Camila Cabello Reveals the Current State of Her Friendship With Normani Since Fifth Harmony

 Camila Cabello Reveals the Current State of Her Friendship With Normani Since Fifth Harmony

Camila Cabello’s spilt with Normani, her ex bandmate, may just be getting together after they got close again throughout Paris Fashion Week this September.

Camila Cabello is hyping up her girl Normani.

Though the former Fifth Harmony members have spoken openly about the complexity of their relationships with each other after Camila exited the girl group in 2016, the “Havana” singer was thrilled to reveal that she and Normani, 28, have forged a new rapport since bumping into each other at a Paris Fashion Week show in September.

“There would be moments when we’d just be cracking up so much,” Camila told Nylon in an interview published on Dec. 2. “When we have space, we can go back and access that.”

She made the observation that seeing the “Motivation” singer in real life reminded her that Normani wasn’t a coworker or rival, but another grown woman grinding for her dreams.

“The last couple of times I’ve seen her, I say something and she laughs so hard,” Camila added. “We feel like we’re not strangers. We’re returning to the days that we very close.”

Camila Cabello, Sabrina Carpenter

And as the “Shameless” singer explained, much of this newfound understanding comes from reflecting on her time with Fifth Harmony — which also included Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane and Lauren Jauregui — through a kinder lens, particularly when it comes to the way she was handling her anxiety back then.

“I don’t know if I was struggling more than a normal teenager should,” Camila said, “because what’s normal is also hard to say whether you’re famous or not. My barometer was inoperative. It was more than anyone should bear [in that context].”

Camila is also cognizant that she lacked a lot of those “conflict resolution skills” needed for the kind of problems that crept up in the girl group.

“How do you cope with being pushed out? How do you handle jealousy?” she continued. “Because how do you process these things without hurting yourself or hurting other people?”

But thankfully she and her former bandmates—the group officially broke up in 2018—have long ago found their groove and are now in a far better place.

“We’ve been supportive of each other through like DMs and stuff,” Camila told Reuters in 2022. “I’m in a really good place with them.”