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