Evelyn Lozada Dishes On Friendship With Jennifer Williams
As fans of the iconic franchise, Basketball Wives, we've watched Jennifer Williams and Evelyn Lozada's friendship go through many stages. The duo, who entered the franchise as besties, faced challenges stemming from romantic relationships to family life and everything in between. This season, their friendship was put to the test again after Evelyn voiced her concerns over Jennifer's marriage to Christian Gold. Evelyn accused Christian of being a scammer and, well, you can imagine how that went.
We caught up with Jennifer, Evelyn, and Jackie Christie ahead of the premiere of season 12, and the trio dished on why they returned for another season, the status of Jennifer and Evelyn's friendship, and the most fashionable of the Basketball Wives set.
'These are my sisters. It's a family. We're dysfunctional at times, but it's a lot of love there and we grow together and we grow forward,' said Jackie Christie, who was seated between Jennifer and Evelyn.
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Speaking of sisterhood, Evelyn opened up about the state of her and Jen's friendship, which has become strained. If you caught the first two episodes of Basketball Wives, Jennifer found love in Christian and married him despite concerns from her friends about his legal history. In one scene, Jennifer claps back, asking Evelyn why she continues to refer to her husband as a felon when Evelyn's daughter, Shaniece Hairston, had a child by rapper The Game, who has a long rap sheet.
Despite the tense interaction, Jennifer and Evelyn were 'cordial' during press time. 'We're grown women,' Evelyn explained. 'We're adults, we may agree to disagree and you know, the show's gonna air, so that's gonna add a whole layer of whatever else is to come because, you know, you get to see what that person was saying, what she was saying, vice versa, so, but I think you know, we're just mature women and we can coexist, we can do this, come, you know, do press, promote the show.'
While Jennifer was mostly quiet, she jumped in to talk about her fashion sense and love for labels, saying, 'I've been a fashion girl since I was young. I always was into fashion and just beauty in general and you know, I guess it feels good that people kind of correlate me with fashion because it's something I love and you know sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong, but that's that's the thing about fashion. But I would say my fashion sense is more like I try and be a little edgy but classic at the same time.'
Catch Basketball Wives on Monday nights on VH1.
Evelyn Lozada Dishes On Friendship With Jennifer Williams: 'We're Grown Women' was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
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