Shawn Johnson East titled it “Eight years of drama.”
East and Nastia Liukin, the two U.S. gymnastics stars of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, said they went nearly eight years without talking after the Games but have rekindled their best friendship in the last two years.
“Right after the Olympics, we kind of had like a falling out, but it wasn’t like anything between us,” Johnson East said in a YouTube sitdown from Liukin’s Grander Summit in Boston last week.
“There wasn’t, like, an incident. Like, ever,” Liukin said.
Liukin and Johnson East, who went one-two in the 2008 Olympic all-around, were roommates in Beijing.