Nastia Liukin decided to ‘fix’ rift with Shawn Johnson after not being invited to her wedding
nypost.comAccess Hollywood that the famous gymnasts had a falling out after the 2008 Beijing Games, but they made up eight years later.
In 2018, the pair spoke about their friendship rift in a YouTube sitdown at Liukin’s Grander Summit in Boston. Liukin explained that she decided to “fix” things with Johnson after learning she wasn’t invited to Johnson’s 2016 wedding to Andrew East.Their path to reconciliation started with Johnson writing an email that she described as “a love letter” to Liukin while sitting in an airport in Dallas, near Liukin’s hometown. “If you don’t respond, I totally get it,” Johnson said in the letter, per NBC Sports. “Just know that I love you.
I miss my best friend. I support you in everything you do.”Liukin said she got the email while at a restaurant in Manhattan.
She had just done an interview with The New York Times where she was asked if she was attending Johnson’s wedding to ex-NFL star Andrew East.
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