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Is Lady Gaga Upset About Her Accidental Engagement Reveal at the Olympics? She Says…<\/p>\n
Shawn Johnson East<\/strong><\/a> is sharing how a famous friendship nearly flamed out.<\/p>\n The Olympic gold medalist got candid about her bond with fellow gymnast Nastia Liukin<\/strong>, with whom she competed on Team USA in the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.<\/p>\n \u201cNastia and I were best friends, training, and at the Olympics we were roommates,\u201d Shawn, now 32, told Access Hollywood<\/a><\/em> in a segment published Nov. 4. \u201cWe were 16 and 18 years old. We were kids. I felt like we were under the spotlight and scrutiny so much to be each other\u2019s top, biggest competitors, and we had figured out on the competition floor how to be best friends and competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the pressures of young stardom soon had a negative impact on their friendship.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the world started kind of interjecting how we should handle it,\u201d the athlete continued, \u201cthey said we should also be each other\u2019s worst enemies as well, so we didn\u2019t speak for eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n