“It’s just these roots that are always very strong. And even when I’m talking to you now, I’m like, ‘Oh, it feels totally normal,’ ” Port continued. “Like, I’m just sitting with you in that closet again. So that feels really nice.”
But it hasn’t always been easy, and the friends have hit some bumps in the road along the way. “I had a friend that I had a falling out with that you then became best friends with,” Port said. “I always thought for...all this time, I’ve been telling myself this story that because of that falling-out with this friend, that that tinted how you felt about me.”
Conrad put Port’s worries at ease. “I wish we’d had this conversation because when you said this, I was like, I actually have no idea what you’re talking about,” she said, laughing. “I have so much love for you, and it’s one of those things where, like, I stopped filming, and then I just kinda needed a clean break for a minute tokind of emotionally recover, and I took some time off and then obviously moved out of L.A...I have so many friends that, like, I love catching up with and I get to see them every once in a while.”
Port then got even more candid. “I think I also felt like once the show was over, you—not that you wanted nothing to do with it, ’cause I know that it wasn’t that—but you tried to remove yourself, obviously, a little bit because it was so personal for so many years and you were just, you know, you couldn’t have that magnifying glass on your life anymore,” she said. “I think that I fell into that bucket of ‘Maybe she just doesn’t really want anything to do with me anymore because Im part of the show that she wants to kind of move away from.’ ”
