces together
00:58of her reaction to the entire event, this tragic event,
01:01honestly, that seems to have broken this family apart.
01:03He is no longer in the family home.
01:05Hasn't been since the incident.
01:08But he is in the area.
01:11We're told staying with friends.
01:13And he's FaceTiming, we're told, with their son.
01:19And we don't know if he's had any face-to-face contact,
01:23but this is going to be what looks like a difficult divorce.
01:28Yeah.
01:29And I don't know that there are going to be a lot of images
01:32of happy co-parenting.
01:34I mean, they can still co-parent,
01:35but that doesn't mean they're going to be there together.
01:38It doesn't seem like this is going to be that kind of divorce.
01:41And we don't know whether he will submit to visitation
01:46or ask for joint custody.