All good things must come to an end.
Angel Reese and Flau’Jae Johnson won a national championship together with LSU just two years ago, but Johnson said, “We’re not friends,” on Monday’s “Breakfast Club.”
Flau’jae Johnson spoke about the end of her friendship with Angel Reese
As LSU looked to defend its championship in the 2023-24 season, drama stirred when the then-teammates’ moms feuded.
Reese’s mom, Angel Webb Reese, wrote on X: “Folks pls do not send me long text msgs with a bunch of grammatical errors it gives me a headache.”
Johnson’s mother, Kia Brooks, responded by taking a dig, saying, “You definitely know about grammar errors when your daughter got a 2.0 or less GPA.”
The relationship between two of the Tigers’ top players then seemed to falter further.
“It was a lot of media, it was a lot of locker room stuff, you know what I’m saying?” Johnson said Monday. “Stuff that [goes] on behind the scenes. But it happens. It happens.”
In September 2024, both sides addressed their fading friendship — but there was no bitterness.
“I still support Flau’jae — we aren’t as close as we used to be,” Reese said. “There are no hard feelings or anything. I wish her the best always, and I’m always going to support her.”
Angel Reese on her friendship with Flau’jae Johnson:
“I still support Flau’jae. We aren’t as close as we used to be. There are no hard feelings or anything. I wish her the best always, and I’m always going to support her.”#WNBA
Johnson echoed the same sentiments, doubling down that the two aren’t as close anymore but saying, “I still support her 1000 percent. I was proud of her, just being in the [WNBA] and breaking records.”
The pair were often called “besties” in their time at LSU, but fast forward to 2025, and Reese currently stars for the Chicago Sky while Johnson is entering her fourth season at LSU.
Whether it was the beef between their mothers, or something else beneath the surface, it won’t discard from the fact that they accomplished the ultimate feat in their time together at LSU.
“That bond that we had, that thing that we did together, winning a national championship, you can never take that away from us,” Johnson said after her comment revealing that the two are no longer friends. “Sometimes stuff happens. You wish it don’t happen, but it do. And you just gotta grow.
“I support her in everything she do. Like, she’s killing in the WNBA,” Johnson continued. “I’m just proud of her.”
