“This Is What I Wanted”: Olympic Athlete Breezy Johnson Hit Back At People Who Suggested Her Fiancé “Stole Her Moment” By Proposing After She Won Gold

Last week, Olympic jock Breezy Johnson got engaged to her partner, Connor Watkins, aft winning golden successful the women's downhill Alpine skiing.

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Connor projected successful front of onlookers astatine the decorativeness enactment of her past race, and Breezy celebrated the milestone with a saccharine post that read, “Hey guys... conscionable Connor! My ex boyfriend! And existent fiancé!!! 💍 Thank you to everyone who made this infinitesimal possible. It was everything I ever dreamed of. Kind of similar Connor!”

Sadly, the mates faced a batch of vigor aft Connor proposed, with respective radical accusing him of stealing Breezy’s shine.

Breezy addressed the backlash successful a station connected Threads a fewer days ago, writing, “Guys! When your woman asks to get engaged astatine the Olympics to harvester the 2 loves of her life... listen. Thanks for armchair qbing my infinitesimal but possibly bash much probe than speechmaking 1 headline! Thanks!!!”

Over the weekend, she followed up, “Sorry to each the couples that had fights connected Valentine's Day due to the fact that my Fiancé projected to maine astatine the Olympics. But besides 💁🏻‍♀️ if helium wanted to helium would.... (sorry not sorry!)”

Now, Breezy is acknowledging the disapproval much directly, telling CNN successful a caller interrogation that she’d antecedently fto Connor cognize it had “always” been her imagination to get engaged astatine the Olympics.

“I did person an inkling that helium was gonna bash that,” she told the quality outlet. “I had suggested that it was ever benignant of my imagination to get engaged astatine the Olympics, so, yeah. He planned the full happening out, and it was a precise awesome infinitesimal with each of my teammates and friends and household around. It was beauteous special.”

Breezy besides told USA Today of the hatred she and Connor received, “I deliberation there’s a batch of armchair quarterbacks retired determination that were like, ‘Oh my Gosh, he’s stealing her moment!’ There were radical who seemed to deliberation that helium did it portion I was lasting connected the medals stand.”

“Let’s not yuck different people’s yum,” she said, clarifying: “This is what I wanted… He wasn’t stealing anything.”

“For me, it was a truly chill infinitesimal to bring the 2 loves of my beingness together,” she explained, adding, “Just due to the fact that it’s not what you want… doesn’t mean you person to marque a remark astir it.”

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