Silver medalist Erica Sullivan has revealed that singer Camila Cabello had a hand in her pursuing a career as an Olympic athlete.
During an interview with PEOPLE magazine, the 20-year-old was asked about her recent interaction with the Havana songstress.
“I was DM’ing her, I was like, “Girl please notice me.’ Because my press conference kind of blew up on the Today show Instagram and she had posted it on her story but wasn’t responding to my DMs,” she explained.
“I was like, ‘Girl, that is literally me. I am on your story, just respond’ [Once she responded] I had to send her a tweet that I sent.”
Sullivan went on to say that in 2016, the Senorita artist had posted a tweet praising the 2016 Olympic swim team. After the singer’s tweet, the young athlete responded “I guess I’ll become an Olympian now.”
“And five years later after I made the Olympic team, I quote tweeted it and said, “Hey Camila Cabello, I know this is five years too late, but I’m still single,” she said.
“So that was like a long term, five-year tweet chain. And so I sent it to her and she was like, ‘Oh my god, that’s amazing. Where do you live? We need to meet up.”
When asked if Cabello “fueled” her Olympic journey, Sullivan said: “She really did, She honestly did.”
Sullivan, who came out as gay in 2017, shined at this year’s Games when she took home the first ever silver medal for the new women’s 1,500 meter swimming competition.
The soon to be college student also opened up about being a queer role model for LGBTQ+ fans both young and older.
RECEIPTS YALL pic.twitter.com/9iontmqRQe
— Erica Sullivan (@erica_sully) August 1, 2021
This was after the insta follow. Rip headphone users pic.twitter.com/3ifXwj9vXL
— Erica Sullivan (@erica_sully) August 7, 2021
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