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Flau’jae Johnson and Angel Reese won a woman’s college basketball national championship together when the two players were with LSU Tigers.
However, it seems that much has changed since then.
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LSU Tigers Guard Flau’jae Johnson, #4, and Forward Angel Reese, #10, answer questions during the press conference for their NCAA tournament Sweet 16 play at MVP Arena in Albany, New York, March 28, 2024. (Gregory Fisher -usa Today Sports)
Reese, who now plays in WNBA for Chicago Sky, opened for her relationship with Johnson in September during an episode of her podcast, “Unapologetical Angel.” She said at the time that the two were not “as close as we used to be” and “there were no hard feelings” towards each other, but the closeness that was once there is just no more.
Johnson added more to it when she performed at “The Breakfast Club” on Monday.
“We are not friends, but I mean that Bond, as we had, the thing we did together and won a national championship, you can never take it away from us,” she said. “And then sometimes things happen. You want it not to happen, but it does. And you just have to grow.
LSU Tigers Guard Flau’jae Johnson, #4, celebrates with Forward Angel Reese, #10, after defeating Virginia Tech Hokies in the semi -finals of Women’s Final Four of the 2023 NCAA Tournament in the American Airlines Center in Dallas on March 31, 2023. (Kirby Lee -usa Today Sports)
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“But I support her in everything she does. She kills in Wnba … I’m just proud of her.”
Johnson agreed that the reason for the split partially had to do with things that happened in the background.
“Yes, it was a lot of media, it was a lot of dressing room, you know what I’m saying? Things going on behind the scenes. But it happens. It happens,” she said.
During the 2023-24 season, when LSU seemed to defend its national title, the mothers came to both Reese and Johnson in a spat on social media. Rees’s mother, Angel Reese Webb, criticized Johnson on social media, which received a response from Johnson’s mother, Kia Brooks, who was aiming for the former Tigers’ Frem GPA.
LSU Tigers Forward Angel Reese, #10, shakes his hands with guard flau’jae Johnson, #4, after a game against Tennessee Lady Vols during the second half of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, January 30, 2023. (Stephen Lew -usa Today Sports)
Reese, the former LSU star, apparently threw shade at Brooks as she trained from school.
