His romance with someone he loved
I was wondering why they broke up since he mentioned about his break up with his partner during summer in 2006 ( September ), after finished long COI tour.
In that year which was Torino Olympics season, Johnny looked super super busy, US Nationals competition - Olympics - Worlds, - Marshall’s events, then COI tour until August, it was clear to see no time for his private life including for his family.
It must be tough not to meet with his partner and everyone who he loves for such a long time. .
“Alex” could not wait any longer, and was tired of being patient.
Johnny’s attitude to him also changed.
Of course, this is already past, and words like could have, would have, should have things are useless to talk, but.. I do feel like it could have been fixable, and there may have been a solution if they were really in love each other and focused on the solution more than the problem.
By only reading what he wrote, it looked to me Johnny broke the
relationship by himself and got hurt.
Johnny’s first love story reminds me of my first love, first serious relationship.
There is always exception but first love usually doesn’t result in marriage.
And I also often heard that, getting married with someone who is the second best one you have loved, not the one you love the best, will be successful marriage.
Especially for a female. The male will treat her like a princess forever.
Too much loving someone can make one’s feeling unbalanced , so maybe that’s one of the reasons it’s said marrying with a person who you love the second best one can be more balanced when it comes to marriage.
And sounded like Johnny is limiting his thoughts about the love of his life.
He said “Alex” was the first love of his life, and there’s never one like that again. Period.
Whether he thinks he will or he will never, he is right. It’s all depending on him.
It sounded like he doesn’t wish to love anyone more than Alex .
Cat & mouse relationship came to my mind after reading his love story.
Johnny didn’t write much details about it, so I don’t know but it reminds me of a guy who was my co-worker’s friend who couldn’t move on from his ex-girlfriend that had happened several years ago.
While he was with her, he was not treating her nice, and careless for her, and when she left from him, he realized how much he loved her.
The guy has many girlfriends who love him, but his mind is always his ex-girlfriend.
There are always people who are always attracted to someone who they can’t catch their heart easily and chasing.
Johnny : “ As much as I love Alex, the Weirs and skating came first and always would.”
When Johnny was saying these words, during 2004 to 2006, he was the champion in the US men’s figure skating world.
And his life looked successful, he looked happy and shining when I saw the videos of him during the time. ( there was of course ups and downs in his career though. )
I feel by having strong support from someone he loved, his relationship helped his career mentally during the time.
How his best friend Paris Childers and Johnny met each other.
Johnny has said he and Paris were hating each other before they became friends at Premiere, Pop Star On Ice. And I was wondering about that.
It looks to me Johnny has been always Paris’s nurturing person and Paris looks like a easy going trouble little child when he is with him.
Johnny described Paris as
“ In Paris, I found a kindred spirit, someone cold, rude, and abrupt on the outside but soft and shy on the inside. “
I love seeing their conversation.
I guess it’s all about the feeling , not necessarily by the words they say to each other.
There are many superficial friendship, saying nice things in face with classy polite manner, but inside, it can be opposite, most people are careless and saying unkind things in the backstage.
Two-faced people are everywhere.
And people call it as mature acting.
When Paris moved out to NY from the apartment where they both used to live, I agreed with his mom Patti.
It sounded something Paris’s selfishness and inconsideration to Johnny.
But if Johnny feels okay, it’s fine.
One part, about his experience in Bulgaria ,
A pack of wild dogs surrounded the taxi Johnny was in and they were snarling and grinding their teeth ??
What’s that ??
I’m always curious to know about other countries, and one’s experience.
I’ve never been to Bulgaria, so the place Johnny stayed there was one of the most dangerous part of Bulgaria ?
Anyways it sounds very scary… as a lover of travel myself, I will take note about it.
Johnny the way he was writing was hilarious. Lol
USFS, judges and Johnny
According to my Japanese email friend who is a figure skating fan, Japanese technical specialist Shin Amano was also saying Johnny skated better than Daisuke Takahashi , should be placed above Daisuke in Vancouver Olympics.
It was clear to me, politics, unfair judge in Olympics.
I’m actually surprised to see there are many figure skating fans who are believing the scores blindly, saying that’s the system, you just have to understand COP.
Of course it’s over, and it doesn’t come back and can not edit it whether one complains or scream.
I also love those quotes,
“ The result doesn’t lie “
“ You have to take 100% responsibility of your life. - Jack Canfield "
What is happening in the outside world is always coming from our inside world.
Johnny’s performance was wonderful, I feel he was the most impressive in the Free program, for Short program, Johnny and Daisuke.
Overall, I would rank
1. Evgeni Plushenko (some jumps were sloppy but he didn’t fall and almost clean with the content, ),
2. Johnny Weir ( he maximized the content but no quad so I would place him second plus one minor mistake. )
3. Daisuke Takahashi ( the program was ruined for me with the fall, and he stepped out and these should influence artistry score and skating skill score, his PCS were too high for this one IMO),
4. Evan Lysacek ( His SP score was too high without quad, and his PCS.. )
It’s my impression.
And it’s not how they made the COP system.
And I think about why Johnny placed 6th.
6th ??
Johnny skated from his heart, as a result he attracted so many people with his performances.
However, since for a long time he was against USFSA, judges, the COP system, he got what he gave. ( from his emotion )
“ We get what we give “.
That’s the law of nature.
I think it’s a mind game.
The list of Johnny’s picks for people he love,
At the end of the book in the “ Acknowledgements“, he listed many people who he wants to thank to, and for the list of his friend,
“ I’m possibly one of the most difficult friends to have, but my friends make up my inner circle, my confidants, the true loves of my life :
Paris Childers, Christa Goulakos, Nocole Haddad, Michael Dudas, Christopher Gale, Jodi Rudden, Kelly Bailey, Dirke Baker, Bradford Griffies, Drew Meekins, Kendra Goodwin, Tanith Belbin, Irina Slutskaya, Evgeni Plushenko, Marina Anissina, Alexander Uspenski, Rudy Galindo, Sasha and Roman Zaretsky, Ksenia Makarova, Michela Malingambi, and many many more of you who I love to no end. “
I noticed a glaring omition, why is there no Sasha Cohen in the list ?? They have been friends since when they were kids, ( same as Tanith Belbin).
From everything I’ve seen and read about her, Sasha has been nice to him, also she was the one who introduced Tarasova to him.
And what about Elene Gedevanishvilli, for a while he was wearing a pendant gift given to him by her. They looked really friendly for a while.
And why is Rudy Galindo included in the list ??
I know they were friendly during COI 2006 tour, doing throw jump together, and Rudy apologized to him for his insensitive comment in one of the articles and Johnny forgave him when the tour started even though he was upset at him until then.
But recently, since I happened to see Rudy’s unfavorable comments about Johnny’s book and new single “ Dirty Love “ in Rudy’s Facebook , I found he is not thinking Johnny as his friend at all and he doesn’t even seem to have a good impression of Johnny , ( which may be coming from his jealousy ?), I realized Rudy does not consider Johnny his friend.
No surprise that Johnny did not list Stephane Lambiel’s name, but in actuality Stephane seems to be much more nice to Johnny and thinking about Johnny as his friend than Rudy Galindo.
Johnny’s words
“ I love that I learned to trust people with my heart, even if it gets broken. “
So true, it’s good to have beautiful spirit with trust. And I love this part of him as well.
It’s also good to keep note that figure skating is a competition world, so no matter what his competitors said outside, we don’t know what they are thinking inside.
Everyone is like enemy during the competition.
Johnny is beautiful. Charismatic, super talented, super popular, having own reality show, his book published, and his song, many opportunities of media appearances.
Everything he does is dynamic and impact, no wonder he gets many jealousy from his competitors or former skaters or skaters.
Skating fans who are looking down on celebrities, how they see them is often what they are themselves and it belongs to them. IMO.
Overall, I really enjoyed with his book.
It would be great if he would write his bio book again every 10 years.
Great job, Johnny !!!!
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