Flau'jae Johnson reveals why her friendship with Angel Reese ended
Flau'jae Johnson reveals why her friendship with Angel Reese ended
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How does LSU's Flau'jae Johnson celebrate her new song with Powerade and so many other accomplishments? She's learning to give herself grace.
LSU star Flau'jae Johnson and former teammate Angel Reese are no longer friends, and Johnson recently revealed what happened to their friendship.
Johnson and Reese spent several seasons together playing for the Tigers, side-by-side as the team earned a national championship in 2023. The pair became synonymous with LSU women's basketball and were seemingly inseparable. However, somewhere along the way, things changed, something that Reese addressed on her podcast last year. "I still support Flau'jae. We aren't as close as we used to be. There are no hard feelings or anything," Reese said at the time. "I wish her the best always. I'm always going to support her."
Days later, Johnson expressed the same sentiment. "Me and Angel, we ain't as close as we used to be, but, like I still support her 1000 percent," she told the New York Post. Now, Johnson is peeling back the curtain even more on what happened between the former friends during a recent interview with The Breakfast Club.
Johnson confirmed that she still supports and even defends Reese on social media, but that their friendship has frayed. "It was a lot of media. It was a lot of locker room stuff. Stuff that go on behind the scenes. But it happens. It happens"
Johnson didn't immediately clear up what may have gone on while the two were teammates, but she did say, "Sometimes stuff happens. You wish it don't happen, but it do." Perhaps, in time, Johnson and Reese can mend their friendship, but for now, things might not get better any time soon.
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