John Cena Makes Rare Comments About His Marriage to Wife Shay Shariatzadeh
John Cena recently shared some heartfelt thoughts about his marriage to his wife, Shay Shariatzadeh.
In an interview with WSJ. Magazine, when asked what his most prized possession was, 47-year-old Cena replied, “The relationship with my wife.”
He also spoke about the key ingredients to a happy marriage and relationship in a profile published on Monday, July 8. “Honesty, communication, genuine love, gratitude, and vulnerability have helped us tremendously,” he said.
Cena and Shariatzadeh began dating roughly a year after he and Nikki Garcia called off their engagement. A year into their relationship, Cena proposed to Shariatzadeh while celebrating Valentine’s Day in 2020.
“It was beautiful,” Cena recalled on The Howard Stern Show in February. “I had the ring in my pocket because I was afraid I’d lose it in my bag, by chance, and I [decided to] ask her right now. So, I blew all the special plans and just said ‘Hey, there’s no better moment,’ because there wasn’t — it was so beautiful, still, we were both so open and it just happened right there.”
A few months after their engagement, Us Weekly confirmed that the couple secretly married in Tampa in October 2020.
“Love involves constant effort,” Cena wrote on X days before they tied the knot. “When you are truly ready to let love in and give to love all it needs to flourish, I feel there is no greater, more rewarding connection.”
Cena and Shariatzadeh held a second wedding ceremony in July 2022. “John and Shay didn’t have a proper ceremony the first time; it was a deliberately private affair because they wanted to keep it low-key,” a source told Us Weekly one month later. “This time was different though. They booked out a beautiful place and made it a very special occasion. … They’re just so in love and grateful to have found each other.”
